Elizabeth wove a shield behind which she could mourn, impervious as the diamond of her future patron saint.

Stargate Command sends the Prometheus to destroy the weapon, but it is protected by a shield impervious to its attacks.

What might feel like an impervious shield could have a fatal crack hidden in it, and Ferret did not trust his and Shar's life to some stranger.

These thoughts flashed through his mind, behind his impervious shield, and after only the appropriate slight pause his thought went smoothly on: "I had known of only Worsel of Velantia and Tregonsee of Rigel Four, besides myself.

He assumed his stillness like a shield, impervious and impenetrable; she wondered if it hid a total stranger or someone as familiar to her as his name.

Wylsynn couldn't possibly be as blind to the Church's political realities as he chose to appear, but his serenity was a shield, impervious to the archbishop's prods.

It came to me that an impervious shield might attract unwanted attention of its own, and also that a shield with holes would be handy for me to look out through.

Taken as an entire system, they formed a nearly impervious shield around Haelic, and the one clear invasion path to Avalon.

An invisible force which, if not an impervious shield, would preserve and heal their earth bodies and the spirit within.