Before winter I built a chimney, and shingled the sides of my house, which were already
impervious to rain, with imperfect and sappy shingles made of the first slice of the log, whose edges I was obliged to straighten with a plane.
While it packed the socialist meetings with mad enthusiasm, it was
impervious to the wiles of the old- party politicians.
Lady Lundie (born
impervious to all sense of irony) smiled graciously.
I thought not; and therefore I wished with all my heart that it might please heaven to remove him to a better world, or if that might not be, still to take him out of this; for if he were unfit to answer the summons now, after a warning sickness, and with such an angel by his side, it seemed but too certain that he never would be - that, on the contrary, returning health would bring returning lust and villainy, and as he grew more certain of recovery, more accustomed to her generous goodness, his feelings would become more callous, his heart more flinty and
impervious to her persuasive arguments - but God knew best.
Jurgis was destined to find that Elzbieta's armor was absolutely
impervious to Socialism.
Master Micawber was hardly visible in a Guernsey shirt, and the shaggiest suit of slops I ever saw; and the children were done up, like preserved meats, in
impervious cases.
It was cruel, the way Martin had forced her to this, and as she listened, for the next half hour, to the muffled sound of Billy's crying and saw how
impervious to it Martin was, she knew that never again could things be the same between her husband and herself.
She was persuaded that irrepressible passion was the cause of his impatience; and being an ardent admirer of impulsiveness (when it did not lead to the spending of money) she always received him with a genial twinkle of complicity and a play of allusion to which May seemed fortunately
impervious.
To make matters worse, she was quite
impervious to mercenary considerations, and could not be bribed in any way.
Although thus common in these dry and open countries, and likewise on the arid shores of the Pacific, it is nevertheless found inhabiting the damp
impervious forests of West Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
Ever wonder why men suffer from color blindness, hemophilia, and other conditions women seem
impervious to?
They seem to be
impervious to the growing body of scientific evidence that defines Global Warming as a non-problem."
When rain falls on
impervious surfaces such as roads, parking lots and rooftops, it picks up and transports hazardous pollutants into surface waters.
Subsequently, WES contracted with i-TEN Associates, Inc., Portland, Oregon, to create
impervious surface polygons using the existing LiDAR data and orthophotos.
When they find this an impossible task, they embark on a personal mission--that of saving the children who, so far, seem
impervious to alien weapons.
