And, mind you, there is something very heroic-very impracticably heroic, but magnanimous all the same-in your idea that you might abandon all the popularity and position you have won as a mere matter of sentiment.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
He was just as impracticably courteous as his father and Lady Price shrugged her shoulders and hoped.
"The Pillars of the House, V1"
Charlotte M. Yonge
It wasn't his fault that the standard of efficiency in the Army was so impracticably high, nor that he had been packed off to try his luck in Canada with the disadvantage of being a remittance-man, nor that, at the age of twenty-seven, when his father had died, he had had to turn to and compete for this job or that with a horde of capable youngsters years his juniors and with fewer hampering decencies.
"A Crooked Mile"
Oliver Onions