Lexicographical Neighbors of Pregnability
Literary usage of Pregnability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... old im- ' pregnability of Reichenberg: " He has no siege-artillery," ' thinks
Lacy; " no means, no time." 'Nevertheless, Saturday, next day after ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1892)
"Having regard, too, to the pregnability of the town, the king also arranged for
the building of a castle on the east side of ..."
3. Notes and Sketches of the Paris Exhibition by George Augustus Sala (1868)
"... out a block of wood, deposited in the cavity, and which quite erroneously was
supposed to be the test of the safe's pregnability or impregnability. ..."
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