unpierceable

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"Estelle is a courageous woman and discreet with the unpierceable reticence of spontaneity."

From Balloons by Bibesco, Elizabeth

It was a very trying experience, as the river was absolutely unknown to me; the darkness was "unpierceable by power of any star," and the river was treacherous in itself for small boats.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

Its edge did not, like that of their own weapons, blunt with usage, and they could well understand that, if armor could be formed of it, it would be altogether unpierceable.

From By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Here the unpierceable walls were washed every morning by an automatic sluice.

From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

He seems, if I may so say, to have transubstantiated his vast imagination and fancy into subtlety not to be evaded, acuteness to which nothing remains unpierceable, and indefatigable agility of argumentation.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson