unpierceable

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And is he then unpierceable," quoth she,   "That neither force nor foe he needs regard?

From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward

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

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

Sorrow, sin, pride, shame, ambition, failure, obstinacy, ignorance, selfishness, forgetfulness—enough to make ye veil your radiant faces in unpierceable clouds to hide forever the sight of so much crime and misery.

From A Romance of Two Worlds by Corelli, Marie

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

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