Example Sentences

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Its edge did not, like that of their own weapons, blunt with usage, and they could well understand that, if armor could be formed of it, it would be altogether unpierceable.

From By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

He seems, if I may so say, to have transubstantiated his vast imagination and fancy into subtlety not to be evaded, acuteness to which nothing remains unpierceable, and indefatigable agility of argumentation.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

The iron line of the British was unpierceable!

From Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes by Fitchett, W. H. (William Henry)

"Estelle is a courageous woman and discreet with the unpierceable reticence of spontaneity."

From Balloons by Bibesco, Elizabeth

Sorrow, sin, pride, shame, ambition, failure, obstinacy, ignorance, selfishness, forgetfulness—enough to make ye veil your radiant faces in unpierceable clouds to hide forever the sight of so much crime and misery.

From A Romance of Two Worlds by Corelli, Marie