When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. From LearnThat.org. [Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) US essayist, poet, naturalist.]
Gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The more invulnerable the Empire is, the more invulnerable is Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Assimilation] Reference
The mystic is, in short, invulnerable, and must be left, whether we relish it or not, in undisturbed enjoyment of his creed. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
Its technology is so new, so revolutionary, that everyone assumes its so-called invulnerable defences will be impenetrable. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
Ianni points also to studies of so-called invulnerable adolescents -- those who develop into stable young adults in spite of coming from troubled homes, or other adversity. From Wordnik.com. [A Much Riskier Passage] Reference
Kevin Horrigan: Helping troops become 'invulnerable'. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Feeling "invulnerable" on the job ( "layoffs won't affect me; I am IN CHARGE!"). From Wordnik.com. [BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories] Reference
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has described his regime as "invulnerable," state media said yesterday, as tensions mounted over a planned rocket launch. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
The presence of an "invulnerable" nation among nations that are "vulnerable" means inevitable aggression and war, a perpetual menace to civilisation and humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene] Reference
"invulnerable" players aren't immune from stuns either. From Wordnik.com. [Overclockers Club news Feed] Reference
"invulnerable", state media said Sunday, as tensions mounted over a planned rocket launch and a border closure. From Wordnik.com. [Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] Reference
One was politically invulnerable, and the other is retiring. From Wordnik.com. [Mindy S. Lubber: The Senate Punts Recklessly on Energy and Climate] Reference
No child can be made invulnerable-but many can be made strong. From Wordnik.com. [How To Safeguard Your Own Children] Reference
The Internet is not invulnerable, as most people who use it assume. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Internet Broken?] Reference
"He seems to feel invulnerable," Nasrullah says of his patron, Haqqani. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan’s Dangerous Double Game] Reference
Thus armed for the world's battle, he thought himself almost invulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Where JFK seemed invulnerable, RFK was vulnerable, sometimes desperately so. From Wordnik.com. [What If Rfk Had Survived?] Reference
Not, however, till we know how to put on this wondrous robe are we invulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
The myth concerning Achilles is, that he was invulnerable in every part except the heel. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The confidence of having it all together may have made Oscar feel invulnerable to heroin. From Wordnik.com. [My Son's Unfinished Life--And Mine] Reference
He is the most zealous, the most conscientious, and the most invulnerable of total abstainers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
I was invulnerable, invisible, immortal, a speeding wraith riding a sliver of light into the ether. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
He had a stentorian voice, and must have had lungs not less invulnerable than one of Homer's heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
With such bulletproof logic, the occupation spokesmen can pretend that the policy, at least, is invulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: A (Terrorist's) Letter from Iraq] Reference
These clothes, she says, are meant to convey that he's a seemingly invulnerable superhero type in the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [New 'Wall Street' Power Look] Reference
Sacred and invulnerable to the villain, a defender of right and virtue, he may stay with mankind as long as his name is unknown. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
This split could be very dangerous, and not only to transatlantic relations, because the Chinese regime looks invulnerable to change. From Wordnik.com. [Divide and Conquer] Reference
Young women are not invulnerable, but heart disease typically strikes women after menopause, starting in their late 50s or their 60s. From Wordnik.com. [Putting It All Together] Reference
More significantly, the work animals, fed exclusively on fodder from Indore's humus-rich soil, become invulnerable to cattle diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Bush's high poll ratings mask his vulnerability just as the first Bush's high approval after the first gulf war made him seem invulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: The Quiet Man] Reference
She also dipped him in the waters of Styx, by which his whole body became invulnerable, except that part of his heel by which she held him. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
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