impregnable

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Of chambers as the cedars— Impregnable of eye; And for an everlasting roof The gables of the sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Impregnable" Pantelleria, Benito Mussolini's Gibraltar in what he once called Mare Nostrum, was doomed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impregnable England At Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Johnny Shugrue bumped his nose on Pal Moran's fist in the first round of their prospective twelve.

From Time Magazine Archive

For his whole Countrey of Cande Uda, standing upon such high Hills, and those so difficult to pass, is all an Impregnable Fort: and so is more especially Digligy-neur his present Palace.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert

In 1896 appeared ‘The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture,’ revised and enlarged from Good Words. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)