"Inconvincible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... settled: so that it is not till the evening of the 23rd of May that Noblesse Commission first meets Commons Commission, Clergy acting as Conciliators; and begins the impossible task of convincing it. One other meeting, on the 25th, will suffice: the Commons are inconvincible, the Noblesse and Clergy irrefragably convincing; the Commissions retire; each Order persisting in its first pretensions. (Reported Debates, 6th May to 1st June, 1789 in Histoire Parlementaire, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
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... to her, while she continued to smile pityingly. It was all the more incentive to adventure. If I had assured her that she would be torn limb from limb, like an inconvincible aristocrat flaunting abroad during the early days of the French Revolution, she would have grown enthusiastic. Finally, in desperation because, in my own way, I was fond of Auriol, I put down a masculine and ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
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... misbeliever.1, pyrrhonist; heretic &c (heterodox) 984. V. be incredulous &c adj.; distrust &c (disbelieve) 485; refuse to believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri [Lat.]. Adj. incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible^; hard of belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
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