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"Your lordship's hitherto invulnerable public integrity " A glance of indignation from Lord Oldborough. "Hitherto invulnerable! your grace will explain."

And we all know how rich the world is in prey of this kind! Littre. The allusion, of course, is to Don Quixote, Part II. chap. xx. His hand is infallible like his glance. The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

The father's habits of speculation had been the pivot on which the whole machinery of her meditated conspiracy had been constructed to turn. No such vantage-ground was discoverable in the doubly sordid character of the son. Noel Vanstone was invulnerable on the very point which had presented itself in his father as open to attack.

Catesby attempted to shake her off, but in vain, and he ground his teeth as he realised the absurdity of his position. A man he could have dealt with, but Mrs. Porter was invulnerable. Sooner than walk down the road with her he preferred the sallies of the parlour. He walked back to his old position by the fireplace, and stood gazing moodily at the floor. Mrs. Truefitt tired of the sport at last.

During his long public career he made many friends who held him in high honour for his sterling qualities, his integrity, and his devotion to his country's cause. He made mistakes and there are few men who are invulnerable to them but he died while striving to do that which he regarded the best for his country and its cause. If dying for one's country is patriotism, then Joubert's death was sweet.

I quite remember thinking at the time that Jackson was invulnerable, and that persons near him shared that quality. An officer, riding hard, overtook us, who proved to be the chief quartermaster of the army. He reported the wagon trains far behind, impeded by a bad road in Luray Valley. "The ammunition wagons?" sternly. "All right, sir.

The Netherlanders may be pardoned if their foes seemed to them supernatural, and almost invulnerable. How else could these enormous successes be accounted for? How else could thousands fall before the Spanish swords, while hardly a single Spanish corpse told of effectual resistance?

I will rid the forest of this fell being." "Would you could make good your words, old man!" cried Fenwolf. "I would give my life for vengeance upon him." "I take the offer," said Tristram; "you shall have vengeance." "But how?" cried the other. "I have proved that he is invulnerable and the prints of his hands are written in black characters upon my throat.

There was mad audacity and valour at that time, an explosion of the inevitable; and all sorts of supernatural stories were current Garibaldi invulnerable, protected better by his red shirt than by the strongest armour, Garibaldi routing opposing armies like an archangel, by merely brandishing his flaming sword!

On this view the invulnerable Balder is neither more nor less than a personification of a mistletoe-bearing oak.