Would it some day swing forward, like the dark, remorseless finger of an hour-dial, and lie once more impassably between them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
They ascended on up the line of the ridge until they came to a place where their path seemed to fall off impassably into the valley below. From Wordnik.com. [Reiffeins Choice] Reference
Then came the first snow, turning the ruins of the curtain wall into an almost impassably slippery barrier, and the familiar necropolis into a strange wilderness of deceptive hummocks, in which monuments were suddenly too large under their coats of new snow, and the trees and bushes crushed to half size by theirs. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
In another instant the road is impassably blocked. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
The ground was muddy everywhere, and impassably so in some places. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Brother A Story of Indian War] Reference
They had fallen into a sort of unroofed cave, — a hollow, shut in completely and impassably. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsy's Cousin Joy] Reference
During her absence, though how or by whom she could not know, the door had been impassably closed to keep her out!. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
What rubbish most girls will take for poetry, and with it heap up impassably their door to the garden of delights! what French polish they will take for refinement! what merest. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Marston] Reference
Wealth has accumulated itself into masses; and Poverty, also id accumulation enough, lies impassably separated from it; opposed, uncommunicating, like forces in positive and negative poles. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 20-39] Reference
I salute mournfully the companies that have sat down at dinner there, for they are sadly scattered now; some beyond seas, some beyond the narrow gulf, so impassably deeper to our longing and tenderness than the seas. From Wordnik.com. [Suburban Sketches] Reference
Some of those men's ears are impassably stopped up by self-love, self-interest, party-spirit, anger, envy, and ill-will, -- impenetrably stopped up against all the men and all the truths of earth and of heaven that would instruct, enlighten, convict or correct them. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)] Reference
Happily the spot was just at the bottom of the impassably steep fall of ground next the edge of the lawn and was almost in the centre of those four acres -- one of sward, three of woods -- which I proposed to hold under more or less discipline, leaving the rest -- a wooded strip running up the river shore -- wholly wild, as college girls, for example, would count wildness. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Garden] Reference
"Wealth has accumulated itself into masses; and poverty, also in accumulation enough, lies impassably separated from it; opposed, uncommunicating, like forces in positive and negative poles. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
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