inapproachable

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Is it not strange," said Oswald, after a short pause, "what inapproachable beings some of us children of Adam are?

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich

Mr. Holmes was a cheerful companion at first, but gradually he grew melancholy, and at times inapproachable.

From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by Musick, John R. (John Roy)

Besides all these contradictions, he is solitary, unknown, inapproachable.

From Secret of the Woods by Long, William Joseph

I would abstain even from touching her hand if I could place her on some inapproachable height where nobody could come near her.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Old Weston is an out-of-the-way village in the county, and until within a few years was almost inapproachable by carriages in winter; but in what the point of the remark lies, I do not know.

From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various