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Towards midnight the three men, carrying bags containing their disguises enter the Impasse.
This indeed appeared to be the only practical solution of the impasse which had been reached.
According to them, the investigation into the activities of that ship had come to an impasse.
We walked through one crooked corridor after another till we came to what looked like an impasse.
However, the impasse continued: neither instrument allowed scientists to crack the nuclei of the heavier elements.
"We've debated the problem of causes for nearly two hours and seem to have reached an impasse."
Granting that she was really intelligent, an acute observer, why had she drifted into this impasse?
The issue from the present impasse will, in all probability, proceed from below, not from above.
At last matters reached an impasse, for the Council began to throw out Supply and Revenue Bills.
Of course this brought matters to an impasse, which could be solved only through appeal to the King.
Arrived at an impasse, she altered the position of one card, took back another, and went on playing.
Finally, recognizing an impasse and rattling a warning as it did so, the snake started crawling away.
After a measure of silence, so filled out, consciousness of the impasse brought in a new element, as stimulus.
Question after question he fired at Sir William, rather as though that gentleman were responsible for the impasse.
There was no way through the impasse, for they, on their side, were of just the same opinion.
His impulse had carried him into an impasse from which he could not possibly retreat with dignity.
It would take a clever man to find his way safely out of such an impasse as confronted Joachim.
This was the impasse we had apparently reached when the war occurred; it is where we still are.
Try as he would, he could see no way out of the hideous impasse into which fate had thrust him.
"The letter is easy to conceal," was the reply, "and the safe yonder is an impasse without your assistance."
Anyway, the poet of mysticism appeals from the impasse of pure reasoning to the voice of the inner oracles.
Beyond that, organized religious thought has not gone; and now it finds itself fronting science in an impasse.
If a nation's destiny were really bound up with the politics reported in newspapers, the impasse would be discouraging.
Meanwhile, the three men walked a little away from the gate, but remained on that side of the Impasse.
The one lamp in the impasse showed her my uniform, and she breathed like one who had been running.
That would finish Walton; affairs were at too delicate an impasse for him to risk having to defend himself now.
Let us think over the case, and I feel sure that some way out of this apparent impasse can be found.
Partly reassured, Sir Tancred returned to his brooding: he was angry with himself because he felt helpless in an impasse.
When he came to an impasse, he howled through the house for her, like a lost child wailing for its mother.
They made their way to the bow and the stern, in the hope of discovering some way out of the impasse.
In this instance, so far from there being no strategy in the so-called impasse, it was wholly dictated by strategy.
It is to this impasse in the confusion and antagonism of the present moment of transition that sex-differences are bringing us.
If I come to the slightest impasse, I've learned to stop, and look around and see what needs to be done around the house.
Music on keyboards had reached an impasse before a person of genius thought of using his thumb as well as his fingers.
Once in his political career, the Senator had faced an apparent impasse and had wormed out of it through tolerant laughter.
The Chinese have long delighted in ingenious formulae with which to meet de jure impasses, while proceeding de facto in quite another direction.
There was a moment of impossible impasse and strain before, with a realized effort, he forced himself to express a due delight.
I am heart-broken to see you so wretched, and feel like hitting out right and left to set you free from this awful impasse.
Even the most desperate of spies draws the line at murder, unless he finds himself in an impasse with no other way out.
In whichever direction the line moves, the arrangements that have served during the impasse of the past year will no longer answer.
The impasse with Zoe still continues, and my peace of mind has been still further disturbed by the actual arrival of Rosa.
And perceiving that in this impasse his last hope of discovery had foundered, the writer let his head fall on his chest.
Instead of accepting the gap of understanding that had evolved, I projected the frustration which came from the impasse upon petty outlets.
There was great danger that in ignorance of our position we might run into an impasse in this region of great rivers and lakes.
If she were ever to get out of her present impasse it would be thanks to the unknown woman she was hastening to meet.
In face of this impasse between the secretary and the Army staff there slowly evolved what proved to be a new racial policy.
If stones are left on either side, but not enough to proceed, then there is an impasse, and the game must be played over again.
Of course, in this impasse of the locked windows, my men and I had had some excuse for our superficial examination of the roof.
The thing we were trying to do was to find the old lady, and, after all, here we brought up against the same impasse.
We can appreciate that impasse if we consider the inability of the sex-novel or play to suggest any form of conduct which is immoral.
What we possess anybody can get in a morning's walk; we find that we have travelled a long distance, and have come to an impasse.
She may be able to realize better than he that his trade presents an impasse, has in it no possibilities of development, personal or financial.
"Cousin," she said deliberately, "you must find a way out of this impasse." "You must find a way out of it," she reiterated firmly.
If matters there were really serious ... well, at all events they could not be much more serious to him than the present impasse.
Today's reader observes pretty quickly in this disaster that such an impasse is less likely to occur these days because women have more rights.
He had not seen the impasse in which he had engaged himself, and for a few seconds he could not think what to say.
Wilson were looking for a fresh way out of the impasse into which his attitude on the question of the submarine campaign has led him.
If I could only give up Hugh in such a way that he would have to give me up, this girl might help us out of our impasse.
A broad, sanded path ran between the low picturesque buildings, and so the carriage was obliged to draw up at the entrance to the Impasse.
It was strange how much harm a man could do without being a particularly bad fellow, and what an impasse he could get himself into.
Now these passengers all had some interest in seeing the boat bailed, and most hoped that this impasse could be overcome to the satisfaction of everyone.
As a natural result the practice of this art drifted into an impasse, from which the organization of the barber-surgeons seemed the only logical means of escape.
To the Commander of the squadron and to all his officers, to say nothing of the men, it became very apparent that events had reached an impasse.
The point which it is important to make is that, if any escape is to be made from the present impasse, the problem must be approached in another way.
The difficulties that lie between us and such a peace are very great; far be it from me to minimize them, or blink the seeming impasse of the situation ahead.
He always managed to call when I was not at home, but once or twice I saw him leave the villa in the Impasse just as I entered it.
Here was a way out of their impasse, and they took it as such, though without any show of enthusiasm, and Rupert was gracious enough to accept their nomination.
Now it almost seemed to him as if he were come to an impasse beyond which he could no longer pursue that course, but must halt and declare his side.
They know perfectly well that it is they alone who are responsible for the present impasse, and that even if they come out alive they are all hopelessly compromised.
It is only in order to sustain his a priori case for the steel weapons that he finds himself forced into the logical impasses to which I have drawn attention.
It was the old impasse at which we had arrived a dozen times before, only the wretched involvement seemed to be adding coil upon coil with the passing of time.
To all appearances the adventure on which he had started out had brought him to an impasse, a blind alley, from which there was no favorable issue of any kind.
Your Majesty's House of Laity sees things differently: I am bound, therefore, to submit to your Majesty certain important proposals for the relief of the impasse at which we have now arrived.
By this piece of legislation the Liberals sought to provide for themselves a mode of escape from the impasse in which the opposition of the Lords so frequently has involved them.
She felt herself in such a hopeless impasse that she had not even the strength to beat her hands against the walls that had so completely closed her in.
Somehow, he felt sure, the tangled threads would weave into a pattern that he could solve, but he had to admit that right now he was up against a seeming impasse.
There is no single path that leads to breakdowns, the way thither is rather a tangled maze of paths, along which people stumble blindly until they suddenly find themselves at an impasse.
One redeeming side of it, however, was that he did not think they would be in any immediate danger, and it would be hard if he could not find some way out of the impasse.
In dealing with a reality like personality, the intellect will first attempt to handle the subject with the same processes that it employs for inert matter, therefore it ends in a logical impasse.
On the other hand, she did not blame him, as so many people in her place would have done, for the reckless folly which had at length landed him in such an impasse.
Their windings had brought them, after all, to an impasse, and the only retreat was through the chamber of the skulls, where perhaps the savage beings of the underground vault were already collected.
I could not talk to you about the military situation, even if I knew more than you do, which is not the case, but I think it is clear that we have reached something like a temporary impasse.
Presently we reached what looked very much like an impasse at the end of a valley, the sides of which had gradually converged until the channel was then scarcely wider than the ponies were broad.
Try as he might, plan as he could, he found no way out of the impasse so long as the solution of it was left entirely to him, and the woman was determined to be but a passive instrument.
We picked our way wet-foot much of the day, and towards evening came to a complete impasse in the middle of the river, with open water in front and on one hand, and new thin ice on the other.
I kept a tight grip on my nerves and refused to even let myself think what an impasse I'd be facing if my talk with Arms Custodian Sherwood didn't bring the kind of results I was counting on.