pregnable

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This rule rigidly defined the Nazis' plan of action in the Balkans: cut Yugoslavia from Greece, pro-Nazi Croatia from anti-Nazi Serbia, pregnable Thrace from defensible central Greece, the tough Greeks from the tough British.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or would the 50-odd Allied divisions still in Britain mount an entirely new thrust at the demonstrably pregnable Atlantic Wall?

From Time Magazine Archive

There comes therefore the Statesman who acknowledges to himself that he will be pregnable.

From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony

The newcomer's reserve was indeed pregnable to no assault I could devise.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon

It makes a breach in the blank wall, and the whole is now pregnable.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various