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He has received addresses, visited sights, been entertained, shaken hands with scores of thousands of people and submitted himself to the eager, yet unpenetrating gaze of vast multitudes.

From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.

But 'tis darkness so unpenetrating, And 'tis darkness so dismally deep!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 by Various

She watched him now through the glass with all the unpenetrating minuteness of an impassioned woman's observation.

From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Smoky flares of flame shone like spots of painted fire, bright and unpenetrating, from windows overhead; and sounds came to him through the woolly atmosphere, dulled and sonorous.

From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh

Wade's voice was of a peculiarly unpenetrating character.

From From the Housetops by Cootes, F. Graham