Example Sentences

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I had no knowledge of this art; but neither custom, nor law, nor the impenetrableness of the mystery, required me to serve a seven years' apprenticeship to it.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

The stars, the night, the dark blue of heaven hid the secret in their impenetrableness.

From The Desert of Wheat by Grey, Zane

If he speaks, he is guilty of a sort of libel on his brother-electors, who are hereby implicitly reproached by him for their impenetrableness and cowardice.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William

In a coal-mine one loses his sense of direction, for there is no heaven above, no earth beneath—nothing but silence and black impenetrableness.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

Leverich shrugged his heavy shoulders at the bright impenetrableness that was like a shining armor.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday