As a boy I disdained so weak a thing as noticing the coloring on Big Hill-but now, in the long-after years, I realize that its vivid Autumn garment was indestructibly fixed in my memory and has lived-saved for me until I could look back through Time's long glass and understand and love that glorious picture.
"The Long Ago"
Jacob William Wright
Mr. Reuben was a young Jew, aged about thirty-four, with a cold but indestructibly polite manner.
"Tales of the Five Towns"
Arnold Bennett
He did not look young for his years, but he was still young, always young-indestructibly young in spirit and bodily vigor.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009