Adjective : the scalable slope of a mountain. From Dictionary.com.
This was on a high unscalable eminence called Rooi. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
At its upper end, it was blocked by a wall of unscalable heights. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The city nestled in a hollow between sheer, unscalable black walls. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
There are unscalable mountains dividing the river valley from itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Design by Philip Jose Farmer] Reference
They are a boundary, a dividing line, a wall impregnable and unscalable. From Wordnik.com. [The Night-Born] Reference
The walls were vertical, and to almost all observers appeared unscalable. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Conan's glance sought the unscalable sides of the palace and saw nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
Its sides were in parts steep, and unscalable in face of determined resistance. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
Digg, for example, is a big unscalable mess that represents a limited viewing set. From Wordnik.com. [(RSS vs Search) + (Relevance vs Recency)] Reference
The world is two plateaus separated by a steep, and in some places unscalable, cliff. From Wordnik.com. [The Fear of Losing Control] Reference
Its vertical sides seemed unscalable, save where the trail had been cut into the stone. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
Here was a dead and unscalable wall to right and left and in front, and all in deep shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
A valley about 10 miles wide, ending at unscalable mountain cliff, and the river in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer] Reference
It was a narrow cut in the hill, with apparently unscalable sides and open only toward the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
I think the site suffered from two main problems; unscalable/expensive hosting and underfunding. From Wordnik.com. [Who Wants to Buy a Virtual World?] Reference
The air of superiority worn by the lair people chilled him, seemed to erect an unscalable barrier. From Wordnik.com. [Breed to Come]
Have you ever asked your class a question only to be confronted with the unscalable "Wall Of Silence?". From Wordnik.com. [Twitter: Ephemeral Learning Tool] Reference
Facing no penalty and no disincentive not to make unscalable mountains out of microscopic molehills, why shouldn't they?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Apparently those who had come through the gate were gathered before those unscalable, unbreachable walls, willing to wait. From Wordnik.com. [Web Of The Witch World]
They went on upwards, but it was not possible to reach the crest for a sheet of unscalable vertical cliff barred their way. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
He felt hemmed in by those sheer, unscalable walls, desirous of escape, even if escape meant invading some unknown building. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
This, on the other hand, will essentially try to find ways of making unaffordable and unscalable energy sources a bit less so. From Wordnik.com. [US News: “Generation We’s Apollo Project”, Me: “What a dumb idea” « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference
I told One Bruce and Michelle about you getting stuck on an unscalable site and they both said that Keepers are sent where they're needed. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
For the dramatist, sending his imagination beyond earth to heaven, reserves one peak unscalable in the ascent of man towards the summit of his aspirations. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
The idea of that lonely island, lying at the bottom of an unscalable canyon in the midst of a burning, desolate desert, appealed powerfully to their imaginations. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
I worry a lot less about India as they seem to have more difficulties for whatever reasons to create their product companies, focusing on unscalable service companies instead. From Wordnik.com. [Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China] Reference
Above and beyond him towered the pitiless unscalable rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901] Reference
It was equally unscalable, and much more difficult to undermine or batter down. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 1] Reference
To the east of him he knew that there were three miles of almost impassable shore, of unbroken, unscalable cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories] Reference
Its two feet of straight depth was unscalable, and when finally discovered the toads were tired of their imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
On the right ran the wall of the stockade, impenetrable and unscalable, and it was a long two miles to the north gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsman] Reference
He looked back at the Gerns and saw they were within a hundred feet of the -- for them -- unscalable wall of the stockade. From Wordnik.com. [Space Prison] Reference
It was very dark and the forest surrounding the calm expanse of water looked like an impenetrable wall, an unscalable rampart. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
A white man could have found his way only by blind chance through the maze of twisted clefts that seamed the unscalable cliffs and crags. From Wordnik.com. [Bloom of Cactus] Reference
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