impayable

Another famous "impayable" was the coffin-cart man who came on occasions to drive the men to their last resting place.

Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

Both the Colonels tried to tell her; but it was the younger one with the moustache (the one who had said that Jimmy was _ "impayable" _) who satisfied her.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

I think the head must have belonged to some heathen - a Christian could not have looked so; then there was the editor of the 'Liverpool Times,' who read the 'Athenæum' with a grim, 'tomahawk look,' and there was a small specimen of Young England who talked incessantly in a way altogether 'impayable' till his uncle, a mild, elderly man, said: 'All peas grow above their sticks' - which set me off laughing till I had the comfort to see the Young England fairly out of countenance.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

“Non il est impayable,” the Countess said, turning to her husband.

Resurrection 2003

And the lean, iron-grey Colonel with the ferocious moustache remarked in an austere, guttural voice, "_Il est impayable -- lui! _"

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

If you knew them, there was never a Pett that was not _impayable_.

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The rector himself was _impayable_ in his songs, "Wink to me only," and "Tango -- Tangoing -- Tangone!"

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 Various 1898

It reads flat, but as she said it, it was impayable.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

"_Non il est impayable_," the Countess said, turning to her husband.

Voskresenie. English Leo Tolstoy 1869

Arkady Pavlitch speaks in a soft, agreeable voice, with emphasis and, as it were, with satisfaction; he brings out each word through his handsome perfumed moustaches; he uses a good many French expressions too, such as: _Mais c'est impayable!

A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850