"Inhabitable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stabling for their mules. But to remain in a paramo during the night, even though thus protected, is often a painful ordeal. Only for two or three months of the year—November, December, and January— are they inhabitable by human beings; and it is during those months alone that the huts can be erected or the fuel stored for the ...
— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston
... off first, become inhabitable, and, as the sun contracted and they radiated their own heat, become refrigerated and left behind by the retreating sun. Of course the outer planets would move slowly; but as that portion of the sun which gave them their motion ...
— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren
... modern capital. He had seen Paris transformed by the Second Empire; he had seen Berlin enlarged and embellished after the German victories; and, according to him, if Rome did not follow the movement, if it did not become the inhabitable capital of a great people, it was threatened with prompt death: either a crumbling museum or a renovated, ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... golden gushes from its placid bosom and nestling isles. As they gazed on the enchanting scene before them, it seemed as if nature had reserved all her beauties for this chosen spot, denying to the vast desert they had traversed fertility enough to make it inhabitable. ...
— The American Family Robinson - or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West • D. W. Belisle
... the last campaign personally commanded by Major General Jan Christian Smuts, the former Boer commander, and resulted in giving the British control of all the coastline and the inhabitable portion ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller |
