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inviolable in-VAI-uh-la-buhl adjective safe from violation 1919Ten Days That Shook the WorldCitizens, soldiers, valorous Cossacks of the Don, of the Kuban, of the Transbaikal, of the Amur, of the Yenissei, to all you who have remained faithful to your oath I appeal; to you who have sworn to guard inviolable your oath of Cossack-I call upon you to save Petrograd from anarchy, from famine, from tyranny, and to save Russia from the indelible shame to which a handful of ignorant men, bought by the gold of Wilhelm, are trying to submit her.1922The Waste Land...yet there the nightingale Filled all the desert with inviolable voice…1996IdoruEchoes woke from the tiled floor, from the high beams surviving from an age that must once have seen the advent of Laney's kind or predecessors, their ecology of celebrity and the terrible and inviolable order of that food chain.Labels: John Reed, T. S. Eliot, William Gibson
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