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God knows they are impossible—the great fatal, incurable, unpumpable leak of one's poor sinking bark.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

Arundel Dacre was proverbially unpumpable; but Peacock Piggott, whose communicative temper was an adage, how came he on a sudden so diplomatic?

From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield