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Some are concerned simply with planning the logistics of future wars; others devise larger and larger rocket bombs, more and more powerful explosives, and more and more impenetrable armor—plating; others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents, or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies; others strive to produce a vehicle that shall bore its way…  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Although Langdon knew the soluble ink of a watermark stylus could easily be wiped away, he could not imagine why Fache would erase evidence.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

He had to do it in three layers: first the muscle, then the fibrous tissue, then the skin, some seventy stitches in each layer, the inner two of them done with soluble thread.†  (source) Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer, 1995

When I finally did power it up, I felt an insoluble fear.†  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

"Sugar's awfully soluble," Quentin said, biting his thin lip.†  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

"That is very close to solubility," the AI pointed out.†  (source) John Ringo, Live Free or Die, 2010

In fact, the facility with which I shall arrive, or have arrived, at the solution of this mystery, is in the direct ratio of its apparent insolubility in the eyes of the police.†  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1850

The satisfaction of one's needs—good food, cleanliness, and freedom—now that he was deprived of all this, seemed to Pierre to constitute perfect happiness; and the choice of occupation, that is, of his way of life—now that that was so restricted—seemed to him such an easy matter that he forgot that a superfluity of the comforts of life destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation—such freedom as his wealth, his education, and his social position had given him in his own life—is just what makes the choice of occupation insolubly difficult and destroys the desire and possibility of having an occupation.†  (source) Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

In Religion Two—a heavy-reading course in "religion and literature"—we were instructed to divine Tolstoy's meaning: "There was no solution," Tolstoy writes in Anna Karenina, "but the universal solution that life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

Is nail polish water-soluble?†  (source) Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush, 2009

Her presence proved somehow less irreducible to soft particles than Ralph had expected in the natural perturbation of his sense of the perfect solubility of that of his cousin; for the correspondent of the Interviewer prompted mirth in him, and he had long since decided that the crescendo of mirth should be the flower of his declining days.†  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2, 1881

In fact, the facility with which I shall arrive, or have arrived, at the solution of this mystery, is in the direct ratio of its apparent insolubility in the eyes of the police.†  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Tales, 1850

That's too bad, since it sets up an insoluble problem: no one could have shot him but God.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003