And yet this tough impracticable heart / Is govern'd by a dainty-finger'd girl ; […]

H. is a person of extraordinary health & vigor, of unerring perception, & equal expression; and yet he is impracticable, and does not flow through his pen or (in any of our legitimate aqueducts) through his tongue.

They were not allowed, of course, to join us in the sitting room, partly that their practice might not be disturbed, but principally, that I was looked upon as an utter impracticable.

The strict constructionists had dwindled to a few impracticables, headed by John Randolph.

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