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

Had he the swiftness of the lion or tiger, his haunts would be inapproachable by man, and he would be a far more terrible assailant than either.

From Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography by Johnson, Clark, M.D.

Was she not something like these pure, distant snowy pinnacles, inapproachable and repellent, with icy-cold breath which petrified all lips that drew too near to them?

From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba

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