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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.

Wade's voice was of a peculiarly unpenetrating character.

From From the Housetops by Cootes, F. Graham

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

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)

His mouth—another space of Ellen's unpenetrating discernment, would have been reminded of Shakspeare's   "O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful   In the contempt and anger of his lip."

From The Wedding Guest by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)