The end of the march was Quebec impregnable!'

Those facing the St Lawrence, though weak in themselves, were practically impregnable, as the cliffs could not be scaled by any formed body.

But for a time the attention of Marie Antoinette was drawn off from political embarrassments by the event which alone seemed wanting to complete her personal happiness, and to place her position and popularity on an impregnable foundation.

His position indeed was impregnable; had he been well supplied with food, he could have held it against hundreds of men for a long period.

If we do not get the City by this Committee the City is impregnable.

What Spinoza says of laws is equally true of party-platforms,that those are strong which appeal to reason, but those are impregnable which compel the assent both of reason and the common affections of mankind.

We are just a little impregnable world of four,four loving hearts against the world.

The former is a spot which the Indians considered impregnable; but where, nevertheless, they were well beaten by the French during the last war.

The name of the untidy-looking young woman she had been about to repel was one of the most eminent in the impregnable quarter beyond the Seine.

Of course Madame de Trezac knew and remembered, and, secure in her own impregnable position, would never rest till she had driven out the intruder.

It was supposed that in those impregnable fastnesses an army of hundreds might defy the thousands of the crown.

The Castello of Ferrara, in the very heart of the city, standing four-square with its mighty crenellated towers, was one of the most famous fortresses of Italy and was believed to be impregnable; only by famine could it be taken.

Thérouanne was a strongly-fortified city, but the massive walls, which had formerly been impregnable, could not stand against a long siege with this new artillery.

The defences of the city were modern, extensive, and generally believed, even by military experts, to be little short of impregnable.

So strongly was the belief that Antwerp was impregnable implanted in every Belgian's mind, however, that up to the very last not one citizen in a thousand would admit that there was a possibility that it could be taken.

The Austrian siege guns had smashed and silenced the chain of supposedly impregnable forts to the south of the city with the same businesslike dispatch with which the same type of guns had smashed and silenced those other supposedly impregnable forts at Liege and Namur.

The Austrian siege guns had smashed and silenced the chain of supposedly impregnable forts to the south of the city with the same businesslike dispatch with which the same type of guns had smashed and silenced those other supposedly impregnable forts at Liege and Namur.

They were henceforth regarded as impregnable, and Boone's successors contented themselves with checking the Angrian power at sea.

To English, Dutch, French, and Portuguese alike, his fortresses were impregnable.

Juliet's eyes were fixed upon the mighty outline of High Shale Point that stood out like a fortress, dark, impregnable, against the calm of the evening sky.

Opposite through the blue mists of morning, rose Königstein, crowned with an impregnable fortress, and the crags of Lilienstein, with a fine forest around their base, frowned from the left bank.

This has been turned into a fortress, whose natural advantages make it entirely impregnable.

So confident was Vioménil, and so impregnable a defence did Strasburg seem to offer for the King should misfortune overtake him, that Calvert set out on his journey back to Maubeuge the following day buoyed up with the belief that should the army refuse its allegiance and support the King would find, at any rate, a safe asylum at Strasburg.

Well, this elementary truth, the most undeniable in the eyes of all men which can be produced, does not, despite the assurances which seem to uphold it, constitute an impregnable axiom; for there are cases when one and one do not make two!

The fortifications towards the sea are of amasing strength, and with the additions made since Lord Exmouth's attack, may be considered as almost impregnable.