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  • Jurgis was destined to find that Elzbieta's armor was absolutely impervious to Socialism.   (source)
    impervious = not capable of being affected by
  • His wife became more and more querulous and ill-tempered, but the attitude Ivan Ilych had adopted towards his home life rendered him almost impervious to her grumbling.   (source)
  • The face looks deaf it has that vacant, posed imperviousness of all well-brought-up girls of the time.†   (source)
  • Impervious they were to disease or illness, said one of them.†   (source)
  • I got the feeling that everyone had tiptoed around him since his accident—apart from perhaps Nathan, who Will seemed to treat with an automatic respect, and who was probably impervious to any of his sharper comments anyway.†   (source)
  • Manufacturers tell us the like to test-market their products in Savannah—toothpastes and detergents and the like—because Savannah is utterly impervious to outside influence.†   (source)
  • Chapter 25: The Seer Overheard The fact that Harry Potter was going out with Ginny Weasley seemed to interest a great number of people, most of them girls, yet Harry found himself newly and happily impervious to gossip over the next few weeks.†   (source)
  • Impervious.†   (source)
  • I move through the house like an armored beetle, impervious to Mrs. Grote's sharp tongue, Harold's whining, the cries of Gerald Jr., who will never in his life satisfy his aching need to be held.†   (source)
  • It is strong as steel, yet lighter and far more flexible, and of course utterly impervious to fire.†   (source)
  • She's impervious to heartbreak.†   (source)
  • In a movement so nonchalant, it signaled he was impervious to temperatures only known in the Sahara Desert, he leaned his hip against the counter.†   (source)
  • She is very good at it, and impervious to danger.†   (source)
  • My entire body is now impervious to heat.†   (source)
  • "I think more than ever of the value of the island," he wrote to Harry Codman, "and of the importance of using all possible, original means of securing impervious screening, dense massive piles of foliage on its borders; with abundant variety of small detail in abject subordination to general effect….†   (source)
  • Kathy had known for a decade that her husband was one of those inexplicably solid, self-sufficient, and never-needy men who got by on air and water, impervious to injury or disease—but still she wondered how he sustained himself.†   (source)
  • Sparking along on four naked rims, she shrieks to a stop on the lawngrid, which doubles as carbon dioxide-eating turf and impervious parking lot.†   (source)
  • and then she sat down on the bed . . . not where she usually sat, however; she sat on its foot and for a moment he saw only her solid, impervious back as she bent over, as if to check on something.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it works, but other times he is impervious to my tricks.†   (source)
  • Golems were impervious to most weapons, though a sudden fall or blow could shatter their mud skin, especially if it was dry and hardening.†   (source)
  • The kind of guys who were born without the fear gene, impervious to pain.†   (source)
  • The dogs' dense, oily coats made them impervious to the icy waters, and their swimming prowess, boundless energy, and ability to cradle fish gently in their jaws without damaging the flesh made them ideal work dogs for the tough North Atlantic conditions.†   (source)
  • He had become accustomed to Zar'roc, which never dulled, never showed signs of wear, and, so far as he knew, was impervious to most spells.†   (source)
  • He was impervious to the fascination of the mustelidae, and hoped someday to kill a weasel, if not a stoat.†   (source)
  • There was no way he was as impervious as he seemed.†   (source)
  • Impervious to weather himself, he came to dread the winters for fear winter would take the rest of his family.†   (source)
  • Such a culture in rural Ethiopia might seem impervious to change.†   (source)
  • The Japanese were building defenses impervious to our bombs.†   (source)
  • And though I firmly believed the entire coast to be impervious to a wave of hysteria, I did not intend to risk notice of any kind.†   (source)
  • Any other woman would have been delighted with all this and would have had her work cut out for her for months to come, but not Clara, who was impervious to these things.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes.†   (source)
  • Three years earlier, on a warm November morning in 1999, Adrienne Willis had returned to the Inn and at first glance had thought it unchanged, as if the small Inn were impervious to sun and sand and salted mist.†   (source)
  • Impervious to fire, I think—or perhaps water.†   (source)
  • So I get on the tube feeling serene and impervious, like a Buddhist monk.†   (source)
  • But it was an unintended miracle-as the Jackal's van was bulletproof, it was also impervious to bullets shot from within!†   (source)
  • Nor was Adams like George Washington immensely popular, elected unanimously, and all but impervious to criticism.†   (source)
  • The First Lady's extraordinary popularity once made her impervious to political attacks.†   (source)
  • She had thought him impervious to shock; he wasn't.†   (source)
  • The outlet was blocked with some barrier, but not of stone: soft and a little yielding it seemed, and yet strong and impervious; air filtered through, but not a glimmer of any light.†   (source)
  • It has helped them survive the impervious tyranny of Southern men more comfortable with a myth than a flesh-and-blood woman.†   (source)
  • But they hadn't anticipated the massive iron shutters the Tappans had installed outside-which, when closed and locked, made the store as impervious as a bank vault-or Arthur and thirty of his clerks armed with muskets.†   (source)
  • Even the tower that is merely a reflection of Crenshinibon is impervious.†   (source)
  • She was impervious to lies or foolish excuses or the insufferable plea of not knowing any better.†   (source)
  • Within a half hour's time the blizzard had died, Amber was virtually impervious-and it was really the only city.†   (source)
  • Not even John Calhoun, who had fought him for years, was impervious to his fascination: "I don't like Henry Clay.†   (source)
  • Lady Lundie (born impervious to all sense of irony) smiled graciously.   (source)
  • Jurgis was destined to find that Elzbieta's armor was absolutely impervious to Socialism.   (source)
  • But Fyne was as impervious to sarcasm as a turtle.   (source)
  • someone impervious to argument
  • To make matters worse, she was quite impervious to mercenary considerations, and could not be bribed in any way.   (source)
  • a material impervious to water
  • We led the busy eventless lives of three nuns in a barren and poverty-stricken convent: the walls we had were safe, impervious enough, even if it did not matter to the walls whether we ate or not.   (source)
    impervious = not permitting passage through (to those not allowed in)
  • He takes up the saw again; again it moves up and down, in and out of that unhurried imperviousness as a piston moves in the oil;   (source)
    imperviousness = unaffected
  • But he was impervious to the veiled criticism.†   (source)
  • She had piercing blue eyes, and wrinkles that told of a life impervious to skin-care routines.†   (source)
  • She's like a god—impervious to cold, famine, disease, natural and man-made disasters.†   (source)
  • A nurse sat behind the main desk, her head bent, impervious to my presence.†   (source)
  • We're impervious, we scintillate, we are thirteen.†   (source)
  • Whatever emanations may seep from them at night, he will be impervious to them.†   (source)
  • The king himself made us impervious to pain.†   (source)
  • I'm impervious to all criticism of my alma mater.†   (source)
  • Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers.†   (source)
  • His sword, unlike hers, would be impervious to whatever evil magic the spikes contained.†   (source)
  • He thought that she had become impervious to anything.†   (source)
  • He swung a second time, but the chain was impervious to his blade.†   (source)
  • He seemed absolutely impervious to their screaming, and he showed no inclination to leave.†   (source)
  • He reached out and stroked the man's hands, and it was like touching steel, cold and impervious.†   (source)
  • Ned was impervious to the sting of bees and could always be summoned to capture a wild swarm.†   (source)
  • And two people can indulge in imperviousness as well as in anything else.†   (source)
  • A person with active tb of the lungs harbors hundreds of millions of bacteria, enough to ensure that a small number will be mutants impervious to anti-tb drugs.†   (source)
  • Behind it trailed a growing bunch of revelers, dancing along with the beat, drinking and throwing their empty bottles to shatter against the huge, impervious machine.†   (source)
  • There was a billiards room, and a drawing room and a morning room, and a library with a marble Medusa over the fireplace — the nineteenth-century type of Medusa, with a lovely impervious gaze, the snakes writhing up out of her head like anguished thoughts.†   (source)
  • When she spoke of her livestock or when he saw her trudging grimly past his window, breaking her breath with the impervious prow of her face, he had imagined a ramshackle outbuilding like an illustration from a child's book of ghost stories , rooftree bowed and sagging from years of snowweight, windows blank and dusty, some broken and blocked with pieces of cardboard, long double doors perhaps off their tracks and swaying outward.†   (source)
  • Harry dried his hands, impervious to the beauty of the scene out-side the window and to the murmuring of the others in the sitting room.†   (source)
  • Some quadriplegics had no sensation, but, while he was impervious to temperature, below his chest Will could feel both pain and touch.†   (source)
  • It was punishable by death to cover your face if you were not a Snilfard, since imperviousness and subterfuge were reserved for the nobility.†   (source)
  • Custer is impervious to personal injury, his savagery today adding to his growing legend for fearlessness.†   (source)
  • The strange dwarf stared hard at Orik, then removed an iron ring from his pocket, plucked three hairs from his beard, twined them around the ring, and threw it onto the street with an impervious clink, spitting after it.†   (source)
  • It cannot be broken by any normal means, cannot be harmed by fire, and is almost completely impervious to magic, as you yourself saw.†   (source)
  • The Japanese had installed more than 750 blockhouses and pillboxes around the island: little igloos of rounded concrete, reinforced with steel rods to make them virtually impervious even to artillery rounds.†   (source)
  • He had just opened with one of his most trusted paradoxes, and he was positively alarmed that not the slightest flicker of acknowledgment had moved across that impervious face, which began to remind him suddenly, in hue and texture, of an unused soap eraser.†   (source)
  • It was the mission of boot camp to quickly convert recruits' naive boyish fervor into something American society had never generated before: a mass-produced, numerically immense cadre of warrior-specialists at once technically sophisticated and emotionally impervious to the horrors of battle.†   (source)
  • For three days, we've tried to break them, but they're impervious to magic, and the battering ram has barely dented the wood.†   (source)
  • And confronting her daily there was the final product of it all, the heir and collector-Cuffy Meigs, the man impervious to thought.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily, he could have killed any of the men in an instant, but the fact that they were impervious to pain meant that he had to either behead them, stab them through the heart, or cut them and hold them offuntil loss of blood rendered them unconscious.†   (source)
  • Eragon removed his tunic and shirt, so he would not ruin them during the work to come, and in their place Rhunon gave him a tight-fitting jerkin and a fabric apron treated so that it was impervious to fire.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of truck that fed the power station-a tank truck, its bright new paint impervious to sleet, green with white letters: Wyatt Oil, Colorado.†   (source)
  • The secretary was an elderly spinster with a forbidding manner: a manner of even-toned courtesy impervious to any shock, just as her spotless white blouse was impervious to an atmosphere filled with coal dust.†   (source)
  • He came to believe the doctrine that this desire was wholly physical, a desire, not of consciousness, but of matter, and he rebelled against the thought that his flesh could be free to choose and that its choice was impervious to the will of his mind.†   (source)
  • Then you wonder why your children join the People's thugs or become half-crazed delinquents, you wonder why the looters' conquests keep creeping closer to your doors-and you blame it on human stupidity, declaring that the masses are impervious to reason.†   (source)
  • Watching him at tonight's reception, Taggart had concluded that the man was impervious to any sort of feeling, he looked as if a knife could slash, unnoticed, through his pendulous layers of flesh-except that there was a lewd, almost sexual relish in the way he rubbed his feet against the rich pile of his Persian rugs, or patted the polished arm of his chair, or folded his lips about a cigar.†   (source)
  • He's impervious to fear.†   (source)
  • …man is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of two attributes: of matter and consciousness, and that he may permit no breach between body and mind, between action and thought, between his life and his convictions-that, like a judge impervious to public opinion, he may not sacrifice his convictions to the wishes of others, be it the whole of mankind shouting pleas or threats against him-that courage and confidence are practical necessities, that courage is the practical form of…†   (source)
  • …would never have the right to leavethe thought that he owed her at least the feeble recognition of sympathy, of respect for a feeling he could neither understand nor returnthe knowledge that he could summon nothing for her, except contempt, a strange, total, unreasoning contempt, impervious to pity, to reproach, to his own pleas for justice-and, hardest to bear, the proud revulsion against his own verdict, against his demand that he consider himself lower than this woman he despised.†   (source)
  • Just as unharmed as bubbles a child blows, the most impervious things-you've seen grass blades go through bubbles and they still reflect the world, give it back unbroken.†   (source)
  • The other followed and sprang upon him, to be caught in his impervious midsection by a red boot, as the front of his garment was jerked forward and down.†   (source)
  • Their arms encircling each other, their bodies circling the odorous, just-nailed-down floor, they were, at last, imperviousness in motion.†   (source)
  • Of all human moods, deliberate imperviousness may be the most quickly communicated-it may be the most successful, most fatal signal of all.†   (source)
  • I thought I could speak to you because you're the one person who's impervious to any sort of shock.†   (source)
  • No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain.†   (source)
  • There was about her a quality impervious to time: a belligerent and diamondsurfaced respectability.†   (source)
  • She looked at his face as he came up the steps, that dark nonchalant face, so impervious, so blank.†   (source)
  • Yet the slow and fading glow disregards it, impervious to reprimand.†   (source)
  • Hair and beard both had a hard, vigorous quality, unsilvered, as though the pigmentation were impervious to the forty and more years which the face revealed.†   (source)
  • Everything becomes impervious.†   (source)
  • Julia, hearing her lover mocked, frowned at the tortoise, but Rex Mottram was impervious to such delicate mischief.†   (source)
  • However, M. Othon was impervious to such considerations and would not let the plague change his habits.†   (source)
  • That thin air had a dream-like texture, matching the porcelain-blue of the sky; with every breath and every glance he took in a deep anesthetizing tranquillity that made him impervious alike to Mallinson's uneasiness, Barnard's witticisms, and Miss Brinklow's portrayal of a lady well prepared for the worst.†   (source)
  • His father appeared at the door, framed against that shabbiness, as he had been against that other bland perfection, impervious to either, the mother's anxious face at his shoulder.†   (source)
  • It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness.†   (source)
  • He went his way, amused, contemptuous, impervious to the opinions of those about him, so courteous that his courtesy was an affront in itself.†   (source)
  • They are like wax figures, set stiffly on their chairs, carrying out mechanically the motions of getting drunk but sunk in a numb stupor which is impervious to stimulation.†   (source)
  • Thus she passed from generation to generation—dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.†   (source)
  • Nanny Hawkins and my father were two people who seemed impervious to change, neither an hour older than when I first knew them.†   (source)
  • …reserved for something more some desolation more profound than ruin, as if it had stood in iron juxtaposition to iron flame, to a holocaust which had found itself less fierce and less implacable, not hurled but rather fallen back before the impervious and indomitable skeleton which the flames durst not, at the instant's final crisis, assail; there was even one step, one plank rotted free and tilting beneath the foot (or would have if I had not touched it light and fast) as I ran up and…†   (source)
  • …this peace and dignity are beyond his touch, he no more to them than a buzzing wasp: capable of stinging for a little moment but that's all; the spell of this peace and dignity rendering even the barns and stable and cribs which belong to it impervious to the puny flames he might contrive … this, the peace and joy, ebbing for an instant as he looked again at the stiff black back, the stiff and implacable limp of the figure which was not dwarfed by the house, for the reason that it had…†   (source)
  • the puny flames he might contrive ... this, the peace and joy, ebbing for an instant as he looked again at the stiff black back, the stiff and implacable limp of the figure which was not dwarfed by the house, for the reason that it had never looked big anywhere and which now, against the serene columned backdrop, had more than ever that impervious quality of something cut ruthlessly from tin, depthless, as though, sidewise to the sun, it would cast no shadow.†   (source)
  • Then Ellen died, the butterfly of a forgotten summer two years defunctive now—the substanceless shell, the shade impervious to any alteration or dissolution because of its very weightlessness: no body to be buried: just the shape, the recollection, translated on some peaceful afternoon without bell or catafalque into that cedar grove, to lie in powder-light paradox beneath the thousand pounds of marble monument which Sutpen (Colonel Sutpen now, since Sartoris had been deposed at the…†   (source)
  • Heller, the fighter against compulsion, was baffled by Roark, a man so impervious to compulsion that he became a kind of compulsion himself, an ultimatum against things Heller could not define.†   (source)
  • A man with a big frame but gaunt now almost to emaciation, with a short reddish beard which resembled a disguise and above which his pale eyes had a quality at once visionary and alert, ruthless and reposed in a face whose flesh had the appearance of pottery, of having been colored by that oven's fever either of soul or environment, deeper than sun alone beneath a dead impervious surface as of glazed clay.†   (source)
  • …even now in her hand or on her lap the reticule with all the keys, entrance closet and cupboard, that the house possessed which she was about to desert for perhaps six hours; and a parasol, an umbrella too, he thought, thinking how she would be impervious to weather and season since although he had not spoken a hundred words to her in his life before this afternoon, he did know that she had never before tonight quitted that house after sundown save on Sundays and Wednesdays for prayer…†   (source)
  • …dedicated to it but set aside for it and suitably so since it would be here above any other place that it (the logic and the morality) could do the least amount of harm; —the two of them back to back as though at the last ditch, saying No to Quentin's Mississippi shade who in life had acted and reacted to the minimum of logic and morality, who dying had escaped it completely, who dead remained not only indifferent but impervious to it, somehow a thousand times more potent and alive.†   (source)
  • …in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable—Yes, Judith, Bon, Henry, Sutpen: all of them.†   (source)
  • …daughter (the woman of thirty now and looking older, not as the weak grow old, either enclosed in a static ballooning of already lifeless flesh or through a series of stages of gradual collapsing whose particles adhere not to some iron and still impervious framework but to one another as though in some communal and oblivious and mindless life of their own like a colony of maggots, but as the demon himself had grown old with a kind of condensation, an anguished emergence of the primary…†   (source)
  • …apparently wealthy and with for background the shadowy figure of a legal guardian rather than any parents—a personage who in the remote Mississippi of that time must have appeared almost phoenix-like, fullsprung from no childhood, born of no woman and impervious to time and, vanished, leaving no bones nor dust anywhere—a man with an ease of manner and a swaggering gallant air in comparison with which Sutpen's pompous arrogance was clumsy bluff and Henry actually a hobble-de-hoy.†   (source)
  • …an act of God enabling me ostensibly to obey my dying sister's request that I save at least one of the two children which she had doomed by conceiving them but actually to be in the house when he returned who, being a demon, would therefore be impervious to shot and shell and so would return; I waiting for him because I was young still (who had buried no hopes to bugles, beneath a flag) and ripe for marrying in this time and place where most of the young men were dead and all the…†   (source)
  • …from the world—the woman who had quitted home and kin on a flood of tears and in a shadowy miasmic region something like the bitter purlieus of Styx had produced two children and then rose like the swamp-hatched butterfly, unimpeded by weight of stomach and all the heavy organs of suffering and experience, into a perennial bright vacuum of arrested sun—and the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.†   (source)
  • …point of it and using a knife which he had produced from somewhere, clumsily, with obvious lack of skill and practice, yet with deadly earnestness and a strength which his slight build denied, a strength composed of sheer desperate will and imperviousness to the punishment, the blows and slashes which he took in return and did not even seem to feel; —no cause, no reason for it; none to ever know exactly what happened, what curses and ejaculations which might have indicated what it was…†   (source)
  • But her grace was impervious to hints, and invited or omitted as she chose.†   (source)
  • She had never quite forgiven Tom for being impervious to her charms.†   (source)
  • But Rosedale's natural imperviousness to hints made it easy for him to brush such resistance aside.†   (source)
  • "He is impervious to pity," Mrs. Penniman added, by way of explanation.†   (source)
  • These words indicated that the commander pursued a policy impervious to arguments.†   (source)
  • Are you quite impervious to good advice?†   (source)
  • Let every marvel take form and fashion Through the impervious veil it wore!†   (source)
  • To make matters worse, she was quite impervious to mercenary considerations, and could not be bribed in any way.†   (source)
  • There was about Alexandra something of the impervious calm of the fatalist, always disconcerting to very young people, who cannot feel that the heart lives at all unless it is still at the mercy of storms; unless its strings can scream to the touch of pain.†   (source)
  • She was persuaded that irrepressible passion was the cause of his impatience; and being an ardent admirer of impulsiveness (when it did not lead to the spending of money) she always received him with a genial twinkle of complicity and a play of allusion to which May seemed fortunately impervious.†   (source)
  • He was an elderly man, with a white beard and a florid complexion, who had painted a number of decorations for the State, but these were an object of derision to the students he instructed: he was a disciple of Ingres, impervious to the progress of art and angrily impatient with that tas de farceurs whose names were Manet, Degas, Monet, and Sisley; but he was an excellent teacher, helpful, polite, and encouraging.†   (source)
  • She was one of those elderly "good sports" preserved by an imperviousness to experience and a good digestion into another generation.†   (source)
  • He didn't want them to grow up superstitious, so he rebuked them, and they answered yes, father, for they were well brought up, but, like himself, they were impervious to argument, and after a polite pause they continued saying what their natures compelled them to say.†   (source)
  • "Well," he continued, still jovially impervious to her annoyance, "have you made up your mind which of these little trinkets you mean to duplicate at Tiffany's tomorrow?†   (source)
  • I have pointed out again and again that the influence of the theatre in England is growing so great that whilst private conduct, religion, law, science, politics, and morals are becoming more and more theatrical, the theatre itself remains impervious to common sense, religion, science, politics, and morals.†   (source)
  • Whence Mr. Stelling concluded that Tom's brain, being peculiarly impervious to etymology and demonstrations, was peculiarly in need of being ploughed and harrowed by these patent implements; it was his favorite metaphor, that the classics and geometry constituted that culture of the mind which prepared it for the reception of any subsequent crop.†   (source)
  • Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me, impervious to my touch or sight; but I now found that I could wander on at liberty, with no obstacles which I could not either surmount or avoid.†   (source)
  • Before winter I built a chimney, and shingled the sides of my house, which were already impervious to rain, with imperfect and sappy shingles made of the first slice of the log, whose edges I was obliged to straighten with a plane.†   (source)
  • Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which appeared impervious to the sun's rays.†   (source)
  • The interstices were filled up with clay and moss; and coating the whole over with a mixture of tar and lime-water, we obtained a firm balcony, and a capital roof impervious to the severest fall of rain.†   (source)
  • A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England.†   (source)
  • Master Micawber was hardly visible in a Guernsey shirt, and the shaggiest suit of slops I ever saw; and the children were done up, like preserved meats, in impervious cases.†   (source)
  • The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, encircled them with coral, and encrusted them with shells; the whole was cemented by two hundred years beneath these almost impervious depths, for a revolution carried away the emperor who wished to make the trial, and only left the documents proving the manufacture of the jars and their descent into the sea.†   (source)
  • I began to occupy my house on the 4th of July, as soon as it was boarded and roofed, for the boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped, so that it was perfectly impervious to rain, but before boarding I laid the foundation of a chimney at one end, bringing two cartloads of stones up the hill from the pond in my arms.†   (source)
  • He whirled and cast, and the long spear trailed swift shadow straight to the mark he aimed for, the helm crest; but it rebounded, clanging, bronze from bronze, and never reached or broke his handsome skin: the ridged and triple-welded helm Apollo gave him was impervious.†   (source)
  • No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought.†   (source)
  • Impervious to cold, he seemed to carry a small furnace within himself, and his skin was always warm; sometimes almost hot, as though he burned more fiercely in answer to my own cool touch.†   (source)
  • …again upon a paunch almost dropsical, as though muscle and tissue had been courage or fortitude which the days or the years had consumed until only the indomitable skeleton was leftrising like a ruin or a landmarkabove the somnolent and impervious guts,and above that the collapsed face that gave the impression of the bones themselves being outside the flesh,lifted into the driving day with an expression at once fatalistic and of a child's astonished disappointment, until she turned…†   (source)
  • Impervious to fear is Rory's son: he of the prudent soul.†   (source)
  • The impervious navigator heard these lurid tidings, undismayed.†   (source)
  • …in the woods, we spring on prey, We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead, We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling over each other and interwetting each other, We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious, We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe, We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two, We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.†   (source)
  • The monster Cacus, more than half a beast, This hold, impervious to the sun, possess'd.†   (source)
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