1 Gulf impassable, and a quiet sort of resentment on either side.
2 Gulf impassable, breach indescribable, such as is perhaps nonexistent south of the Trent.
3 But in the Midlands and the industrial North gulf impassable, across which no communication could take place.
4 By any other route than that below Plancenoit, the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for artillery, and Bulow would not have arrived.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW 5 He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck fast in the mire.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW 6 Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many ways.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 7 It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.
8 The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable.
9 But the way was rugged, broken, and in spots nearly impassable.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 10 The barrier betwixt himself and brother he considered impassable.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassContext Highlight In CHAPTER VIII 11 Those who would, as it were, force a passage to his heart, found an impassable barrier.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 68. A Summer Ball. 12 The mud was impassable along the roads; two mills were carried away, and the weather got worse and worse.
13 A thaw had set in, it was muddy and cold, the ice on the river broke, and the roads became impassable.
14 A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.
15 Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name.