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

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

The Duc de Crillon is sanguine; he told me, that in his opinion, Gibraltar was far more pregnable than Mahon.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Sparks, Jared

The city was encircled by walls and fortifications of great strength and height, and scarcely pregnable even if accessible.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 by Various