1
This is an immense building, fortified so carefully that it was practically impregnable.
2
The garrison was forty-five men, including civilians, and Cook considered it was practically impregnable.
3
The château by this time had been made practically impregnable to attack from the outside.
4
Never did the French fight more bravely; but the position, held by determined troops, was practically impregnable.
5
The position was indeed practically impregnable against assault, although exposed to artillery fire, and to distant musketry.
6
These great steel forts are practically impregnable.
7
Gibraltar, for instance, quite fulfilled these conditions, being practically impregnable, and storing supplies that lasted very long.
8
The Allies had settled down at Saloniki and intrenched themselves so strongly that their positions were practically impregnable.
9
Had they done so they would have paid bitterly for their rashness, for the place is practically impregnable.
10
The position was practically impregnable.
11
His retreat was practically impregnable.
12
On the side toward the city the fortress was practically impregnable on account of the precipitous slopes of the cliffs.
13
It was practically impregnable against Indian attack, for it could not be undermined, set on fire, or taken by assault.
14
He occupied only the inner line of its formidable defenses, but so strengthened them as to make the place practically impregnable.
15
He has restored it in such an up-to-date way that it is practically impregnable to anything under big guns or a siege-train.
16
Those facing the St Lawrence, though weak in themselves, were practically impregnable, as the cliffs could not be scaled by any formed body.
