Usage examples (12)

• Yet even now, in the shadow of an obstacle that loomed as impreg-nable as anything he had ever faced, he hadn't consid-ered turning away.
• "All the more reason then for making this wall impreg -- all fat and thick and solid," he concluded, unable to manage the longer word.
• It might happen that the nitrous particles, with which the air was impreg - nated, increafed the fermentation of the blood, and ren - dered the contagion more quick and...
• They do not by any means seem to come, as has been maintained, from the mere percolation of water through slates impreg - nated with iron, which is dissolved and carried...