Unable to speak clearly, the young Margaret referred to her friend Barrie as her " fwendy-wendy ", resulting in the use of the name Wendy, which was coined for the book.

Unable to speak, he is ignored and mocked by the other people.

Unable to speak immediately following his surgery, McCleary sent a written note to his teammates explaining he was all right while his surgeon revealed that he came " as close ... as you could come " to dying in the moments after he was struck.

Unable to speak English, they inadvertently attack some civilians and the Justice League.

Unable to speak in detail, she writes LuLing a long letter explaining her reasons, but LuLing does not read it to its end.

Unable to speak, Flight Sergeant Aaron urged the bomb aimer with gestures to take over the controls.

Unable to speak, Ralph communicates with only grunts and leers.

Unable to speak Egyptian, and unable to read hieroglyphs, the Greek visitors were eager and uncritical believers of whatever the priests, translators, or guides told them, and they were glad to note down that their Greek civilisation descended from an even more ancient one.

Unable to speak, Bernardo uses gestures to communicate.

Unable to speak, he uses gestures to communicate and pretends to be deaf as well as mute, the better to overhear the plans of Zorro's enemies.

Unable to reconcile his beliefs with the death of the child, Paneloux becomes sick and refuses to be treated.

Unable to stop in time, Westcott's jib boom became entangled with Tonnant < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s shroud.

Unable to afford the services of the Elvis band for a month, the band featured the talents of obscure Colorado-based rock guitarist Jock Bartley ( soon to skyrocket to fame with Firefall ), veteran Nashville sideman Neil Flanz on pedal steel, Kyle Tullis on bass and former Mountain drummer N. D. Smart ( once described by Canadian folksinger Ian Tyson as " a psychotic redneck ").

Unable to see or hear the Ghost herself, Gertrude takes Hamlet's conversation with it as further evidence of madness.

Unable to tour, he headed to the Channel Island of Jersey to spend August and September recuperating, with Bonham and Page in tow.

Unable to perform their songs live as a duo and with the impending release of their first album, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos decided to create a live performing ensemble and they recruited four musicians to enable them to undertake concerts and TV appearances.

Unable any longer to resist the urgency of the French cardinals, and with numerous cities of the Papal States in revolt, Urban boarded a ship at Corneto heading for France on 5 September 1370, arriving back at Avignon on the 24th of the same month.

Unable to return home with honor, as Klingons are supposed to commit suicide rather than be taken prisoner, they stayed and strayed from their way of life.

Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3, 225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Unable to raise the required capital in Britain because of this, Edison was forced to enter into a joint venture with Swan ( known as Ediswan ).

Unable to secure Curtin's support, and with an unworkable parliamentary majority, Menzies faced continuing problems with the administration of the war effort and the undermining of his leadership by members of his own coalition.

Unable to successfully manage money, Disney's studio became loaded with debt and wound up bankrupt whereupon he decided to set up a studio in the movie industry's capital city, Hollywood, California.

Unable to cycle around Washington, D. C. as President, Wilson took to playing golf, although he played with more enthusiasm than skill.

Unable to maintain the utilities and bickering constantly with each other, they soon abandon most of the city to the British.

Unable to compete with the Union Pacific's faster, less mountainous route and 39-hour schedules, the California Zephyr offered a more leisurely journey – a " rail cruise " – with ample vistas of the Rockies.

Unable to produce the design himself due to lack of funding, he sold the patent in 1908 to William Henry Hoover who had Spangler's machine redesigned with a steel casing, casters, and attachments.

Unable to make any headway, Bruce agreed to a pact with Mowbray — if no relief came by midsummer 1314, the castle would surrender to Bruce.

" Unable to silence Qutb by incarceration, Nasser accused him of conspiring with the Saudis in attempt to assassinate him and had Qutb executed in 1966 as a result ; the Muslim Brotherhood consequently sentenced Nasser to death.

Unable to come to terms with Hill, the producers re-shot the episode without him ( another character, Cinnamon Carter, listened to the taped message, the selected operatives ' photos were displayed in " limbo ", and the team meeting was held in Rollin Hand's apartment ), and reduced Briggs ' presence in the five episodes left to be filmed to a minimum.

Unable to sail to Italy during the winter, Titus celebrated elaborate games at Caesarea Maritima and Berytus, then travelled to Zeugma on the Euphrates, where he was presented with a crown by Vologases I of Parthia.

Unable to compete with this Cosgrave and his party lost the election, and a minority Fianna Fáil government came to power.

Unable to compete in the new market economy and in need of massive repairs, the colorful ambience once associated with the bustling area of merchant stalls disappeared in 1971, when Les Halles was dismantled ; the wholesale market was relocated to the suburb of Rungis.

Unable to kill a man in cold blood, Jesse Lee demonstrates excellent marksmanship by shooting the man's cigar from his mouth.

Unable to get even horse meat, Walter turned to blood:

Unable to sustain the loss from lawyer's fees, Data General ended up being taken over by EMC Corporation.

Unable to use any of the dilapidated buildings remaining on the island from previous occupants, they constructed a crude shelter from cement bags and tin salvaged from Quonset huts built by the American military twenty years earlier.

Unable to draw Flaminius into battle by mere devastation, Hannibal marched boldly around his opponent ’ s left flank and effectively cut Flaminius off from Rome ( thus executing the first recorded turning movement in military history ).

Unable to discover where the rock had come from, the soldiers attacked and defeated one another.

Unable to end the impasse Taddeo was horrified to hear the fathers of the Council solemmly depose and excommunicate the Emperor on 17 July, while absolving all his subjects from allegiance.

Unable to stop the rift within Calvinism, his father was forced to resign from his ministerial position, which he had held for three decades.

Unable to collect the Sun's energy for power from its solar panels, the probe soon died when its batteries ran out and is now derelict in a solar orbit.

Unable to determine where the rock had come from, the soldiers attacked and killed each other.

Unable to return to Germany and separated from his friends and family, he died in Paris of illness in early 1794.

Unable to imprison Ryback in the brig without clearance from the captain, Krill detains Ryback in a freezer and places a Marine, Private Nash ( Tom Wood ), on guard.

Unable to board the plane, Travis sacrifices himself when he closes the 747's hatch, just as the sleeve breaks and he is sucked from the F-117 into open air.

Unable to convince his associates to abandon tradition and consider escape, and reasoning that modern Kryptonian society had grown cold, unfeeling and thus decadent, Jor-El removed the Eradicator's planetary binding genes from his genetic pattern, took the birthing matrix of his unborn son Kal-El and attached a prototype interstellar propulsion system to the vessel.

Unable to get help from the Dauphin, the knights of northern France appealed to Charles of Navarre to lead them against the peasants.

Unable to keep her love for Caunus a secret from him any longer, she sent him a long love letter through a servant giving examples of other incestuous relationships between the gods.

Unable to associate himself decisively with either party, Chamberlain sought concerted action with a kindred spirit from the Conservative Party, Lord Randolph Churchill.

Unable to remove the road and the private houses along it, Spence designed many of the buildings facing away from it, using contemporary designs working in concrete, glass and mosaic.

Unable to stop the construction, he plundered the territory of several rebellious cities, then travelled around the Aegean suppressing oligarchies and raising funds from various cities of the Athenian Empire.

Unable to agree on the status of sweatshops, the abolitionists working with the League of Nations and the United Nations ultimately backed away from efforts to define slavery, and focused instead on a common precursor of slavery – human trafficking.

Unable to learn any other spells, which were afraid of sharing his head with one of the spells of the Octavo, Rincewind was dismissed from the University.

Unable to convince Rowling of the merit of his case, a disillusioned Douglas decided to stand down from parliament at the 1981 election.

Unable to flow uphill, the waters ( from natural springs, rainfall runoff, etc.