inexpugnability
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During which, his affairs all threatening to break down about him, he himself, behooving to stand firm if the worst was not to realize itself, had to draw largely on what silent courage, or private inexpugnability of mind, was in him, -- a larger instalment of that royal quality (as I compute) than the Fates had ever hitherto demanded of him.
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- The state of being inexpugnable, or unconquerable. He himself, behoving to standi Ann if the worst was not to realise itself, had to draw largely on what silent courage, or private inexpugnability of mind, was in him. Carlyle, Frederick the Great, III. xv. 5.
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- Old General Lehwald, marching in the hollow ground near Habelschwert (hollow of the young Neisse River, twenty miles south of Glatz), with intent to cut that Country free; the Enemy, whom he is in search of, appears in great force, -- posted on the uphill ground ahead, half - frozen difficult stream in front of them, cannon on flank, Pandour multitude in woods; all things betokening inexpugnability on the part of the Enemy. — History of Friedrich II of Prussia
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During which, his affairs all threatening to break down about him, he himself, behooving to stand firm if the worst was not to realize itself, had to draw largely on what silent courage, or private inexpugnability of mind, was in him, -- a larger instalment of that royal quality (as I compute) than the Fates had ever hitherto demanded of him.
— History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 -
Country free; the Enemy, whom he is in search of, appears in great force, -- posted on the uphill ground ahead, half-frozen difficult stream in front of them, cannon on flank, Pandour multitude in woods; all things betokening inexpugnability on the part of the Enemy.
— History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 -
In all Welf Sovereigns, and generally in Teuton Populations, on that side of the Channel or on this, there is the requisite unconscious substratum of taciturn inexpugnability, with depths of potential rage almost unquenchable, to be found when you apply for it.
— History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14
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