Significados de unprocurable em inglês

Trent was flatly told that the labour they required was absolutely unprocurable.

You starve to death: good food is unprocurable save at prohibitive prices.

In the absence of liquefaction at such points, the nourishing gruel is unprocurable.

We felt very anxious: milk was almost unprocurable, other comforts nil.

Everything could be managed except the cream, which was unprocurable.

Luxuries are unprocurable, but no sensible man will go to a new country expecting luxuries.

Plato proposes to substitute some "unprocurable" beast, perhaps a giraffe or an elephant.

I have about half-a-ton myself, which, until a few minutes age, would have been quite unprocurable.

These garments (I indicated them again) will only be unprocurable because they are in your possession.

Meanwhile, sugar has been almost unprocurable.

This is a reprint of a book that has been out of print and quite unprocurable for many years.

A suit of black velvet, an extremely expensive and almost unprocurable material, brought the courtier's pale features into relief.

It was used chiefly, like Gobelins Tapestry, to make very costly presents, otherwise unprocurable, for grandees and crowned heads.

Joe had scoured Chicago for the alcoholic commodities now practically unprocurable, and returned in triumph to the couple's furnished room.

But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable.

That particular edition (he assured Miltoun) was quite unprocurable-hehad never sold but one other copy, which had been literally, crumbling away.