Endowed with a specific, unshakable faith, they are impervious to experience: and as they burst the womb they bring ready-made with them their final and only possible system of philosophy.
The hide of the beast is of remarkable strength and durability, and is impervious to water; indeed, its toughness is, if possible, increased by immersion.
This ooze isimpervious to water, preventing the water underneath from rising to the surface in springs.
The natural answer seemed: an underground river flowing under Georgia, which had been prevented before from rising to the surface by some natural obstruction, namely, earth impervious to water.
As for little Pridgeon, his diminutive inside was so replete with cordials and old Jamaica rum that he was quite impervious to the weather and he sang a large number of country ballads in a very engaging Alto voice.
There are great objections to the use of oil-cloth, rubber or other impervious materials as they prevent the escape of perspiration, urine, fecal matter, etc.
This odd pair remained imperviousto all criticisms, and certainly many of those voiced were frank to the point of painfulness.
Well then, I'll be a stage hand," declared Bobby, whose feelings were imperviousto slights.
In these cases, the different layers of clay or other impervious "partings," are like the steps of a huge stairway, with the soil filling them up to a regular grade.
In this case, the water collected by the porous layers is prevented from finding a ready exit, when it reaches the impervious layers, by the stiff surface-soil.
Thus, the rain which falls on the space represented between B and D, is compelled, by the impervious strata, to flow towards C.
If the subsoil be of clay, rock, or other impervious substances, the downward course of the water is checked, and it remains stagnant, or bursts out upon the surface in the form of springs.
He states the result of his observations thus: "A few inches below the surface I found a stiff blue clay for about ten inches deep, and as impervious to water as so much iron.
If this water fell upon a flat surface of soil, with an impervious subsoil of rock or clay, we should have some sixteen inches of water in the course of the year more than evaporates from the land.
Below this is a stratum of clay, nearly impervious to water.
Truth to tell, though she had hitherto been so impervious to flattery, the words she had just heard were stealing their way very softly and pleasantly to her heart.
They are seldom separated by valleys of any width, but rather by gullies, and are generally covered with an impervious scrub.
Conical granitic hills, in some cases clothed to their very summits with an impervious scrub, are scattered over them.
Advanced ideas had no terrors for them: they knew that their sons were imperviousto their influence.
The latter closed its mouth on the instant; but the horny mandible was impervious to its sharp teeth, and the bird regarded them not.
You can only do it by sending the bullet into his eye, as the rest of his body is impervious even to a musket-ball.
It was evident that Rooney was speaking in an excited voice, but no sound was audible through that impervious mass of metal and glass.
Mr. Fairfax was not impervious to regret, but no regret would bring them to life again.
Religious and benevolent egotism is impervious to the tiny sting of sarcasm.
The outer wall, especially of the upper epidermis, has a tough outer layer or cuticle which renders it impervious to water.
Were not my breast impervious to despair, And did not Clio reign unrivall'd there, I must expire beneath the ungenerous host, And dullness triumph o'er a poet lost.
Nor could those distinguished Persians, who either lived in Baghdád and its environs or visited as pilgrims the holy places, remain impervious to the spell of His charm.
This mass consisted of spearmen, who with levelled points and raised bucklers seemed to present but an impervious hedge of steel to the efforts of an adversary.
In submarine works, the workman, clad in an impervious dress, with his head in a metal helmet, receives air from above by means of forcing pumps and regulators.
At the Captain's call two of the ship's crew came to help us dress in these heavy and impervious clothes, made of india-rubber without seam, and constructed expressly to resist considerable pressure.
Add to this the thickness of the skin itself, and the combination forms a covering that is almost impervious to cold.
The head, neck, and fore quarters are clothed with hide and hair so thick as to be almost, if not entirely, impervious to cold.
Beate was not impervious to such explanations, and opened the portals of the sanctuary to the repulsive young man.