Mask them all, and the mere turn of the head would have shown an unsubduable nature. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
Ah, yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens; yet, in the clefts of it, fountains, green, beautiful valleys with flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference
But there was a serene and unsubduable joy of the spirit abiding all the assaults of sorrow, that shone forth like gold from the fire of the refiner, and glowed like cheerful sunshine through the dusky wings of a storm. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Her eyes were of the Oriental type, -- full, heavy-lidded, ambushed in thick, black lashes, -- themselves dark and unfathomable as the long night of mystery which hangs over the history of her wild and wandering race, those unsubduable, unseducible children of Nature, -- the voluntary Pariahs of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
But the prohibition filled him with an unholy and unsubduable curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference
Sold to a distant plantation, he became noted for his desperate, unsubduable disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I] Reference
My Belief in a special Providence grows yearly stronger, unsubduable, impregnable: however, you see all the mad increase of entanglement. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] Reference
Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens; yet in the clefts of it fountains, green beautiful valleys with flowers!. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
The will is even confirmed by habit in a state of unsubduable capacity, and the will is the grand centralizing element of personality itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the heavens; yet in the clefts of it fountains, green, beautiful valleys with flowers!. From Wordnik.com. [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference
The being held by demons gets, how often, a ready interpretation from the terrible storms of the mind, and the unsubduable fires of hate and demonized passion!. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable excitement in the forecastle. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
My Belief in a special Providence grows yearly stronger, unsubduable, impregnable: however, you see all the mad increase of entanglement I have got to strive with, and will pity me in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I]
Lee, the Seaforths 'padre, kept up the tradition set by Dr. Ewing, that' unsubduable old Roman 'whose white locks had waved through so many battles, till he was wounded at the forcing of Baghdad. From Wordnik.com. [The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad] Reference
To Emerson he writes in 1836, "My belief in a special Providence grows yearly stronger, unsubduable, impregnable"; and later, "Some strange belief in a special Providence was always in me at intervals.". From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
Have you seen that veiled deep glow, that pathetic hurt dignity, that unsubdued and unsubduable spirit that burns and smolders in the eye of a caged eagle and makes you feel mean and shabby under the burden of its mute reproach?. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2] Reference
Hujjat, another champion of conspicuous audacity, of unsubduable will, of remarkable originality and vehement zeal, was being, swiftly and inevitably, drawn into the fiery furnace whose flames had already enveloped Zanján and its environs. From Wordnik.com. [God Passes By] Reference
Not only that: the sinful, disorderly, unsubduable passion torturing Amfortas, for a moment tortures equally Parsifal, whose nature is thrown by it into a horror of self-hatred, and casts itself upon frenzied prayer for deliverance and pardon. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
Close with it, wrestle it: sheer obstinate toughness of muscle; but much more, what we call toughness of heart, which will mean persistence hopeful and even desperate, unsubduable patience, composed candid openness, clearness of mind: all this shall be. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
It was as somebody already confirmed as a big achiever that he was wooed south by Manchester United in 1986 and, once his obsessive competitiveness had overcome inherited problems, he swiftly let English football know that an unsubduable force was on the loose. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Close with it, wrestle it: sheer obstinate toughness of muscle; but much more, what we call toughness of heart, which will mean persistance hopeful and even desperate, unsubduable patience, composed candid openness, clearness of mind: all this shall be 'strength' in wrestling your dragon; the whole man's real strength is in this work, we shall get the measure of him here. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
The last a monster unsubduable. From Wordnik.com. [Idylls of the King] Reference
With passion's unsubduable array. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
And unsubduable evils on him brought. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
With passion’s unsubduable array. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Whereupon, and instantly, child that I was, I knew anger, the old, red, intolerant wrath, ever unrestrainable and unsubduable. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
Hard-handed, with bony brow, rudely combed hair, eyes looking out as in labour, in difficulty and uncertainty; rude mouth, the lips coarse, loose, as in hard toil and lifelong fatigue they have got the habit of hanging: -- hast thou seen aught more touching than the rude intelligence, so cramped, yet energetic, unsubduable, true, which looks out of that marred visage?. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
Pity him too, the Hard-handed, with bony brow, rudely-combed hair, eyes looking out as in labour, in difficulty and uncertainty; rude mouth, the lips coarse, loose, as in hard toil and lifelong fatigue they have got the habit of hanging: -- hast thou seen aught more touching than the rude intelligence, so cramped, yet energetic, unsubduable, true, which looks out of that marred visage?. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Zarrín-Táj (Crown of Gold) and Zakíyyih (Virtuous) by her family and kindred; born in the same year as Bahá’u’lláh; regarded from childhood, by her fellow-townsmen, as a prodigy, alike in her intelligence and beauty; highly esteemed even by some of the most haughty and learned ‘ulamás of her country, prior to her conversion, for the brilliancy and novelty of the views she propounded; acclaimed as Qurrat-i-‘Ayní (solace of my eyes) by her admiring teacher, Siyyid Kázim; entitled Táhirih (the Pure One) by the “Tongue of Power and Glory;” and the only woman enrolled by the Báb as one of the Letters of the Living; she had, through a dream, referred to earlier in these pages, established her first contact with a Faith which she continued to propagate to her last breath, and in its hour of greatest peril, with all the ardor of her unsubduable spirit. From Wordnik.com. [God Passes By] Reference
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