Manuscripts described as unobtainable by collectors may be found together with more ordinary books.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

I can see the "ambitions and fantasies strong enough to brush aside the doubts," thing, but not the "unobtainable" bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rejection, Where is Thy Sting?] Reference

For many, retirement becomes an unobtainable dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [VIAGRA BABIES: OLDER PARENTS, YOUNGER KIDS] Reference

Such results are unobtainable by the usual methods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference

HAMMER: But you realized that that was unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2006] Reference

The facts regarding size of classes were unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects] Reference

Old Professor Kelstein had said the paper was unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killing Floor]

Food is unobtainable and Trotsky has only one pair of trousers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919] Reference

We will ask silly questions and demand unobtainable information.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Druids]

Lumber was almost unobtainable so these structures were largely of logs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

"I daresay -- at our time of life -- leisure hours seem so unobtainable ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Violists] Reference

George Clooney comes to mind as the unobtainable bachelor to a lot of women.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2006] Reference

The information should be of compelling interest, unobtainable by other means.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2008] Reference

In Poland I would find everything that had been unobtainable in Germany for years!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commandant of Auschwitz]

It instead seems an unobtainable goal, something she treats with longing and disdain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucinda Straight Up] Reference

A-- I've heard there's a possibility of some unobtainable demands that they've started.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2008] Reference

"It seems a shame to think of all that rich stuff lying there neglected and unobtainable.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

By this means it is possible to realise a minuteness and accuracy unobtainable in wider fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

This is very good made with 5 egg yolks and 1/2 cup thin cream if whipping cream is unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Crisco] Reference

The 16 mm film, A Story of Deception, captures a mesmerizing and unobtainable mirage on the horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog Watch> Francis Alys: A Story of Deception On Daily Serving (VIDEO)] Reference

It was too obvious that he had stayed at home, not to be with her, but merely because his sitter was unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest Builder] Reference

But, as such facts were unobtainable, it is permitted here simply to recognize the possible influence of this factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects] Reference

In cycling, the best use of stretching is to achieve a position that might otherwise be uncomfortable or unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [VeloNews Training Center: What’s the best way to stretch for cycling?] Reference

And, we repeat that there are cases where NO military force may be able to succeed if the objectives are unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference

Another of their little jokes has been to serve each man with his raw meat for him to cook when wood has been unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference

A default would boost borrowing costs or make credit unobtainable for other Pennsylvania municipalities and school districts.    From Wordnik.com.  [State aid advance helps Pennsylvania city avoid debt default] Reference

In this way much valuable material is preserved in print, when it would otherwise remain forever unpublished and unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs] Reference

The road can be read as representative of a border and the unobtainable mirage as the often out-of-reach goal of border crossing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog Watch> Francis Alys: A Story of Deception On Daily Serving (VIDEO)] Reference

In the case of the more elaborate and costly articles, it may enable one to possess things which otherwise would be unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things To Make] Reference

= -- In case a physician is unobtainable the patient must be put to bed in the most airy, sunshiny room, which should be heated to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference

Accordingly, on March 17th, every man wore a piece of green, since shamrock was unobtainable, and the tents were decorated with boughs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference

So during all the period I lived at Fort Duncan and its sub-camps, nearly sixteen months, fresh vegetables were practically unobtainable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The government has set the legal -- and unobtainable -- greenback at 1,600 bolivares, but on the black market it's at least a third higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out For Revenge?] Reference