All 4 Uses
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- Now it would be that still, cold, contained figure of the first phase who, even though lost and damned, remained somehow impervious and impregnable; then it would be the other, the second one, who in furious denial of that impregnability strove to drown in the black abyss of its own creating that physical purity which had been preserved too long now even to be lost.†
Chpt 12
- Now it would be that still, cold, contained figure of the first phase who, even though lost and damned, remained somehow impervious and impregnable; then it would be the other, the second one, who in furious denial of that impregnability strove to drown in the black abyss of its own creating that physical purity which had been preserved too long now even to be lost.†
Chpt 12
- They were now used to it, accustomed to it; now it had become a permanent part of their lives as well as of their experiences, standing beneath its windless column of smoke taller than and impregnable as a monument which could be returned to at any time.†
Chpt 13
- They speak quietly, without heat, giving pause to weigh one another's words, as two men already impregnable, each in his own conviction will.†
Chpt 13 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(impregnable as in: the fort was impregnable) able to withstand attack
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)