1 Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to God.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 2 That face, as impenetrable and simple as granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy depression.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 3 He was transparent but impenetrable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS... 4 The enigma was more impenetrable than ever.
5 His whole life was now summed up in two words; absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW 6 You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 7 It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS 8 The thunder ceased; but the rain still continued, and the scene was enveloped in an impenetrable darkness.
9 Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's formation, but on this point he was impenetrable.
10 His satisfaction in which happy imposition on us, and in having preserved the impenetrable secret of the box, appeared to be a sufficient compensation to him for all his tortures.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 11 He talked and looked at her laughing eyes, which frightened him now with their impenetrable look, and, as he talked, he felt all the uselessness and idleness of his words.
12 At one time she would seem in love with him, and then she would become cold, irritable, and impenetrable.
13 But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 14 The contract completed, she raised between them a barrier impenetrable as a wall.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 15 There are two lines of old yew hedge, twelve feet high and impenetrable.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 3. The Problem