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But he had lost none of his indomitableness, laughed at Tom's long face, and declared that he felt himself getting better and stronger every day.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

I have heard that with your accustomed indomitableness you have been attempting to instruct your possible jurors of the county upon the just principles of personal liberty and a republican form of government.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

But it was not so much from the source of animal vivacity that my difficulty came, as from a sense of the indomitableness of the spirit within me.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

It makes vivid and intense his scholarly handling of Greek myth; always the unchanging human aspect of it attracts him most, in Oenone's grief, in the indomitableness of Ulysses, the weariness and disillusionment in Tithonus.

From English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge by Mair, G. H. (George Herbert)

Such an air was so foreign to his usual bright indomitableness that Mrs. Quentin had the sense of an unfamiliar presence, in which she must observe herself, must raise hurried barriers against an alien approach.

From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Wharton, Edith