Her inclosing flesh was so fine and sweet, it seemed impossible it could be an impassable, almost impenetrable wall.
The desolate sky was one thick, impenetrablemass of swiftly flying clouds.
The ship was brought to anchor and the crew landed in order to explore the country, but the Spanish adventurers found only thick, impenetrable forests, and deep swamplands which were filled with quagmire and with fever.
The chains of light are broken, and we can almost believe our internal night to be as impenetrable to God's eyes as that external, to our own!
Drawing hers within his arm, he still kept hold of it, and her rounded shoulder softly pressed his, as they loitered out between the impenetrable sphinxes.
The darkness was the most impenetrable that the young man had ever seen; Long Island Sound was like a pocket.
He would have found him in a chamber of impenetrable privacy, listening while the Prince of India proved the calculations of a horoscope decisive of the favorable time for beginning war with the Byzantines.
Once he fancied he heard a stirring in the rhododendron where its large waxen leaves banked themselves thickly a hundred yards distant, and his eyes turned that way seeking to pierce the impenetrable screen--but unavailingly.
The fellow had been normal at one moment; then without warning something like an impenetrable shadow had struck across him.
He seemed to be cased in such impenetrable armour that the world's most deadly blows would glide off from it harmlessly.
The other trees built up around it an impenetrable wall, which isolated it as in a sanctuary of silence and twilight.
It is a cool, shady spot, hidden away in the midst of an impenetrable jungle, and it is so marvellously beautiful that anyone who reaches it forgets all else in the world.
It was indeed a very wood, with thickets of tall standard roses throwing out leafy clumps as big as trees, and enormous rose bushes impenetrable as copses of young oaks.
Fearful work this was, for the place was simply a tangled and practicallyimpenetrable jungle, upon which even the axes of the party made little impression.
They were drawn up in a solid compact body, presenting an unbroken line of spears, projecting beyond the wall of gay shields and polished impenetrable armor.
In the heart of winter he hurried back, and took the Gauls by surprise by crossing the snows that lay thick on the wild waste of the Cebenna, which the Arverni had always considered as their impenetrable barrier throughout the winter.
Though Dan had never been here before, he had heard of the region, and from the first had determined to conceal his party within its deep and almost impenetrable morasses.
You will grow weary of the grace of the palms, of the gemmy colors of the ever-clouded peaks, of the sight of the high woods made impenetrable by lianas and vines and serpents.
Forests till then believed to be impenetrable separated the mission of Javita from that of San Fernando, which was twenty-five leagues distant in a straight line.
On mountain ridges, in the midst of impenetrable forests, man is compelled to fix himself; and cultivate a small spot of land.
First the vanishing into impenetrable mystery of the man upon whom rested her hopes and dreams of one day queening it over France as her ancestress Marie Antoinette had done, and not only over France as a kingdom, but as mistress of the world.
This roof was composed of straw and dry sticks, plastered with clay, which rendered it equally impenetrable to sun or rain.
We tried here in vain to find a passage to cross the rocks--the chain was everywhere like an impenetrable wall.
This way and that ran wavering lines of low rail fences--some recently builded, others rotting beneath and thickly covered with wild roses, blackberry vines and numerous shrubs, forming an almost impenetrable hedge.
It was surprising also to find excellent highways running throughout this semi-wilderness, between almost impenetrable walls of green, which though beautiful, produced a feeling of loneliness under their weird shadows.
I began to waver in my own opinion, and yet the intuition which has served me in cases seemingly as impenetrable as this bade me beware of following the general judgment.
What this image was and why he should seek for it in this impenetrable void, he did not know.
If things would remain shrouded inimpenetrable darkness, and not force themselves in shadowy suggestion upon her excited fancy!
She saw, with that dilation of the pupils common in nervous crises, dim shapes moving hither and thither all about the room, but when she fixed her gaze on any one point, there was nothing but darkness and impenetrable shadows.
So the old Earl's stout heart was stung, and he looked from those deep, impenetrable eyes, mournfully upon Edward's chilling brow.
There was Henri, Sire de Ferrers, whose name is supposed to have arisen from the vast forges that burned around his castle, on the anvils of which were welded the arms impenetrable in every field.
It was supposed that they must have lost their way in some of the thick and almost impenetrable brushes which were in the vicinity of Rose Hill, and had there perished miserably.
When landed, he could nowhere find a space clear enough for pitching a tent; and he had to cut through an almost impenetrable wilderness before he could encamp himself and his people.
He was hid in the impenetrable jungle, which it was useless to enter in the darkness of night.
Here they found a spot where mangrove roots and bushes formed an impenetrable screen, behind which they spent the day, chiefly in sleep, and in absolute security.
Solid and brown, of manifold shapes and sizes, wrapped in silver-paper, they lookedimpenetrable and mysterious.
It has been impenetrable for that time because no one has tried to solve it.
Well, even that would be easier than to hope to solve a mystery which has been impenetrable for five-and-twenty years.
