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able to withstand attack- Everyone had pitched in to help out, even the people she usually thought of as almost unassailable in their reserve: Kadir, Jia, Maryse.Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- The fixed Swedish assets were unassailable and genuine, available to public scrutiny, balance sheets, and audits.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The sealed window soothed her with its sturdy termination, its unassailable finality.Toni Morrison -- Sula
- The force of August Naab's argument for peace, entirely aside from his Christian repugnance to the shedding of blood, was plainly unassailable.Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
- It signified to him the unassailable power of the companies.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- BRADY'S oratory is unassailable; but his vanity—exposed by DRUMMOND'S prodding—is only funny.Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
- She said this like it was the unassailable truth.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- Even as his opponent tossed the ball in the air to begin his serve, Will felt unassailable.Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
- 'On the surface your logic might appear unassailable-'Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- In time the Mrs. Morrisons found unassailable reasons for not going to the little house by the bakery.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- Your position is quite unassailable, then?Franz Kafka -- The Trial
- So all I said was true, my attack on the profession was wholly just, my facts and figures unassailable.John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
- If only they could rescue her, but dementors in those numbers would be virtually unassailable.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- They will assemble everything under one unassailable roof, a temple to the human endeavor.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- She folded her arms across her chest, pleased with her unassailable logic.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- So touchy as a rule, Aziz was unassailable.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- So we must maintain defenses of unassailable strength.Ronald Reagan -- Tear Down This Wall Speech
- And every time I attempted to make a friend among the adult blacks, I was put off by an unassailable barrage of the unremitting yassuhs.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- Alessandro loved the stars for being unassailable, and believed that each and every one of them was his ally.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- He sat on sari flowers and from that unassailable position of strength surveyed the scene impassively.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things