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  • A beastly business, winding and twisting over fallen timber, hugging the cañon wall, near a thousand feet down -- 'Impassable' the trail is marked, on the government military maps.

    The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote 1892

  • In the book, a girl's baby brother is kidnapped by crows and taken to the "Impassable Wilderness."

    A Rockin' Forest Fairy Tale Nancy Keates 2011

  • Cutthroat, steelhead, sockeye, chinook, and bull trout depend on the Middle Fork Salmon River, a National Wild and Scenic River flowing through Impassable Canyon.

    Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA) 2008

  • Impassable rivers lay athwart their homeward route, and hemmed them in.

    Anabasis 2007

  • Impassable roads and rail delays created real problems for commuters, and officials said people should avoid the downtown area.

    CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2006 2006

  • Beyond the Impassable Desert lies many other surreal lands to be explored such as the Country of the Gargoyles, Boboland, The Kingdom of Ix, and The Dominions of the Nome King.

    MMOG Nation » Franchise Fundamentals 2004

  • A bright yellow sign in the headlights read: Impassable in wet weather.

    Kiss the Girls Patterson, James, 1947- 1995

  • Impassable alike to foot, hoof and boat, the great swamp has ever been a stagnant backwater of history, its miry expanse fabled as a death-snare for armies and a last refuge of hunted men.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Impassable alike to foot, hoof and boat, the great swamp has ever been a stagnant backwater of history, its miry expanse fabled as a death-snare for armies and a last refuge of hunted men.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Are these mountain peaks of the Unknowable, the Impassable, which encompass the skyline of our humanity, these heights so mysterious and so unscalable, not rather bulwarks between man's pride and the abyss?

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

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