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)

If you hear that he is bold and fearless, that is true; and if you are told that he is shy and wary and inapproachable, that is also true.

From Wilderness Ways by Copeland, Charles

Coleridge was aware that Voltaire, in common with every Frenchman until the present generation, held it as a point of faith that the French drama was inapproachable in excellence.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

So saying, Barbesieur shouldered his gun, whistled to his dogs, and went off to the chase; while Strozzi, his eyes on the dial of the clock, awaited the hour for visiting his inapproachable wife.

From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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

From Secret of the Woods by Long, William Joseph