inapproachable

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Had he the swiftness of the lion or tiger, his haunts would be inapproachable by man, and he would be a far more terrible assailant than either.

From Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography by Johnson, Clark, M.D.

Was she not something like these pure, distant snowy pinnacles, inapproachable and repellent, with icy-cold breath which petrified all lips that drew too near to them?

From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba

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)

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

Coleridge was aware that Voltaire, in common with every Frenchman until the present generation, held it as a point of faith that the French drama was inapproachable in excellence.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)