1382. Wyclif, Ezek. xxxii. 12. Alle thes folkis ben vnexpugnable, or mowen not be ouercomen. Ibid. (1388), 2 Macc. xii. 21.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, II. iv. (S.T.S.), I. 140. He began to edifie ane strang toure … quhilk be municioun and straitnes of þe ground apperit Vnexpugnabil.
1608. Chapman, Byron’s Conspir., Plays, 1873, II. 225. Their owne strengths Are not so sure and vnexpugnable But that [etc.].
1653. H. Cogan, Diod. Sic., 70. Arabia is a country unexpugnable to a forraign enemy.
1831. Scott, Ct. Rob., xxiv. A safe and unexpugnable barrier of the empire against the Saracens.
