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  • I knew that even my most complex and powerful protective spells and charms were unlikely to be invincible if he ever returned to full power.†   (source)
  • She fortified herself with an energy drink and gummy worms, and when the caffeine and sugar kicked in, she felt invincible.†   (source)
  • They wore this metal armor to protect them and make them invincible.†   (source)
  • Hanna raised an eyebrow at Mona, feeling drunk, hyped, and completely invincible.†   (source)
  • Grown-ups were always saying that teenagers drove too fast or got high or didn't use condoms because they thought they were invincible.†   (source)
  • It's easier to keep up the irreverent, invincible manner we've all adopted when there are more of us.†   (source)
  • Phineas stopped talking for once, so that now I could hear cricket noises and bird cries of dusk, a gymnasium truck gunning along an empty athletic road a quarter of a mile away, a burst of faint, isolated laughter carried to us from the back door of the gym, and then over all, cool and matriarchal, the six o'clock bell from the Academy Building cupola, the calmest, most carrying bell toll in the world, civilized, calm, invincible, and final.†   (source)
  • The Silvers are not invincible.†   (source)
  • Part of Kate believed this — a very important part, for Kate's sense of invincibility was the main thing that had sustained her all her young life alone†   (source)
  • June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.†   (source)
  • I will grow stronger by the hour, until I am invincible.†   (source)
  • The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible.†   (source)
  • "You look invincible," my mother said one night.†   (source)
  • You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible.†   (source)
  • It didn't make him invincible to the whims of the Nazi occupiers, but it made him a lot less vulnerable than he had been when he was unemployed.†   (source)
  • I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.†   (source)
  • What you are talking about is invincibility.†   (source)
  • He taught me that heroes aren't always invincible
    And that the magic
    is within me.†   (source)
  • I looked invincible with my fake cartoon muscles.†   (source)
  • Individually you were powerful, but together you were invincible.†   (source)
  • Overseas, on deployment, in the war, I seemed invincible.†   (source)
  • We were walking now, a belligerent, blind sort of walking that men do when they are wildly drunk and filled with hatred for others, while at the same time they feel invincible.†   (source)
  • Not afraid, but as if the fall challenged him—as if there were no empty space he could not fill with his belief in his own invincibility.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, HMS Invincible was just over here for the NATO exercise, sailed from Norfolk Monday night.†   (source)
  • It was the pace of the invincible.†   (source)
  • Marcos spent two weeks assembling the contents according to an instruction manual written in English, which he was able to decipher thanks to his invincible imagination and a small dictionary.†   (source)
  • It's a SEAL thing, our unspoken invincibility, the silent code of the elite warriors of the U.S. Armed Forces.†   (source)
  • The movie was Invincible, a true story about a South Philadelphia bartender who went on to play for the Philadelphia Eagles.†   (source)
  • She realized that he could hardly breathe with fear, but his determination was invincible.†   (source)
  • Everyone still believed that Hitler was invincible.†   (source)
  • The soldiers threw themselves at him in an attempt to subdue him through sheer numbers, but to no avail: Katrina was in danger, and he was invincible.†   (source)
  • This was the second pillar of Blue Team's aura of invincibility.†   (source)
  • We don't talk about the danger—but what I imagine is a cartoon version, bullets flying and each boy a superhero, running, invincible, through a spray of gunfire.†   (source)
  • But on this expedition he had been cast in the role of invincible guide, there to look after me and the other clients; we had been specifically indoctrinated not to question our guides' judgment.†   (source)
  • This same invincible figure has been held responsible for some blunder, or has for some other reason fallen out of favour with his employers, leaves the house where he came to fame and is never heard of again.†   (source)
  • The sense of eerie and invincible stillness washed off, the aura of knowingness, the feeling he conveyed of an ancient and terrible secret.†   (source)
  • I feel light and invincible, the best kind of tipsy.†   (source)
  • There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.†   (source)
  • I ran through the alley, inconsolable, turned down the sidewalk, invincible, five minutes later, I was scared.†   (source)
  • Workers who use methamphetamine may feel energized and invincible, but are actually putting themselves at much greater risk of having an accident.†   (source)
  • He beat her up a lot—" He stared at her, feeling himself grow pale, remembering more than he wanted to remember, feeling his hope and his hope of safety threatened by invincible, unnamed forces within himself.†   (source)
  • I fall on my knees, cursing the fact that I'm not invincible.†   (source)
  • In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.†   (source)
  • He resisted the introduction, but she married him anyway, only to discover that he was suffering from and enjoying an invincible melancholy.†   (source)
  • I didn't know if I was invincible to gunshots.†   (source)
  • Today I am invincible.†   (source)
  • The Americans were invincible in my opinion.†   (source)
  • They strutted with an aura of invincibility, and along with some of the Mexican students who put knives in their tall pompadours they absolutely intimidated the white girls and those Black and Mexican students who had no shield of fearlessness.†   (source)
  • Inevitably, Major — de Coverley was among them, seated straight as a ramrod in a jeep he had obtained from somewhere, glancing neither right nor left as the artillery fire burst about his invincible head and lithe young infantrymen with carbines went loping up along the sidewalks in the shelter of burning buildings or fell dead in doorways.†   (source)
  • I'd read the stories, Max.... Thought if I fixed that spear, it would make me invincible.†   (source)
  • A splendid way to die before he finished growing that mustache, but young knights always think themselves invincible.†   (source)
  • If the bodies that provided the shadows for Mordred's invincible army had to be kept alive, then it stands to reason that all of the people in the lands he conquered are still there, with no Shadow-Born to keep us out.†   (source)
  • As he said he must close the church, Mr. Mompellion began weeping, too, his exhaustion making his tears invincible.†   (source)
  • Could you have stopped when it made you feel so powerful, so invincible, so righteous?†   (source)
  • Some man hidden deep in the mountains of Switzerland, wringing his hands in anticipation of destroying the world with the invincible virus?†   (source)
  • And that motive made them invincible.†   (source)
  • Besides, invincibility is well worth the wait.†   (source)
  • I hadn't touched weed in over a week yet somehow I floated above the ground, my blood ran warm in my veins and I felt high—no, not high...invincible.†   (source)
  • True, I'm the leader, I'm Max the Invincible—but I'm also just a fourteen-year-old kid.†   (source)
  • When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer...slow, tedious lumbering, laborious, but invincible.†   (source)
  • He looked invincible.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if I may, are the feet of invincibility.†   (source)
  • With Marsha I was invincible.†   (source)
  • You thought you were invincible, you and he, didn't you?†   (source)
  • "I desire and propose, O my father," said Rabadash, "that you immediately call out your invincible armies and invade the thrice-accursed land of Narnia and waste it with fire and sword and add it to your illimitable empire, killing their High King and all of his blood except the queen Susan.†   (source)
  • The wizard believes that he is invincible, that much is certain.†   (source)
  • The idea that this invincible robot could feel that he had failed, could feel so deeply and personally disgraced that he wanted to run away, hide his face among strangers, and offer the excuse that his leaving would be "best for the outfit," shook me up as much, and in a way even more, than seeing Ted flogged.†   (source)
  • With one kill like that he re-establishes the legend of his utter invincibility.†   (source)
  • Inside the classroom, I take my seat, feeling infamous and invincible and twitchy and strangely exhilarated, as if I just escaped, well, death.†   (source)
  • She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible determination.†   (source)
  • It sounded so warlike, so vengeful, so invincible.†   (source)
  • 'Together,' Konrad is saying, 'our two systems could be invincible.†   (source)
  • And it occurred to us that we might be too late, that soon we might be standing alone against the invincible Germans.†   (source)
  • They had finished with the task of combining their thoughts to force upon him the vision of their leader's invincibility.†   (source)
  • If he were not Hodge—invincible Hodge!†   (source)
  • We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. We were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of Vietnam.†   (source)
  • Until this morning those hotel servants had been telling one another stories about the invincibility of their people in the forest; and those hotel servants were men who, given an uprising in the town, would have done terrible things with their small hands.†   (source)
  • For featureless on the abyss, invincible, moved monstrous intuitions.†   (source)
  • Intellect may fail you, but the killer instinct is invincible.†   (source)
  • The suburb, also, is as invincible and fatal as factories, and even beautiful South Africa, whose soil looks outraged by those pretty little suburbs creeping over it like a disease, cannot escape.†   (source)
  • He believes it will make you invincible.†   (source)
  • The force, though mighty, is not invincible.†   (source)
  • His belly would've made him an invincible bumper car.†   (source)
  • The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.†   (source)
  • We think that we are invincible because we are.†   (source)
  • He is the one who receives the messages from the Invincible One, but only she can interpret them.†   (source)
  • A world I never dreamed of exists, and it is invincible.†   (source)
  • He believed he was making himself invincible.†   (source)
  • He is humanity, the beating, unbeaten, invincible heart of it.†   (source)
  • He wants Invincible out on their seaward flank.†   (source)
  • To see one would be to ask for help, and I believed myself invincible.†   (source)
  • The prisoners heard it approach, shaking the pavement with its weight like an invincible pachyderm.†   (source)
  • Invincible masters of death, Grindelwald and Dumbledore!†   (source)
  • I felt invincibly strong—the way a god should feel.†   (source)
  • I've got the curse of Achilles now I'll all invincible and stuff?'†   (source)
  • You weren't invincible when you were a teenager.†   (source)
  • And then, at the same time, we're also being taught to think of ourselves as invincible bad-asses.†   (source)
  • At that moment, I realized that Mamaw was not invincible.†   (source)
  • IN A WAY, WE ALL THOUGHT WE WERE INVINCIBLE.†   (source)
  • For the moment, Clarisse was as invincible as I was.†   (source)
  • It's like the day of the bombing, when I realized Silvers were not invincible.†   (source)
  • He believes that the Elder Wand removes his last weakness and makes him truly invincible.†   (source)
  • It just couldn't be...The Invincible Ryan was in the Invincible's communications room.†   (source)
  • Next we can get Pogy and Invincible staked out on their path.†   (source)
  • Silvers might be strong, but we are not invincible.†   (source)
  • The Invincible "Periscope, starboard bow!" the speaker announced.†   (source)
  • The data they developed was transmitted by digital link to the Invincible's command center.†   (source)
  • The Invincible seemed to be corkscrewing in a following sea.†   (source)
  • Two submarines, range two miles from Invincible, bearing zero-two-zero.†   (source)
  • Flag quarters on HMS Invincible were not quite to the standard of those on the Kennedy—but close.†   (source)
  • The Invincible "One ping from the contact area, sir, sounds Soviet," the speaker reported.†   (source)
  • We move Invincible inshore to handle the ASW work.†   (source)
  • We'll also call Invincible and have them send a bird back to ferry you out, Ryan.†   (source)
  • His expected responsibility was the Moskva group, with the Invincible handling the Kirov's.†   (source)
  • For the moment, are we agreed to position Invincible and Pogy for the intercept?†   (source)
  • HMS Invincible was now out of operation and about halfway home.†   (source)
  • The Invincible "Positive sonar contact," said the metal speaker.†   (source)
  • Then I get orders to ferry a VIP from Kennedy to Invincible.†   (source)
  • The Invincible "Come up, Marko," Barclay urged.†   (source)
  • "Leaves Invincible kind of naked, though," the CNO, Admiral Foster, noted.†   (source)
  • The Invincible "We timed that rather nicely," Admiral White said.†   (source)
  • Let's get Pogy and Invincible there for starters, then we figure out how to warn him.†   (source)
  • The Invincible would have to make the rendezvous in daylight, and there was not time for that.†   (source)
  • The admiral explained that he was the commander of the Invincible's marine detachment.†   (source)
  • The Invincible was moving on the seas, but not as much as before.†   (source)
  • We could use Invincible, the four escorts, and the three attack boats.†   (source)
  • Captain, on Invincible we had an officer send the message with a blinker light.†   (source)
  • I want Invincible between them and the contact.†   (source)
  • The Pogy joined formation with the Invincible, standing as sonar sentry twenty miles to her east.†   (source)
  • What we can do is pretend to release Invincible.†   (source)
  • HMS Invincible Ryan was now wearing a Royal Naval uniform.†   (source)
  • While I was sitting on Invincible I read over a CIA report on people who come over to our side.†   (source)
  • Ryan, you said you're flying out to Invincible.†   (source)
  • The Invincible "How far is she from us?"†   (source)
  • The Invincible "Hunter, are you up on your Morse?"†   (source)
  • Tell Invincible to get a Sea King down here straightaway.†   (source)
  • So, you fly out to Kennedy tonight, then on to Invincible.†   (source)
  • The only thing that bothers me is that Invincible doesn't have all that much ASW capacity.†   (source)
  • The Invincible Ryan watched from the bridge as the medics carried the stretcher into the island.†   (source)
  • The Invincible was scarcely a half the Kennedy's size.†   (source)
  • THE EIGHTH DAY FRIDAY, 10 DECEMBER HMS Invincible Ryan awoke in the dark.†   (source)
  • The Invincible "One more ping, Admiral."†   (source)
  • The landing on HMS Invincible was different from the COD's arrival on the Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Ryan wanted to see Invincible's combat information center.†   (source)
  • Invincible's not too far away, though, and I have Pogy out there, too.†   (source)
  • It was an indication that Niedermann was functioning, and a functioning Niedermann was invincible.†   (source)
  • Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible.†   (source)
  • Boys of sixteen always believe they are immortal and invincible.†   (source)
  • I want him back the way he was, unchanged, invincible.†   (source)
  • The knights had come, invincible in their steel, killing everyone who stayed to fight.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, well," Hazel said, "it didn't make us invincible.†   (source)
  • We did not know if the soldiers were invincible, or if they were even men at all.†   (source)
  • He seemed invincible, uncatchable; he didn't make any mistakes, and disn't leave any clues.†   (source)
  • With all your power concentrated in this dimension, you will be well-nigh invincible here.†   (source)
  • Was it possible that his seemingly invincible army had a secret weakness?†   (source)
  • He was invincible; he was the wildest demon in Blys.†   (source)
  • It looked scoured, there was something invincibly impersonal in it.†   (source)
  • He was invincible.... Trembling anew, he stared out at the dreadnoughts like a rabid wolf.†   (source)
  • With one kill like that he re-establishes the legend to its full invincibility.†   (source)
  • Your feet are repugnant, objectionable, and invincible.†   (source)
  • I'm not invincible," Eragon pointed out.†   (source)
  • Being invincible, it turned out, came in very handy.†   (source)
  • Propping himself against the spear, he stared in disbelief at this seemingly invincible opponent.†   (source)
  • The Morrigan was right; he was invincible.†   (source)
  • But give me your heart, and we shall be invincible.†   (source)
  • The ritual will be done and I will be invincible.†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter if you manage to drain my essence and become invincible.†   (source)
  • With your invincibility gone, he will be able to kill you.†   (source)
  • She is as much to be feared as her Lord, who is ruthless and invincible.†   (source)
  • If I had murdered Harry Potter, the Dark Lord could not have used his blood to regenerate, making him invincible —†   (source)
  • Leaving his enemy dead upon the floor the oldest brother proceeded to an inn, where he boasted loudly of the powerful wand he had snatched from Death himself, and of how it made him invincible.†   (source)
  • You see, we're invincible.†   (source)
  • The day passing as time only can under the reckless abandon of childhood's invincibility, of its innocence.†   (source)
  • She first tried to kill them with a broom, then with insecticides, and finally with lye, but the next day they were back in the same place, still passing by, tenacious and invincible.†   (source)
  • Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.†   (source)
  • I felt nigh invincible.†   (source)
  • Invincible.†   (source)
  • Pietro Crespi had not been dictated by a desire for vengeance, as everyone had thought, nor had the slow martyrdom with which she had frustrated the life of Colonel Gerineldo Marquez been determined by the gall of her bitterness, as everyone had thought, but that both actions had been a mortal struggle between a measureless love and an invincible cowardice, and that the irrational fear that Amaranta had always had of her own tormented heart had triumphed in the end.†   (source)
  • True, the fiery-eyed messenger who spoke to the Fist of the Invincible One promised they will be given victory if they continue to be pious and obedient and brave and cunning, but there are always so many ifs in these matters.†   (source)
  • And so, between operatic encores and Neapolitan serenades, his creative talent and his invincible entrepreneurial spirit made him the hero of river navigation during the time of its greatest splendor.†   (source)
  • When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are.†   (source)
  • We're invincible, right?†   (source)
  • He cursed his invincible sentimentality and tried to see her as his brother's lover, a woman on whom he had just performed an abortion, but he immediately realized how impossible that was and surrendered to the pleasure and suffering of loving her.†   (source)
  • Tonight, we were invincible.†   (source)
  • And I certainly did feel invincible.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza was no longer the only child, both spoiled and tyrannized by her father, but the lady and mistress of an empire of dust and cobwebs that could be saved only by the strength of invincible love.†   (source)
  • You're going to ask how the "invincible" thing worked: if I magically dodged every weapon, or if the weapons hit me and just didn't harm me.†   (source)
  • Invincible?†   (source)
  • I thought that, if we ever found it, it might be useful in hiding Ariana, but our interest in the Cloak was mainly that it completed the trio, for the legend said that the man who had united all three objects would then be truly master of death, which we took to mean 'invincible.'†   (source)
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