inapproachable

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Mr. Holmes was a cheerful companion at first, but gradually he grew melancholy, and at times inapproachable.

From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by Musick, John R. (John Roy)

Besides all these contradictions, he is solitary, unknown, inapproachable.

From Secret of the Woods by Long, William Joseph

Old Weston is an out-of-the-way village in the county, and until within a few years was almost inapproachable by carriages in winter; but in what the point of the remark lies, I do not know.

From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

You fulfil your duties here, you care and labor as hundreds would not do in your place; but here you act the mistress, inapproachable, untouched by all the common things of life.

From A Sister's Love A Novel by Heimburg, W.

Is it not strange," said Oswald, after a short pause, "what inapproachable beings some of us children of Adam are?

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich