unpierceable

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It was a very trying experience, as the river was absolutely unknown to me; the darkness was "unpierceable by power of any star," and the river was treacherous in itself for small boats.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

"Estelle is a courageous woman and discreet with the unpierceable reticence of spontaneity."

From Balloons by Bibesco, Elizabeth

He seems, if I may so say, to have transubstantiated his vast imagination and fancy into subtlety not to be evaded, acuteness to which nothing remains unpierceable, and indefatigable agility of argumentation.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

And is he then unpierceable," quoth she,   "That neither force nor foe he needs regard?

From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward

Sorrow, sin, pride, shame, ambition, failure, obstinacy, ignorance, selfishness, forgetfulness—enough to make ye veil your radiant faces in unpierceable clouds to hide forever the sight of so much crime and misery.

From A Romance of Two Worlds by Corelli, Marie