1 To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 2 A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the space of fifteen years.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 3 Night came, death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed themselves to be enveloped therein.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 4 She for a moment contemplated with fright that stupid countenance, impressed with the invincible resolution of a fool that is overcome by fear.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME 5 D'Artagnan has conquered her--her, that invincible power of evil.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY 6 My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
7 I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.
8 They only knew, as surely as they knew there was a just and jealous God in Heaven, that Lee was miraculous and the Army of Virginia invincible.
9 The dragons were coming with invincible strides.
10 The men of Arcadia go down before him; down go the Etruscans, and you, O Teucrians, invincible by Greece.
11 We wage an ill-timed war, fellow-citizens, with a divine race, invincible, unbroken in battle, who brook not even when conquered to drop the sword.
12 For Scylla is not mortal; moreover she is savage, extreme, rude, cruel and invincible.
13 They were no sooner gone, than Monks, who appeared to entertain an invincible repugnance to being left alone, called to a boy who had been hidden somewhere below.
14 And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.
15 No one had lost faith in the invincibility of the troops but everyone, the civilians at least, had lost faith in the General.