In truth, even strong steady lights are
inadmissible. The huge and unmeaning glass chandeliers, prism-cut, gas-lighted, and without shade, which dangle in our most fashionable drawing-rooms, may be cited as the quintessence of all that is false in taste or preposterous in folly.
The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was
inadmissible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.
So long a time has elapsed, you must know, since I abated of the ardours of self-inquiry that I revert in vain (through many rusty doors) for the beginning of this change in me, if changed I am; I seem ever to see this same man until I am back in those wonderful months which were half of my life, when, indeed, I know that I was otherwise than I am now; no whimsical fellow then, for that was one of the possibilities I put to myself while seeking for the explanation of things, and found to be
inadmissible. Having failed in those days to discover why I was driven from the garden, I suppose I ceased to be enamoured of myself, as of some dull puzzle, and then perhaps the whimsicalities began to collect unnoticed.
"Your explanation is ingenious, my dear companion," replied Barbicane, "but
inadmissible."
Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly
inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Without this, there would be no responsibility whatever in the executive department an idea
inadmissible in a free government.
No part of the arrangement, according to some, is more
inadmissible than the trial of impeachments by the Senate, which is alternately a member both of the legislative and executive departments, when this power so evidently belonged to the judiciary department.
The fact that Madame should die before herself perplexed her mind and seemed contrary to the order of things, and absolutely monstrous and
inadmissible. Ten days later (the time to journey from Besancon), the heirs arrived.
The captain thought that it was the king who had just opened it himself; and this supposition was not altogether
inadmissible, considering the state of agitation in which he had left Louis XIV.
David, I am afraid your scheme is
inadmissible. I say nothing against your friend, Mr.
The dictionary is, I fear,
inadmissible for the same reason.
For that matter, so great a gap separates these ape-men from the primitive animals which have survived upon this plateau, that it is
inadmissible to think that they could have developed where we find them."