un-get-at-able

Updated: May 19, 2025

Even the windows had long since given up the fight to maintain a decent amount of light, and as for the grated opening protected by iron shutters which would have had barely room to swing themselves clear of the building next door, no Patrick past or present had ever dared loosen their bolts for a peep even an inch wide into the canyon below, so gruesome was the collection of old shoes, tin cans, broken bottles and battered hats which successive generations had hurried into the narrow un-get-at-able space that lay between the two structures.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero

Michel is one of the most out-of-the-way, un-get-at-able places I found in all Europe; but, oh, how it rewards one who arrives! Mont St. Michel is too well known to need a description. But to go from Dinard requires, first of all, that one must go by boat over to St.

Lilian Bell - As Seen By Me