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• We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
• The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there. Christianity Today
• Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.
• In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
• Christianity, as opposed to institutionalism, is gaining ground, Individual religious experience as opposed to external authority is becoming "The impregnable rock" of faith. The Only Way to Save Civilization
• I'm satisfied this place is nearly impregnable.
• No doubt it will go the way of all seemingly impregnable empires of the past.
• Nourished by my indolence, it grew into a mammoth, impregnable oak of jealousy, bearing the most poisonous fruit. LOVE YOU MADLY
• Incredibly sturdy, it had been built to serve as a nuclear bomb shelter if necessary, supposedly an impregnable fortress of civil defense.
• They will establish impregnable fortresses.