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Wherever the facts to be formulated contain such a contribution, we may logically, legitimately, and inexpugnably believe what we desire.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

Perhaps you have blood in your veins, perhaps celestial ichor, or perhaps you circulate nothing more gross than respirable air; but of one thing I am inexpugnably assured:—that you are no human being. 

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

Andalusia not being Gothic had never been Aryan, and it was one of her kings who carried his orthodoxy to Castile and established it inexpugnably at Toledo after he succeeded his heretical father there.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean

Daun himself is encamped at Reichenberg, within two miles of him, inexpugnably intrenched as usual; and the danger surely is not great: nevertheless both these Generals, wise by experience, keep their eyes open.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas