A tribute to his courage...and his unconquerable will. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I will not lower her by calling her unconquerable, for she has never been assailed; but I call her ever-victorious. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery Ordained of God] Reference
Decade after decade, the unforgettable lines of the poem Invictus, "unconquerable," were on Mandela's lips. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture] Reference
Invictus: this song has a name that is Latin for 'unconquerable' or 'undefeated'. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
Government power, corporate power, military power, so interconnected, a ten-thousand-pound gorilla crouched over us, "unconquerable" force. From Wordnik.com. Reference
So I suppose he cannot really be promoting the currently popular racial theory that Iraqis or Afghans are essentially "unconquerable" or "untameable". From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
It seemed to him to express unconquerable remorse. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His love of good was as unconquerable as his will. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
He died as he lived, unconquered and unconquerable. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
I struggled to stamp it out, but it was unconquerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
Maybe what has seemed to be an unconquerable scourge can be vanquished. From Wordnik.com. [I Have Learned To Hope] Reference
It died the fourth day, having taken an unconquerable dislike to the milk. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
But the unconquerable spirit of the woman prevailed over these disadvantages. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Yet he was urged on by that unconquerable spirit which had made man king of all. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
By hard work and unconquerable perseverance you can rise above the low places of poverty. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
This intense and unconquerable prejudice, it is well known, is not confined wholly to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
A subtile, unconquerable something shut her out from all friendliness of speech or action. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But an unconquerable fit of shyness came over her the moment they were left alone together. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
I felt as if walking in a cold shadow; an unconquerable sense of impending danger oppressed me. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Dodo's twin brother, Paul, was not with her, for together the children were a simply unconquerable pair. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
Ninthly, that meekness is a thing unconquerable, if it be true and natural, and not affected or hypocritical. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
The Senator's form towered up like one of his own granite cliffs in the storm -- as rugged, as unconquerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
"I shall stay here," said Percival in a tone which conveyed unconquerable decision, and Hardwicke was silenced. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
It is revealed, again, that there are forces which before all the might of human intellect remain unconquerable. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
Yet it was these turbulent, unconquerable people whom Las Casas now declared he would Christianize and make subject to. From Wordnik.com. [Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies'] Reference
I had learned that hers was one of those deep natures in which grief crystallises slowly, but with an unconquerable persistence. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
But it proved strangely unconquerable, and it rose again and again, vital and conflicting, to taunt him with its indestructibility. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
Nothing could carry them through it with any tolerable satisfaction or spirit, but very strong and almost unconquerable attachments. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
It was the attribute which made Marlborough unconquerable; and, in an army chiefly of Highlanders, it was one of the greatest value. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
We are filled with the consciousness that the sources of German power are unconquerable, not only because of the complete union of the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Afghanistan has a history of being unconquerable by foreign forces, something we witnessed first-hand when we helped the mujahideen repel the Soviet Union after its 1979 invasion. From Wordnik.com. [Mitchell Bard: Is WikiLeaks' Release of the War Logs Afghanistan's Cronkite Moment?] Reference
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