"Inexpugnable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... painfully uneasy, like a man who suspects he is unreasonably mistrusted. To combat that exasperating sensation he recommenced talking very fast. The sound of his words excited his thoughts, and in the play of darting thoughts he had glimpses now and then of the inexpugnable rock of his convictions, towering in solitary grandeur above the unprofitable waste ...
— Tales of Unrest • Joseph Conrad
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— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell
... awful and imposing than an ancient fortification. Its lofty, embattled walls, its bold, projecting, rounded towers, that pierce the sky, strike the imagination, and promise inexpugnable strength. But they are the very things that make its weakness. You may as well think of opposing one of these old fortresses to the mass of artillery brought by a French irruption into the field, as to think of resisting, by your old laws, and your old forms, the new destruction which the ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... it strikes you?" inquired his son. "I feared, rather, that it was an inexpugnable remnant of my religious training. If the notion is anarchic I can feel more at home with it. But do not forget that I am a doctor ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman |
