She thought of the big fragrant package that had been sent out as a gift, and was lying fifty miles away but un-get-at-able, and felt far from saintly as she resorted to the infusion of old leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
Vann in particular was much in the good books of General Allenby, the Corps Commander, for his splendid work, though he was once the cause of his very nearly spoiling an immaculate pair of breeches when showing him with much glee a particularly un-get-at-able loophole plate in a very muddy trench. From Wordnik.com. [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference
She lay in a most un-get-at-able position at the further end of the hold, stowed in so confined and narrow a space, that it was impossible to think of fitting the parts together there. From Wordnik.com. [Swiss Family Robinson] Reference
It was horrible to have to sit and look at a problem without the least idea of how to solve it; or to find that the dates and facts which ought to have been at their finger-ends had departed to distant and un-get-at-able realms of their memory. From Wordnik.com. [A Patriotic Schoolgirl] Reference
Bosambo was evidently un-get-at-able, and the most alarming rumour of all was that which came from Sierra Leone and was to the effect that Bosambo had embarked for England with the expressed intention of seeking an interview with a very high personage indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference
It was arduous work, for the said cliffs were almost perpendicular, and plants grew in such high-up crevices, and on such un-get-at-able places, that it seemed as if "rare specimens" knew their own value, as well as the great demand for them, and selected their habitations accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle Cliff] Reference
As must have been noted by the reader long ere now, this like-minded couple did not possess a conscience between them -- at least, if they did, it must at that time have been a singularly shrunken and mummified one, which they had managed to keep hidden away in some dark and exceedingly un-get-at-able chamber of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains] Reference
"He would probably have travelled all night and have left you stranded in some un-get-at-able place. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel of Terror] Reference
By the time the sun had been risen about an hour, Cunningham and I became aware that it needed something more than a mere shipwreck to rob us of our appetite, for we found ourselves rapidly developing a good, wholesome hunger; but, alas! there were no means of appeasing it, for the schooner was full of water and everything in the nature of provisions was quite un-get-at-able: we should therefore be obliged to wait for a meal until we could get ashore, which, we decided, could scarcely be until the afternoon, if even then. From Wordnik.com. [Turned Adrift] Reference
Nearly un-get-at-able sentences pop up. From Wordnik.com. [The Fear of a Failure to Communicate] Reference
They are deceptive -- so un-get-at-able. From Wordnik.com. [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference
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