'Inertia' does not mean want of vigour, but may be metaphorically described as the inexpugnable resolve of everything to have its own way. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
Instinct never yet surrendered to arguments; it is their race-instinct, deep and strong and "inexpugnable," as Carlyle would say. From Wordnik.com. [Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future] Reference
Let us now but make them inexpugnable, and they will make themselves universal. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Therefore the mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for, refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. From Wordnik.com. [The Meditations] Reference
I mean the inexpugnable belief that every detailed occurence can be correlated with its antecedents in a perfectly definite manner, exemplifying general principles. From Wordnik.com. [David Heddle on the ID movement] Reference
| Page 71: inexpugnable replaced with inexpungable |. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
That is our place of safety, a sure defence and inexpugnable fortress. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
But he knew also that a country which is full of mountains is inexpugnable. From Wordnik.com. [Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography] Reference
I tell you that our positions are not only very strong, they are inexpugnable. '. From Wordnik.com. [Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4] Reference
This is the practical side of art: its inexpugnable fortress for the true practitioner. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays] Reference
And Peacock's advocacy is here not merely sound; it is, in so far as it goes, inexpugnable. From Wordnik.com. [Gryll Grange] Reference
She should have made for herself a shelter of inexpugnable peace out of that honest affection. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Jim] Reference
Vacuum; inexpugnable, while purse and present condition of society hold out; curable by no hellebore. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Heroic Vacuum; inexpugnable, while purse and present condition of society hold out; curable by no hellebore. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
Democracy stands inexpugnable, immeasurable, in her New World; has even a foot lifted towards the Old; -- and our. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
As a rule, "-- he glanced around at his fellow-topers --" I pride myself that in head and legs I am inexpugnable. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference
Amidst all the changeable in us which passes and is forgotten, there is something which stays and is inexpugnable. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Babylonia, amidst canals affording inexpugnable defences if the Greeks had chosen to take up a position among them. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Great Retreats of History] Reference
This thesis was inexpugnable, when sensation had already been reduced confusedly and implicitly to economic volition. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Line; a confession] Reference
Nicky knew what he had been sent for, and to all his aunt's assaults and manoeuvres he presented an inexpugnable front. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree of Heaven] Reference
My one hope of the world, my inexpugnable consolation in looking at the miseries of the world, is that this is altering. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
On Him should rest, solid and inexpugnable, standing four-square to all the winds that blow, the fabric of our characters. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference
A principle for which so much is claimed demands clear definition and inexpugnable foundation in the "solid ground of Nature.". From Wordnik.com. [Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles] Reference
You look off into narrow side-channels where unconscious degradation has made its inexpugnable home, and sits veiled with refuse. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
As the security of the community depended on the security of the seigneur, it behoved that his residence should be made inexpugnable. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
In the glaring night-hours, when his brain seemed ablaze, he was visited by a sense of his fixed identity, of his irreducible, inexpugnable. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1] Reference
Vischer, is a rather futile question which German erudition has argued pro and con these many years without coming to an inexpugnable conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
"I feared, rather, that it was an inexpugnable remnant of my religious training. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
But in the dark backward and abysm of space to which our lives are confined, the snatcher is indigenous and inexpugnable. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal's Snuff-Box] Reference
There she would be inexpugnable. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
It is Death, Death the inexpugnable!. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
What maketh believers inexpugnable, impregnable?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
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