"Incapacitating" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... duelling pistols, and an exchange of bullets to the point of incapacitating one or ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg
... other duties requiring intense mental application. At that time he began to manifest occasional symptoms of cerebral exhaustion; was unable to endure mental exertion with same force as theretofore. These attacks, commencing in 1864, supervened at various times until 1868, sometimes incapacitating him for business for a few days at a time, and accompanied by intestinal catarrh, flatulence and gastric disturbances—probably the results of loss of nerve-power. In 1868, having been subject for a time to extra heavy mental strain, he was completely prostrated, and compelled to retire from ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig
... no char-a-banc or a motor service to Cranmere Pool and Yes Tor?" There, the equivalent question is: "Shall us hae money to go through the winter? Shall us hae bread and scrape to eat?" Here, a man wonders if in the strong moorland air some slight non-incapacitating ailment will leave him: illness is inconvenient and disappointing, but not ruinous. There, Tony wonders if the exposure and continual boat-hauling are not taking too much out of him; if he is not ageing before his time; if he will not be past earning before the ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds |
