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They would have effect limp at untraversable distances behind cause; they would keep destiny carefully abed and feed it upon spoon-victual.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

Man is a castaway upon a desert planet, isolated from other inhabited worlds—if there be any such—by millions of miles of untraversable space.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.

Odovacar himself, again a fugitive, sped across the plain south-eastward to Ravenna, compelled like so many Roman Emperors before him to shelter himself from the invader behind its untraversable network of rivers and canals.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

Everywhere, in this bleak snow-solitude, the way seemed barred, yet ever the trail curved and coiled, finding low divides and avoiding the higher and untraversable chains.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack

Even of those who admitted, in theory, that Cathay lay to the west of Europe, most deemed the distance untraversable.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John