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Yet even now, in the shadow of an obstacle that loomed as impreg-nable as anything he had ever faced, he hadn't consid-ered turning away.
Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993
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Again, whereas for De - mocritus matter and space were opposites, for Plato they were identified, for the Receptacle, that “hardly real” principle of which we can form only a “spurious conception” (Timaeus 52b) at once provided an oc - cupiable space and yet also was the Mother, impreg - nated by the immaterial essences and providing the very stuff of the Offspring.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968
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"All the more reason then for making this wall impreg -- all fat and thick and solid," he concluded, unable to manage the longer word.
The Man Whom the Trees Loved Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Jane knew it was because it, bad become impreg - nated with moisture, but she did not say so, having no desire to contribute her quota of pats to this air-ball, or to encourage the superficial workings of his mind just then.
The Rosary 1909
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When the Supreme Court first applied the First Amendment's establishment clause to the states in 1947 in Everson v. Board of Education, the justices invoked Jefferson to affirm a "high and impreg-nable" wall ensuring government neutrality that neither promotes nor inhibits religion.
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He was married to Herr Theobald's uses the helpless, yet aroused, soldier to impreg - sister at one time.
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When the Supreme Court first applied the First Amendment's establishment clause to the states in 1947 in Everson v. Board of Education, the justices invoked Jefferson to affirm a "high and impreg-nable" wall ensuring government neutrality that neither promotes nor inhibits religion.
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When the Supreme Court first applied the First Amendment's establishment clause to the states in 1947 in Everson v. Board of Education, the justices invoked Jefferson to affirm a "high and impreg-nable" wall ensuring government neutrality that neither promotes nor inhibits religion.
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We forget that the venom of sin impreg - nates the air that he breathes, and communicates it - self to him by all that he sees, and by all that he hears.
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Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population Seward, William Wenman 1795
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