What is "invulnerable"

Usage examples of "invulnerable".

In Ashanti, then in French, he explained that both he and Barfield were invulnerable, that they were potent witch doctors, who could deliver death as easily as they could prevent it.

But here was an evanishment, invulnerable to any weapon or any tactics.

After he had received the consecrated wafer, he was persuaded by one of his comrades, Mathurin Lejeusne, to take it out of his mouth, wrap it in a cloth, and, on returning to his lodging, fry it over a fire, under the delusion that by reducing it to powder he would make himself invulnerable.

It had used that magic in ways that so enraged and disgusted its kin within the fairy mists, the world to which all fairy creatures belonged, that they banded together, seized it when it thought itself invulnerable, and imprisoned it.

The Invulnerables seem to be able to move from point to point in space by some nonphysical means.

Meanwhile, at sea, the combined fleets of Aristagoras and the Athenians proved to be invulnerable and, for a time, invincible.

He stepped close to Deneb and touched her hand, his glove reproducing the feel of her smooth scales, invulnerable to vacuum.

Invulnerable Prince of Myrmidons, He sparkled, by no sage Athene schooled.

The sorceresses were growing in number, and their ability to join their powers made them almost invulnerable.

In dock areas I found the packing houses, seeking to investigate perspectives pure as theorems, the self-mastery of these concrete structures, invulnerable to melancholy.

But even as he envisioned those invulnerable Zhirrzh warships armed with CIRCE weapons, the face of Melinda Cavanagh floated into view.

Behind their virtually invulnerable hulls the mighty warships were slowly being pounded and shaken and battered into useless hulks.

The fact that it had failed to respond to cephalosporin, the antibiotic initially used, did not mean it was invulnerable to other forms of attack.

To distract himself from nervousness, Rihani set his mind to the problem of not just repairing the gates at Catha Heights but making them invulnerable to what Saumer had done today.

Whomever the buskin fits: Melanippe, too, perky priestess of his passions, shouldn't need reminding how the undauntable docility of the lady here featured as Philonoë, her absolute solicitude, her angelic, her invulnerable devotion -- this is nauseating two-thirds of us -- had long since made Bellerophon half-desperate, most particularly for the reason least appreciated by Philonoë herself in her reference to Andromeda, above.