Adjective : an impregnable fort. ,an impregnable argument. From Dictionary.com.
It bespoke much more an attempt at impregnability. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
There's no such thing as impregnability, given time. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of the Phoenix]
Our impregnability does not protect us from militarism. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
She has the strength and impregnability of a diplodocus. From Wordnik.com. [The Lair of the White Worm] Reference
What a figment of the imagination this boasted impregnability of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Branithar stressed the firepower and impregnability of these castles. From Wordnik.com. [The High Crusade]
This isn't about the impregnability of the United States Supreme Court. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Authority]
There had been no slackness, no loophole in the College impregnability. From Wordnik.com. [Twin Moons] Reference
It was as if they did not trust the impregnability of their own position. From Wordnik.com. [He Don't Know Him] Reference
Some 800 years later, Crac des Chevaliers still conveys the impression of impregnability. From Wordnik.com. [A Medieval Castle in the Middle East] Reference
Now, where the enemy was visible, his position was one of discouraging strength, if not of impregnability. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
Its seeming impregnability as a fortress during several wars led to the saying: solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. From Wordnik.com. [Gibraltar] Reference
The reputation which the castle enjoyed for impregnability under Richard, was lost under his successor on the throne. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Akbar used the same trick to enter Rhotas in Behar, after being long baffled by the apparent impregnability of that fortress. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
The forflike appearance, the stout iron bars on every window, had reinforced the image of self-importance and impregnability. From Wordnik.com. [Black Friday]
In each subsequent major building program the Late Bonitians deliberately strove to increase the impregnability of the pueblo. From Wordnik.com. [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference
For a moment its impregnability was too much for the man, and his hands flickered over the gnarled surface with awful helplessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
They were satisfied now of the impregnability of their building and their main concern was to keep out of the way of chance bullets. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
The captive balloon revealed the impregnability of Spion Kop, enabled Lord Roberts to ascertain the position of the Boer guns at the. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
But its impregnability could not offset its gross imprudence. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin Franklin] Reference
Of course his impregnability gave rise to all manner of stories. From Wordnik.com. [The New Tenant] Reference
The apparent impregnability of the position was really its undoing. From Wordnik.com. [World's War Events, Vol. II] Reference
Isaiah is full of symbols of various kinds for the impregnability of. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah] Reference
A gleam of sun revealed the extraordinary impregnability of the place. From Wordnik.com. [Plotting in Pirate Seas] Reference
'I feel,' he said, 'the impregnability of the case made out by Mr. Taylor. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
Madame de Santos 'position moves toward impregnability, as the months roll on. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance] Reference
The power she possessed over him seemed exactly in proportion to his impregnability to every one else. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
Probably that was Martin Jaffry's own impregnability -- that he wouldn't have lied about a lady to save himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors] Reference
They had spent the winter in adding to what nature had made nearly perfect -- the impregnability of the entire sector. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes] Reference
The absolute serenity of his manner bespoke an impregnability of purpose before which the words died away on her lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrious Prince] Reference
Each visit to Thermopylæ has, however, deepened my conviction that Herodotus exaggerated the impregnability of this pass. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two] Reference
Filibusters saw the value of a base so close to Spanish holdings, realized the impregnability of the harbor and flocked thither. From Wordnik.com. [Plotting in Pirate Seas] Reference
We knew that the theory of the Barrier's impregnability had long ago been overthrown; there was an opening to the unknown realm beyond it. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1] Reference
This condition of affairs did not affect the essential impregnability of any individual vault or safe, but, nevertheless, it was singular. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
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