unsubduable


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unsubduable

(ˌʌnsəbˈdjuːəbəl)
adj
not able to be subdued
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Adj.1.unsubduable - impossible to subdue
indomitable, never-say-die
unconquerable - not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome; "a tribute to his courage...and his unconquerable will"- R.E.Danielson; "faced unconquerable difficulties"
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Besides, now and then such unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from the unknown nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating outlaws of whalers; and the ships themselves often pick up such queer castaway creatures found tossing about the open sea on planks, bits of wreck, oars, whale-boats, canoes, blown-off Japanese junks, and what not; that Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable excitement in the forecastle.
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Mask them all, and the mere turn of the head would have shown an unsubduable nature.
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She carves a garden out of the unbroken prairie and meets the expectations of the unsubduable and intractable land.
Carving an identity and forging the frontier: the self-reliant female hero in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!

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