He would have preferred a man, but men were unprocurable in war-time. |
Trent was flatly told that the labour they required was absolutely unprocurable. |
It has long been unprocurable, and is constantly enquired for. |
Spanish coffee is expensive and bad, cocoa we did not find, and butter and jam were unprocurable. |
Everything could be managed except the cream, which was unprocurable. |
But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable. |