How To Use Impregnable In A Sentence
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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
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The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there.
Christianity Today
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Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth.
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In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
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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
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I'm satisfied this place is nearly impregnable.
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No doubt it will go the way of all seemingly impregnable empires of the past.
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Nourished by my indolence, it grew into a mammoth, impregnable oak of jealousy, bearing the most poisonous fruit.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Incredibly sturdy, it had been built to serve as a nuclear bomb shelter if necessary, supposedly an impregnable fortress of civil defense.
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They will establish impregnable fortresses.
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Later, he began building model castles, surrounded by fortified emplacements, and he spent hours studying the virtually impregnable fortifications of Vauban.
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an impregnable argument
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He required forceful persuasion to forego county commitments to fly back for the final, but no-one smiled brighter after the previously impregnable Ireland had been clinically defeated by 47 runs.
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Mr. FAZIO: I think there was I wouldn't use the term arrogance, but I think there was a presumption that their long-term majority was impregnable.
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But he had other things in mind - plans that had been consuming his soul since he had escaped from La Fortaleza, the once impregnable fortress that had fallen a little over a year ago.
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Those who mock France for building forts that were supposedly "outflanked" should know the "impregnable" modern US fortifications at Manila, and Britain's Fortress Singapore, were both taken from the rear by the Imperial Japanese Army.
Eric Margolis: Four Myths About World War II
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The old Dutch fort with its thick high walls looks virtually impregnable.
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I admire, exposed unto the violence of fire, grows only hot, and liquefies, but consumeth not; so when the consumable and volatile pieces of our bodies shall be refined into a more impregnable and fixed temper, like gold, though they suffer from the action of flames, they shall never perish, but lie immortal in the arms of fire.
Religio Medici
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Was I (horrors) the pathetically unfit nonathlete battering himself against a force of nature that can pulverize rock into sand, sink impregnable ocean liners and swallow late-thirtyish guys like me for breakfast?
Surf's Up!
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However, instead of building the fort on a hill, the impassable wetlands were used to create an impregnable site, the biggest marshland in England.
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Later, he began building model castles, surrounded by fortified emplacements, and he spent hours studying the virtually impregnable fortifications of Vauban.
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It must be impregnable, especially if attacked by the adherents of those long established religious beliefs that confer privileges.
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The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station-houses.
Bleak House
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Eventually, without losing a single man, this unit of the Royal Navy systematically destroyed all French fortifications, more than one hundred heavy cannon, stretching about seventy miles from San Sebastián to Santander (except for the well-nigh impregnable Castro-Urdiales).
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The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there.
Christianity Today
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The castle had been built with a good eye for defense; this place was virtually impregnable.
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The vile rock called St. Helena still remained impregnable.
A Splendid Hazard
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Her body with its generous curves still followed its own limpid rhythms and her long braid with its colourful Patiala parandis moved slowly to and fro upon that impregnable behind.
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Buchanan, as an arx inexpugnabilis, and, indeed, it must have been impregnable by the antient manner of besieging.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Cope marched north from Stirling to intercept the Jacobite forces but found them entrenched on the Corrieyairack pass in an impregnable position and diverted instead to Inverness.
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Then, without warning, you've got the world's number one goalkeeper in self-destruct mode, the England captain glancing an own goal home and a seemingly impregnable lead overturned.
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Singapore, an island at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula, was considered a vital part of the British Empire and supposedly impregnable as a fortress.
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In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
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It was this land side, containing the citadel and other works, which so impressed outsiders with the idea of impregnable strength.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
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Despite burglar alarms and window locks, homes are never impregnable against determined thieves.
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A fragile defense conceded five times as tactical confusion turned an impregnable rearguard into a poor one.
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Like his stargazing colleagues everywhere, Butler speaks in a language that can often seem mysterious and impregnable—throwing out references to laws of physics, categories of stars and planets, and modes of measurement that are foreign to the uninitiated.
First Contact
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It was strongly fortified and deemed so impregnable that the blind and lame were sent to man the battlements, in derisive mockery of the
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Because the United States to take the Keynesian state intervention policy after World War II increase in national strength, the world's more powerful position impregnable .
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He was impregnable, unbeatable, nothing, no creature could even come close to conquering the mighty Kong.
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Labyrinthine streets of ancient slum housing traversed the steep hill up to the impregnable city walls.
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The vile rock called St. Helena still remained impregnable.
A Splendid Hazard
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Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument -- to use a logical term -- that is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell.
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
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Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument ” to use a logical term ” that is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell.
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon Littleton Waller Tazewell
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Moses with an actual fire calcined or burnt the Golden Calf unto powder: for that mystical metal of Gold, whose solary [125] and celestial nature I admire, exposed unto the violence of fire, grows onely hot, and liquifies, but consumeth not; so, when the consumable and volatile pieces of our bodies shall be refined into a more impregnable and fixed temper like Gold, though they suffer from the action of flames, they shall never perish, but lye immortal in the arms of fire.
Religio Medici
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In their accounts of hunting for a way out, they provide a survey of a border territory, an impregnable zone through which the people imprisoned above would never pass.
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I also knew that if we could by any means defend this doorway the murderers could get in nowhere else; for the palace is absolutely impregnable, that is, since the secret door by which Sorais had entered on that memorable night of attempted murder had, by Nyleptha's order, been closed up with masonry.
Allan Quatermain
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He sipped from a can of Cherry Coke and exchanged a look with his straight man Munger, whose myopic self-containment seemed impregnable.
American Everyman
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The victory stretched their 100 percent winning sequence to 19 matches and they now have an impregnable nine point lead at the top.
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And the achievement — the glottal suspense of "Beat It," the aspirated frenzy of "Dont Stop 'til You Get Enough," the roiling, implacable funk of "Billie Jean," the impregnable position of "Thriller" as the greatest novelty single of all time — was, even as my taste in pop became more jaded and skeptical, persistently superb.
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THE MONITOR is a long, wide, and flat-bottomed vessel, with vertical sides and pointed ends, requiring but a very shallow depth of water to float in, though heavily loaded with impregnable armour on her sides and a bombproof deck, on which is placed a shotproof revolving turret, which contains two very heavy guns.
The American Iron-Clad Vessels
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The old Dutch fort with its thick high walls looks virtually impregnable.
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The old Dutch fort with its thick high walls looks virtually impregnable.
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So he built an "impregnable" fortress atop the rock.
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Still, to perfect one's play at Worms, you will have to spend a lot of time learning the nuances of each weapon and tricks on how to defeat what seems like an impregnable AI.
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The knight was bolted into a very heavy and largely inflexible armour equipped with a lance rest; jousting almost standing in his stirrups he was virtually impregnable - which was the idea.
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Surrey have been building up an impregnable lead in this season's County Championship.
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The Bundesbank's seemingly impregnable position has begun to weaken.
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It was stacked with the usual assortment of crates and containers, impregnable behind an ingenious array of clamps and locks.
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The conventional wisdom having been made more or less identical with sound scholarship, its position is virtually impregnable.
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impregnable self-confidence
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The wall of the turret is a series of cellular spaces, like the chine of a shell-fish; and all these iron cells are to be filled up with teak, making one solid and uniform mass, which is to be again strengthened and rendered well-nigh impregnable by armour-plates.
Her Majesty's Ship Majestic Keeping Watch over the Steam-Rams in the Mersey.
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But Preston were knocked sideways by the shock of seeing their impregnable lead suddenly wiped out.
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Between them they created a seemingly impregnable fortress, naturally protected on three sides by cliffs and defended by concentric lines of mutually supporting fortifications.
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Well might they think it impregnable, for it certainly was so to any but British troops.
Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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The walls surrounding the city were impregnable, never before breached by an attacking army.
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He's seen what looked like an impregnable 22-point lead slashed to just two ahead of me.
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The west side of the building is nearly monolithic, appearing impregnable, with ribbon windows and a sheer precipice of craggy stone.
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In the face of these pressures, Anglican natural theology retreated into the apparently impregnable fortress of biology.
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You will storm that great fortress which men call impregnable -- you will storm it and you will vanquish it; and you will come home crowned with glory and honour!
French and English A Story of the Struggle in America
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Recently, the impregnable force field surrounding this device began to display a countdown clock that suggested it would deliver its message at noon yesterday.
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The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station – houses.
Bleak House
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Surrey have been building up an impregnable lead in this season's County Championship.
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On 15 September French and Serbian mountain troops successfully attacked hitherto impregnable Bulgarian positions.
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After all, within the space of a three-month election campaign she managed to squander a seemingly impregnable lead of 22 percent over the SPD.
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Metcalfe said her department had put into place an "impregnable" security system which had been breached.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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She felt rejuvenated by the water as it washed over her and breathed deep the billows of steam clouding the air like an impregnable fog.
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Yes sir, but we think that the position is impregnable and we can hold it against far superior forces.
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The Romans had built a virtually impregnable fortress there.
Christianity Today
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He took a set off him and broke his serve that otherwise appears totally impregnable.
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Surrey have been building up an impregnable lead in this season's County Championship.
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Heavily fortified, the impregnable harbor is guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton: Book summary
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Charleston is a strongly fortified place and I think impregnable from the water side.
Letter from Wright M. Carter to Young J. and Mollie Allen,May 6, 1861
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The key to the Belgian defence along the Albert Canal was the supposedly impregnable fortress of Eben-Emael.
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General Byng's attack covered the whole length of what had become known as the redoubtable and supposedly impregnable "Hindenburg line," so called because it had been established by that greatest of all German military geniuses, Field Marshal von Hindenburg.
The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders Or, the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge
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The monastery in which the novel takes place is supposed to be impregnable and unbreachable, which is why Sarge chose it for his boarding school.
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But with enormous courage they toppled three seemingly impregnable dictators.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are a boundary, a dividing line, a wall impregnable and unscalable.
The Night-Born
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Upon further inspection of the breastworks, I have come to the conclusion that the town was almost impregnable.
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The old Dutch fort with its thick high walls looks virtually impregnable.
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There has to be something; no fortress is completely impregnable.
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That ageless veteran, Michael Collins, turned in another stellar performance in a defensive unit that was impregnable.
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The team built up an impregnable 5-1 lead.
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Even in the impregnable fortress that was Robert Inglewood's twenty-fifth floor office on Greene Avenue, the sounds of the howling wind and pounding rain were deafening.
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an impregnable fortress
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And never fear: the harmless, "impregnable" Iranians will be more than happy to aid their Shia religious brethren to victory in that battle.
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He was impregnable, unbeatable, and nothing, no creature could even come close to conquering the mighty Kong.
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It must be impregnable, especially if attacked by the adherents of those long established religious beliefs that confer privileges.
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It is not the eyesight that goes, merely that there is a constant chipping away at the previously impregnable wall of confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fusty literary empire became impregnable.
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This ancient stronghold of the Volsci, fanatically loyal to Carbo's cause, stood atop a mountain twenty miles to the southwest, and gladly opened the gates in its impregnable walls to receive Ahenobarbus's ten thousand men.
Fortune's Favorites
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Given the regular news reports of enterprise data lost through laptop theft, third party misfeasance, WEP hacking, loss of backup tapes, disgruntled employees, etc., it’s not like enterprise data is currently held in impregnable Kryptonite fortresses.
Another Half-Dozen Half-Truths of the Cloud
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But sometime during the final week your impregnable fortress crashes and burns, but you land on your feet at the very end of the month.
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Austria ruled directly only in the newly formed Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, but from the impregnable fortresses of the Quadrilateral in the central Po Valley Austrian bayonets could reach any part of Italy.
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Despite burglar alarms and window locks, homes are never impregnable against determined thieves.
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The wall of the turret is a series of cellular spaces, like the chine of a shell-fish; and all these iron cells are to be filled up with teak, making one solid and uniform mass, which is to be again strengthened and rendered well-nigh impregnable by armour-plates.
Her Majesty's Ship Majestic Keeping Watch over the Steam-Rams in the Mersey.
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The Bundesbank's seemingly impregnable position has begun to weaken.
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The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station – houses.
Bleak House
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A seemingly impregnable and utterly ruthless regime fell to pieces in a few hours.
