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    unconquerable


    1. Not only the prejudices of the public, but, what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it


    2. Russia with its huge size and brutal winters is almost unconquerable


    3. How believable was it ever that the Soviets would conquer the US? How could they hope to cross oceans with a US Navy easily three times that of Soviet strength? How could any invasion of Alaska succeed over a frozen strait with no major ports and some of the highest frozen mountains in the world? Both the US and USSR are essentially unconquerable


    4. Remember, the US is essentially unconquerable


    5. 21 Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from Heaven


    6. reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection! 14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the


    7. 13 O holy nature and parental feeling and reward of bringing up children and unconquerable maternal affection! 14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing


    8. He had seen the unconquerable ferocity of the men who dwelt beyond the frontiers


    9. 'He is a true son of that savage race, and has proved himself, thus far, unconquerable


    10. Nemedia, unconquerable by Hyborians, reeled between the riders of the east and the swordsmen of the west, when a tribe of Aesir, wandering down from their snowy lands, came into the kingdom, and were engaged as mercenaries; they proved such able warriors that they not only beat off the Hyrkanians, but halted the eastward advance of the Picts

    11. Although Aureliano was just as ferocious a lover as his rival, it was Amaranta Úrsula who ruled in that paradise of disaster with her mad genius and her lyrical voracity, as if she had concentrated in her love the unconquerable energy that her great-great-grandmother had given to the making of little candy animals


    12. It would also reinforce the fear Malenkov’s associates had, that he was unconquerable


    13. And she stood regarding me, her eyes full of reluctant but unconquerable conscientiousness


    14. Milton's genius has filled the atmosphere with a brilliant phantasmagoria of contending angels, at once too human and too divine—a vision of chivalry which has resulted in creating either a sympathetic interest, as in Robert Burns’s verses, on behalf of the hero of the song—or an unconquerable skepticism with regard to the whole subject


    15. The urge, the ardor, the unconquerable will,


    16. But unfortunately Demi's most unconquerable prejudice was against going to bed, and that night he decided to go on a rampage


    17. Pratt, I think--nay, I am sure, it would never have happened; for though I left Longstaple with what I thought, at the time, a most unconquerable preference for his niece, yet had I then had any pursuit, any object to engage my time and keep me at a distance from her for a few months, I should very soon have outgrown the fancied attachment, especially by mixing more with the world, as in such case I must have done


    18. Have you never observed how invincible and unconquerable is spirit and how the presence of it makes the soul of any creature to be absolutely fearless and indomitable?


    19. In a few moments, however, her head began to move slowly, in a sign of deep, unconquerable disapprobation


    20. With the loss of the supposedly unconquerable position, a fresh wave of terror swept this could not possibly happen

    21. Early association with country solitudes had bred in him an unconquerable, and almost unreasonable, aversion to modern town life, and shut him out from such success as he might have aspired to by following a mundane calling in the impracticability of the spiritual one


    22. "Well, but how—we only want eighteen—here, put the rest back, child,—but how did you know about it?" said Caleb, who, in his unconquerable indifference to money, was beginning to be chiefly concerned about the relation the affair might have to Mary's affections


    23. If she wasn’t an anomaly, if Rykus wasn’t such an invincible, unconquerable soldier, they would be


    24. 1, “Invincible, Unsinkable, Unconquerable: The All Seasons Strategy,” has produced an average rate of just under 10% over the last 33 years, and lost money only four times (and one of the losses was only 0


    25. 1, “Invincible, Unsinkable, Unconquerable: The All Seasons Strategy,” you’ll see why it can be invaluable to have a small portion of gold in your portfolio


    26. Your amazing mind, you unconquerable heart, your constant innovation in business, and your remarkable philanthropic efforts excite me and millions of others entrusted to uphold the standard you’ve set so successfully and continue to sustain at Salesforce


    27. And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostov, whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: ‘I think you were talking of the Schon Grabern affair? Were you there?’


    28. Then the child began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished to run


    29. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had returned: she had but one thought now,—to flee at full speed through the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the lighted candles


    30. He had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him

    31. And without attempting any farther remonstrance, she left Fanny to her fate, a fate which, had not Fanny’s heart been guarded in a way unsuspected by Miss Crawford, might have been a little harder than she deserved; for although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen (or one should not read about them) as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as belonged to her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship (though the courtship only of a fortnight) of such a man as Crawford, in spite of there being some previous ill opinion of him to be overcome, had not her affection been engaged elsewhere


    32. She could not live any longer in such solitary wretchedness; and she made her way to the Park, through difficulties of walking which she had deemed unconquerable a week before, for the chance of hearing a little in addition, for the sake of at least hearing his name


    33. Pratt, I think—nay, I am sure, it would never have happened; for though I left Longstaple with what I thought, at the time, a most unconquerable preference for his niece, yet had I then had any pursuit, any object to engage my time and keep me at a distance from her for a few months, I should very soon have outgrown the fancied attachment, especially by mixing more with the world, as in such case I must have done


    34. And without attempting any farther remonstrance, she left Fanny to her fate, a fate which, had not Fanny's heart been guarded in a way unsuspected by Miss Crawford, might have been a little harder than she deserved; for although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen (or one should not read about them) as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as belonged to her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship (though the courtship only of a fortnight) of such a man as Crawford, in spite of there being some previous ill opinion of him to be overcome, had not her affection been engaged elsewhere


    35. As I pressed her dear lips to mine the old feeling of unconquerable power and authority rose in me


    36. Sara was crying! The unconquerable Sara! It seemed to denote something new—some mood she had never known


    37. His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors


    38. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back


    39. "Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it


    40. "Oh, oh, oh! how this splinter gores me now! Accursed fate! that the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate!"

    41. But suddenly I felt an unconquerable disgust to tell such a story


    42. To this sense of shame and guilt was added an unconquerable feeling of loathing and horror


    43. And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostóv, whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “I think you were talking of the Schön Grabern affair? Were you there?”


    44. At first he thought exultingly of Bernheim and the Princess Rabomirski, and the rage of their wicked hearts; of the future glorified by his little princess of the unconquerable soul; of the present’s mystic consummation of their marriage


    45. They have not, it is true, taken into their own hands the hatchet and the knife, devoted to indiscriminate massacre; but they have let loose the savages, armed with these cruel instruments; have allured them into their service, and carried them to battle by their sides, eager to glut their savage thirst with the blood of the vanquished, and to finish the work of torture and death on maimed and defenceless captives: and, what was never before seen, British commanders have extorted victory over the unconquerable valor of our troops, by presenting to the sympathy of their chief awaiting massacre from their savage associates


    46. Have we not already territory enough? Is it desirable to incorporate with us a people composed of heterogeneous materials, who are not only unaccustomed to our institutions, but many of whom entertain an unconquerable hatred for them? I believe it would have been better had we never acquired any foreign territory at all


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    Synonyms for "unconquerable"

    unconquerable insuperable

    "unconquerable" definitions

    not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome


    incapable of being surmounted or excelled