The sight of that bland, impregnably righteous face has been enough to make their blood run cold. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an impregnable fort. ,an impregnable argument. From Dictionary.com.
And "Lolita" now comes impregnably armored in literary reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Lolita At 50, And Forever Young] Reference
Man, the rows of London houses stood latched, barred, and bolted impregnably. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
In Courland, in Latvia, a considerable contingent was still impregnably fortified, and supplied by sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Nazis' Last Stand] Reference
The tables seemed to be completely turned, and the time-honored rule of our slave-masters impregnably re-established. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
We were about to come to you in person, to plead with you, when you met Three Janowick and opened to her your hitherto impregnably-sealed inner mind. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Vortex]
Here they have excavated bomb-proof Barracks, and can lodge an army almost impregnably, scouring all the ditches with Cannon, and defying every thing but starvation. —. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 290] Reference
House Member for East Worcester, returned to-day representing the division of Birmingham where his father sat impregnably throned for uninterrupted period of twenty-nine years. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
He was impregnably armoured by his good intentions and his ignorance, I left him standing in the square and went on up the rue Catinat to where the hideous pink Cathedral blocked the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Quiet American]
Nevertheless, his mind was not impregnably fortified. From Wordnik.com. [The Clarion] Reference
Church-and-King party, impregnably powerful, made up of all who had. From Wordnik.com. [Shelley] Reference
Her limousine hurried her on, enthroned impregnably above the envious herd. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune Hunter] Reference
They looked to me like children impregnably fortified in a helpless confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women] Reference
The younger combatants of the Five Brothers outside the impregnably guarded headquarters in. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy With the U.S. Census] Reference
No rule ever stood builded so impregnably from earth to stars -- a merciless wall of power. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
The end, which is impregnably based on a real though private experience justifies the means. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
How impregnably they had seemed to shield him from all that was without, and now – "Wanderer!". From Wordnik.com. [Spice and the Devil's Cave] Reference
He was in that singular valley between the two ships, where their hulls were impregnably welded fast. From Wordnik.com. [The Aliens] Reference
But even to me, an Invisible Man, the rows of London houses stood latched, barred, and bolted impregnably. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
The long war of Marlborough had left England impregnably triumphant, and France ambitious of nothing but peace. From Wordnik.com. [The Highwayman] Reference
With five hours 'notice -- or indeed by next day, even were no notice given -- the jail would have been impregnably defended. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Dawn] Reference
So it is His exodus -- and, as I believe, His death and Resurrection alone -- on which the faith in immortality impregnably rests. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference
Never did the arguments of his legions and his great officers on the other side, serve but to intrench him the more impregnably in his own. From Wordnik.com. [Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century] Reference
Armies indeed have been encamped many times on the slopes and meadows of the valley of the Cure, now to all seeming so impregnably tranquil. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference
She was secure, sheltered, impregnably fortified both in Tunis 'love and in the situation she had gained with the Balls and in the community. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod] Reference
He was convinced that the glory of his house was to be infinitely enhanced, and its power impregnably established, by a cordial co-operation with. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Constitution with but one element of elasticity in the Supreme Court decisions, established these principles impregnably in the political structure. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
Constantinople, fortified both sides of the Bosporus and the Hellespont, overrun Greece and planted themselves firmly and impregnably on the shores of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power] Reference
But she knew well enough that contempt would not shake what she had seen in his face; he was impregnably walled within his clever, dull conviction of superiority. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Flower] Reference
Galaxídhi revolted in April, and was followed in June by Mesolonghi -- a prosperous town of fishermen, impregnably situated in the midst of the lagoons at the mouth of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey] Reference
Such denudation must be made impossible; our fleet so augmented and strengthened as to provide impregnably at all times for home defence no less than for foreign necessities. From Wordnik.com. [Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake] Reference
It was a great democratic victory -- the triumph of the mass of the people of the State over a reactionary minority hitherto impregnably entrenched and apparently invincible. From Wordnik.com. [Party Politics in North Carolina, 1835-1860] Reference
Here at Chattanooga, so impregnably ours, issued Tennessee river and the Memphis and Charleston railroad from the mountain gateway between our eastern and western seats of war. From Wordnik.com. [Kincaid's Battery] Reference
Pyle, he writes, was "impregnably armoured by his good intentions and his ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: Bush Misreads Iraq: 'The Quiet American' Not Kristol Clear] Reference
Pyle, he writes, was "impregnably armoured by his good intentions and his ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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