She seemed to have divined an almost insurmountable obstacle in Dorn's will.

The difficulties in the way of accomplishing her object seemed thus almost insurmountable.

But an almost insurmountable difficulty confronted the boys from the first.

His standards, high in everything, are almost insurmountable when it comes to himself.

The difficulty of dealing with drunkards and harlots is almost insurmountable.

The difficulties of holding any intercourse with them seemed almost insurmountable.

Then, too, the physical difficulties of the country were almost insurmountable.

But there were two obstacles, I may say almost insurmountable ones.

A novel would have presented almost insurmountable difficulties; but a work of philosophy!

The urge to bellow at this poor sexton was almost insurmountable.

The obstacles that stand in its way and obstruct its path seem almost insurmountable.

State-employed forensic scientists complain it is an almost insurmountable task.

But the difficulties of these early days were almost insurmountable.

These obstacles become almost insurmountable when the country is difficult.

After a while he came to a wall of rocks perpendicular and almost insurmountable.

But there again a difficulty, almost insurmountable, is met with.