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  • adverb In an impassible manner.

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Examples

  • I had a vested interest; and whatever tended either to its culture or its destruction, I could not view impassibly.

    Villette 2003

  • Meanwhile Ali, with the habitual fatalism of his nation, had resigned himself in advance to whatever might happen and drove straight onward with his eyes impassibly fixed upon the horses.

    Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg

  • Ali had impassibly resumed the driver's seat and, at a nod from his adored master, started the spirited horses down the immense avenue.

    Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg

  • Bashville, faultlessly dressed and impassibly mannered, opened the door.

    Cashel Byron's Profession George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • For some reason, once in view of this mysterious place, she was strangely, inexplicably, impassibly calm.

    The Millionaire Baby Anna Katharine Green 1890

  • And the great Gizune dominated impassibly everything, with its cold and spectral air, in all this white radiance of midnight.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • In truth, nobody attempts to resist her order, impassibly given.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • Miss Aldclyffe stopped, and closed her lips impassibly.

    Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

  • After locking up the bureau again, he walked to the window and gazed out as impassibly as he had done at the beginning of the interview, while Raffles took a small allowance from the flask, screwed it up, and deposited it in his side-pocket, with provoking slowness, making a grimace at his stepson's back.

    Middlemarch 1871

  • After locking up the bureau again, he walked to the window and gazed out as impassibly as he had done at the beginning of the interview, while Raffles took a small allowance from the flask, screwed it up, and deposited it in his side-pocket, with provoking slowness, making a grimace at his stepson's back.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

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