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Un-get-at-able

adjective

Difficult to reach or attain. Synonyms: un-come-at-able, ungetatable.

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"Un-get-at-able" Quotes from Famous Books

... the reader long ere now, this like-minded couple did not possess a conscience between them—at least, if they did, it must at that time have been a singularly shrunken and mummified one, which they had managed to keep hidden away in some dark and exceedingly un-get-at-able chamber of ...

— The Buffalo Runners - A Tale of the Red River Plains • R.M. Ballantyne

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... leave Ikpe until she had conquered. Another month passed, and she was running out of provisions, including tea. To be without tea was a tremendous deprivation. She thought of the big fragrant package that had been sent out as a gift, and was lying fifty miles away but un-get-at-able, and felt far from saintly as she resorted to the infusion of old leaves. One Sunday evening there was a shout. A canoe had arrived, and in it was a box. With sudden prescience Jean flew for a hammer and chisel and broke it open, and sure enough inside was the tea from Use. Mary marvelled, and with ...

— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone

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