We hiked in and found it barely alive, but unable to move its hind legs.
What I wanted to say but found myself unable to explain (for it would have sounded too strange) was that I learned a good deal about moving through grief from some trees I once knew.
I had been taught to judge, reject and condemn these friends, but found myself unable to do so.
Taking her body to the woodshed, Ash tries to force himself to dismember her with a chainsaw, but finds himself unable to do it and buries her instead.
Last month more than 14 million Americans were unemployed by the official definition — that is, seeking work but unable to find it.
Most students are excluded from official figures, as they are classed as "economically inactive" – people who are not currently in work, or looking for work – though any student actively looking for full-time or part-time work but unable to find it would be classed as unemployed.
When I was writing my own smoke-cured novel, The Butt, I went looking for the line to use as a frontispiece quote, but unable to find it had recourse to this one instead: "Who knows, whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined?
For 34 of the last 39 years, annual average black unemployment, a measure of those actively looking for work but unable to find it, has sat at or above 11percentt, according to federal data.
Only 8% of the wealthy agree that the government should provide jobs for those willing to work but unable to find it, compared to 53% of the general public, a 45 pecentage-point difference.
In 1985, he wanted a console table, and, being the sort of chap who knows just what he wants but was unable to find it, he ended up having to make it himself.
