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Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable placidity."

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah, yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens; yet, in the clefts of it, fountains, green, beautiful valleys with flowers.

From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Seiss, Joseph A.

To Emerson he writes in 1836, "My belief in a special Providence grows yearly stronger, unsubduable, impregnable"; and later, "Some strange belief in a special Providence was always in me at intervals."

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John

Mask them all, and the mere turn of the head would have shown an unsubduable nature.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

Whereupon, and instantly, child that I was, I knew anger, the old, red, intolerant wrath, ever unrestrainable and unsubduable.

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by London, Jack