| 单词 | irreclaimable |
| 例句 | He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In Claud's mind was a bitter thought which has countless times occurred to most of us, that the past is absolutely irreclaimable. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Greene was most undoubtedly an irreclaimable vagabond, as well as a most ungrateful person. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z But parent love suffereth long and is kind, hopes against hope, and waits and is still hopeful when every one else has written the offender down irreclaimable. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z SelfÐabandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Having surrendered its scrap of virtue, it repudiated, like an irreclaimable strumpet, even the maxim of honour amongst thieves. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He caught his breath with something like a sigh of regret for an irreclaimable past. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z He sounds to me," remarked the courteous Montagu, "a confirmed and irreclaimable nincompoop. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Mr Justice Bligh was an inveterate and even an irreclaimable early riser. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z On the contrary," said Vernon, "they possess an engaging spontaneity which flatters me with the suggestion that my own youth has not vanished irreclaimably. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z They are almost irreclaimable from their savage and independent character. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The conditions—the theatre-question generally—in this country are horrific and unspeakable—utter, and so far as I can see irreclaimable, barbarism reigns. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z It is, however, protected in great measure from the western storms by still higher ground, which consists of irreclaimable moors and morasses. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z Also—as the north light seemed to take a hideous delight in proving—her figure was irreclaimably dumpy and plump. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Many of them are hardened to the life, irreclaimable; there are convicts who go off after having served their time, even after they have been put on some land as their own. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Now, I am an irreclaimable talker, as Mrs. Varick can testify; she has hardly done anything but listen since the beginning of our acquaintance. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Many persons, frightened and scandalized at this spectacle, have declared the peasantry as irreclaimably perverse. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Yesterday he was triumphant in all the consciousness of living; to-day he was only a memory, a part of the mysterious, irreclaimable Past! In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z Lithe figures with free and floating draperies sought to recapture the irreclaimable charm that lives for us in the lovely Tanagra figurines, or that flits elusively around the sides of Attic vases. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z They are everything that is dirty and horrible, but they are perfectly happy and quite irreclaimable, many of them being hereditary tramps. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Does a creature of the skies incur an irreparable loss, miss an irreclaimable jewel, suffer an incurable wound, when it loses, or misses, or suffers anything which is but of the earth earthy? A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z It is not his business to reform bad artists, who are probably quite irreclaimable. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z In Peru the term white coquero has the same sense as irreclaimable drunken tramp. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z From first to last I have denounced him as incapable of honest feelings—as an irreclaimable savage. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z "I suppose you thought that I had given you up as irreclaimable." Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z It had not been created by the Supreme God; it was in eternal enmity with Him; it was the source of all pollution; and it was irreclaimable. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z There is such a state, in the end, as hopeless, irreclaimable reprobacy. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It is not the irreclaimably destitute, shiftless, and worthless that it is truly beneficial or truly benevolent to attempt to reach and improve. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses You 'll hear enough of landlords' calamities,—wrecking tenantry, people in barbarism, irreclaimably bad, sunk in crime, black in ingratitude. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) There seemed to be there a society of irreclaimable little vagabonds. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as it sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till in many cases the highest peak of the original island disappears. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Their irregular shape also condemns them for the most part with the many admirable but irreclaimable crooked rugs. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. “That out and out irreclaimable scamp,” murmured the Canon with a very comic twinkle in his eyes. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Keep stripes for the ruffian who savagely maltreats his wife; for the hopeless brute, for the irreclaimable blackguard. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) These investigations show that the pauper is almost irreclaimable. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. I have a rooted obstinacy about me, perfectly irreclaimable. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II He told him that the loose and worthless company which he would there keep, would harden him in vice, and if he was now wicked, he might there become irreclaimable. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales “That out and out irreclaimable scamp!” was the definition of the absent one then. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Unless they were irreclaimable, or had steeped their hands in the blood of others, he ever sought to win them back by his gentleness and liberality. Rulers of India: Akbar He was an irreclaimable drunkard, thought only of the necessities of the hour, and slept in the fields when his finances would not admit of payment of a twopenny lodging in St. Giles’s. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. It kept it where it already was, and where it could not have continued if every slave who escaped North was at once free and irreclaimable. A Letter to the Hon. Samuel Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill. They are the offspring of sober, contented, irreclaimable, unimprovable mediocrity, with a decided tendency to the stupid rather than the sublime. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 He took her, kindly enough, but imperturbably, irreclaimably, for granted, and it wouldn't in the least help that she herself knew him, as quickly, for having been in her country and threshed it out. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 The impulse to revolutionize the system comes from the belief that it is irreclaimably bad. Social Justice Without Socialism As for the celebrated Cruikshankian steed, I give him up The Cruikshankian Steed. at once as an utterly irreclaimable and unmanageable brute. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. I say prosperity rather than competence, for it is probable that no sum could have put order into his affairs or sufficed for his irreclaimable habits of dissipation. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Hugh feared that the type would but sink the most tolerant philosopher in a sense of irreclaimable depression. Beside Still Waters Orators at fashionable missionary-meetings were wont to speak of them as irreclaimable heathens who bid defiance to civilising influences from impenetrable fastnesses. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement There is plenty of government land not taken up and which may never be occupied, that is, inaccessible mountain and irreclaimable desert. Our Italy In every country there are unfortunately some bad men, who are irreclaimable by kindness or severity. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak It would be impossible for me adequately to describe the gratifying surprises that came almost daily in my experience with these supposedly irreclaimable men and women. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. No member of the Soho Friendly Society, except a few irreclaimable drunkards, ever came upon the parish. James Watt But the lesson sits lightly on him, and he remains in heart as irreclaimable as ever. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement She knows the folly of trying to reclaim the irreclaimable. The Diamond Coterie One irreclaimably addicted to drunkenness or some similarly destructive or offensive habit. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Nature had made him an irreclaimable optimist; all that is base and ugly in life passed out of view as he soared above earth in his luminous ether. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. There is a space at the stern, and another in the center of the ship, heavily barred with iron, where those who were considered utterly irreclaimable were huddled together. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent They have done this without the aid of the aboriginal tribes, who have proved irreclaimably addicted to their nomade habits. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Only his fatal bashfulness, his irreclaimably retiring disposition, could have kept him silent in such circumstances. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 Mr. Forster could not bear so barren a property, and determined to attempt the improvement of an estate of five thousand acres till then deemed irreclaimable. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 German South-west Africa is largely desert, much of it an arid and irreclaimable desert. Impressions of South Africa Is no one to help a girl who will soon become irreclaimable? A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls All besides is a rugged mass of red hair, which rough travel has rendered an indescribable and irreclaimable waste. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West I thought that they were savage and irreclaimable.” The Mission; or Scenes in Africa I am afraid there is something irreclaimably insipid in these preux chevaliers. The King's Own I’ve tried several times since, Grant, my lad, but the young savage is apparently irreclaimable. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden I maintain that that would be the correct method to adopt with some of those thieves who are totally irreclaimable by our present system of prison discipline. Six Years in the Prisons of England Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore. Just Patty She carried him home with her; but finding him destitute of natural affection, and in other respects wholly irreclaimable, at the end of two months she left him to the common charity of the village. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 Why not let the Sioux and Chippewas, or any other of the wild, irreclaimable brood, fight their bloodiest, and do their prettiest to help Nature, who seems bent on the extermination of all inferior races? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy As for the young Duke, he fell into the lowest abyss of her opinions, and was looked upon as alike frivolous, heartless, and irreclaimable. The Young Duke They stay where they are and become more narrowly, intrinsically Teutons—irreclaimably Teutons. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life For the experience of centuries had proved that the Steppe was not everywhere and altogether an irreclaimable land, nor the Tartars an utterly untameable race. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers It was after this episode he fell utterly from grace and went forth to the frontier irreclaimably "Downs." An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier He reasoned, he counseled, he remonstrated, and he lashed; but Simon was an incorrigible, irreclaimable devil. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) He was sent back from Carlisle to Dakota as irreclaimable, and after a year or two on his native heath, reappeared among the haunts of civilization as one of Buffalo Bill's warriors. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier You know that good-looking, idle, and, I fear, irreclaimable young fellow, George Hamblin?' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 Why, nearly everybody in Scranton believes him to be utterly irreclaimable. The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight Godless and wholly irreclaimable as Mr. Gibney and Mr. McGuffey might have been and doubtless were, each possessed in bounteous measure the sweetest of human attributes, to-wit: a soft, kind heart and a forgiving spirit. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Napoleon was as essentially, and irreclaimably, a despot, as a warrior; but his successor, whether a Bourbon or a Buonaparte, was likely to be a constitutional sovereign. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte But I am an irreclaimable wanderer, and it is some time since I have been home. The Half-Hearted I'm afraid I let Hathaway escape without being told plainly enough what a hopelessly irreclaimable scoundrel he is. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush You have said," pursued the widow, "that she, who has once erred, is irreclaimable. Jack Sheppard A Romance A certain coarseness and rudeness attached to them which they found it impossible to shake off; and this drawback was exaggerated by their rivals into an indication of irreclaimable barbarity. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The country abounds with swamps more or less dense and irreclaimable, which must always remain a hiding-place for the unfortunate or desperate. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Jan was utterly irreclaimable: Nature had made him plain and straightforward, and so he remained. Verner's Pride Now, there are some capable of domestication, while others are irreclaimable. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times The barbed arrow was in her heart, and the more she struggled, the more irreclaimable it grew. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Evil surroundings weigh more in producing criminals than heredity, and their children are not irreclaimable. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 "I could not blame you if now you thought her utterly irreclaimable." Elsie's Kith and Kin This third angel, "following" up the scriptural testimony of those who went before, and assuming that church and state,—the essential elements of the antichristian system,—continue irreclaimable, addresses his message to individuals. Notes on the Apocalypse As he turned over the well-thumbed pages he made many mental calculations, sometimes smiling and sometimes sighing as his eye fell on an irreclaimable debt. Lancashire Idylls (1898) People think the poor Duffer malignant, boorish, haughty, unkind; he is only a Duffer, an irreclaimable, sad, pitiful creature, quite beyond the reach of philanthropy. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892 She had dated man's decadence from the moment when he began to "poor-fellow" irreclaimable savagery on the score of heredity. At a Winter's Fire They are irreclaimable Tapparians; not so much fools by contrivance of their own, as by an express, though inscrutable decree of Oro's. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II To the most desperate and irreclaimable criminals is allotted the greatest wealth, which is taken from them, little by little, as they show signs of reformation.” The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 As I have mentioned, however, a proportion of the cases are quite irreclaimable. Regeneration Now this man continued to be an irreclaimable character, and in six years after he had lost all the advantages he gained by his services on this occasion. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 That, as some wild beasts can never be tamed, so the disposition of this man was irreclaimable and implacable. The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 He is a living proof of the utter and irreclaimable falsity of the idiotic doggerel: "Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 It leads us away from sterile and irreclaimable tracts of thought and emotion, and so inevitably compels the energies which would otherwise have been wasted, to feel after a more profitable direction. On Compromise Irreclaimable, Sir,—irreclaimable!—said the little gentleman.—Cheaper to breed white men than domesticate a nation of red ones. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 "But if she is irreclaimable, why not leave her?" The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage Now, all is utterly irreclaimable and desert; even the lichen cannot adhere to the stony casts of former trees. The Voyage of the Beagle The father remained the same—poorer, shabbier, and more dissolute-looking, but the same confirmed and irreclaimable drunkard. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people According to this version of the story, Judge Pyncheon, exemplary as we have portrayed him in our narrative, was, in his youth, an apparently irreclaimable scapegrace. House of the Seven Gables One half of the globe is perhaps irreclaimable to the use of man. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author In many persons, happiness is congenital and irreclaimable. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature To the south lay the British Empire in India; to the north were warlike tribes, barbarous, unapproachable, irreclaimable; and far beyond these, lay the other great Power of Asia. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War The stubborn and irreclaimable imp of evil nature peers out sullenly and doggedly, or sparkles on you a pair of small snake-eyes, fruitful of deceit and cunning. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 "It delights me to find in your nature certain desert spots—certain irreclaimable lands, I might say—of ignorance." In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories In the animal creation there are some species that may be tamed, and others whose wildness is irreclaimable. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author It does not indeed romantically seek to reclaim a class of women, whom every sober man acknowledges to be irreclaimable. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian I have known great uneasiness to be experienced, and much loss; but by showing a little moral courage, and discharging those that are irreclaimable, an ascendancy was gained. Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers How can he go on sending forth his life into irreclaimable souls, to keep sin alive in them throughout the ages of eternity? Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. But obstinate vanity recurred to the hope that he was not yet irreclaimable, and under this persuasion she hurried on the preparations for her departure, impatient for the moment of crisis—of triumph. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 But the Seljukian Turks, those irreclaimable barbarians, who had no sympathy with the believers in Christ, laid on them such burdens and vexatious restraints as were altogether intolerable. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time "Art in America is simply an irreclaimable mendicant that stands on the street corners and holds out the catch-penny hand of a beggar." The Pagans All the older women were at work now, and all but the most irreclaimably frivolous of the young ones. The Sisters-In-Law Things like this gangster are infernal spirits, irreclaimable; but we gain nothing by extirpating the individuals; the black stream which carries them must be dammed at its source. The Subterranean Brotherhood Never listen to that fatal lie, that to be a man means of necessity to be always a sinner; that humanity is only another word for irreclaimable desert or irreparable despair. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord Cave-hunting savages at heart, and enemy to every man save their own blood relations, the Corsicans are the nightmare of the Arabs on account of their irreclaimable avarice and brutality. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Beyond the farmhouse the downs ascended higher and higher, treeless, irreclaimable, scooped into long patriarchal solitudes, thrown into wild crests. Esther Waters Christianity has no belief in the existence of 'irreclaimable outcasts,' but proclaims and glories in the possibility of winning any and all to the love which makes godlike. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Now I do not believe, for my part, that any man in this world is so all-round 'sold unto sin' as that the seeking love of God gives him up as irreclaimable. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Yet for all that she made haste, the precious irreclaimable moments sped. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series This irreclaimable wanderer among the perilous by-ways of the earth—christened "Irish blackguard," among respectable members of society, when they spoke of him behind his back—attracted attention, even among the men. Blind Love Another great bitterness in Mrs. Churton's cup resulted from the conduct of her irreclaimable husband. Fan : the story of a young girl's life Your grandfather and myself are foes; bitter, irreclaimable, to the death. Coningsby Ever since the Bruttians, irreclaimable plunderers, had established themselves at Cosenza, disquieting their old Hellenic neighbours, the recesses of this country had been a favourite retreat of political malcontents. Old Calabria To them it was the embodiment of a desert—irreclaimable. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Who or what has worked him into an animosity so irreclaimable, I cannot conjecture, nor will he tell; but something darkly mysterious has part in his wrath and his injustice. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 I always thought you were an irreclaimable mug, but I expected better things of you towards the end. While the Billy Boils The pallid countenance, the lacklustre eye, the hoarse voice clogged with accumulated phlegm, indicated too surely the irreclaimable and hopeless votary of lollypop, the opium-eater of schoolboys. Coningsby The Indian is irreclaimable; disappointment is the very mildest result that awaits the effort to reclaim him. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 The goodness and the nobleness, of which his heart was not destitute, turned, from that time, wholly to evil; and he became irrecoverably ruined and irreclaimably depraved. Fanshawe About twenty years ago, the old fort was turned into an Indian prison, and to it were taken some of the worst and apparently most irreclaimable members of Indian tribes. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Never shall my heart confess that I have outraged Neoptolemos with irreclaimable words. The Extant Odes of Pindar The two digested the parson's words in a small cabin situated upon a pitiful patch of ill-cultivated land; land irreclaimably mortgaged to the hilt, which the 'Bishop' spoke of as "my place." Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch He had a profound belief in their irreclaimable villainy. A Prefect's Uncle The youth, however, had a wild and irreclaimable propensity to dissipation, which finally sent him to serve in the corps long maintained in the service of the States of Holland, and called the Scotch Dutch. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 A man who doubts, after really reading Mr. Taylor's work, is not only a blockhead, but an irreclaimable blockhead. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater By degrees its much tried parent was made to realize that this noisy acquisition to her home was considered unquestionably and irreclaimably, her own. The Doctor's Daughter We were both aliens here, in a nation of kind-hearted and amiable miscreants—of generous, refined, and most self-denying fiends; of men who were highly civilized, yet utterly wrong-headed and irreclaimable in their blood-thirsty cruelty. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder To the south and westward lies an irreclaimable swamp, covering from five to seven thousand acres, filled with dead trees, standing. Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia In the mean time the industrious and irreclaimable hours continued their labours. The Prairie The eldest son, known as Martial, being head of the family, was a poacher, a fisherman at unlawful seasons, but not irreclaimably bad. Mysteries of Paris, V3 What with the incense-sticks and abundant red silk streamers, an atmosphere is created which must be thoroughly uncongenial, even to the most irreclaimable devil. Here, There and Everywhere Levity so unfeeling, and a spirit of extravagance so irreclaimable, were hopeless prognostics; yet Cecilia would not desist from her design. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 Do make me chaplain-in-ordinary to your house of correction for irreclaimable aristocrats, Le Breton, as soon as you once get your coming socialist republic fairly under way.' Philistia But alas! he had the stamp of the irreclaimable blackguard on his face; and that same handsome face was just then disfigured with several bruises in three colours—blue, black, and red. Afoot in England She saw again and again that he was irreclaimably a fool and a prodigy of irresponsibleness. The Old Wives' Tale The last King of Dunk Island—known to the whites as "Jimmy"—was a tall, lanky man, irreclaimably truculent, incapable of recognising the dominance of those who bestowed his Christian name. Confessions of a Beachcomber I thought to sweeten it by opening the place with a shovel, and baling a lot of the stagnant water out; but it was irreclaimable, and the horses could not drink it. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, "Think!" said I; "I should be afraid to say what I think lest your husband should account me a hopeless and irreclaimable unbeliever." Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. We say "her," not because, physically considered, the Y. P. is necesarily of the she sex; more commonly is it an irreclaimable male; but morally and intellectually it is an unmixed female. The Fiend's Delight Indeed, not only do these three virtues not save a man from priggishness—they sometimes even plunge him in irreclaimable depths of superiority. At Large He is irreclaimable; the worst character that ever came under my notice; he shall not set foot on the premises. The Emancipated And then how pitiful to think that he—with all his gifts—should be irreclaimable, after all. Hedda Gabler His only motive could have been a desire to revenge the contumely heaped upon him the night previous, operating upon a heart irreclaimably savage, and at no time fraternally disposed toward the crew. Omoo For no nature is wholly evil and irreclaimable, and perhaps, in spite of his tyranny and cruel tempers, there was a spark of affection in the man's heart for the young sister dependent on him. Herb of Grace "I fear," thought he, "that Joseph is indeed irreclaimable." Joseph II. and His Court They are capable in themselves of making any place charming, though the man must have been enterprising who sat down five-and-twenty years ago to reclaim this park from irreclaimable down. The Trial The successors of the Earls of Ross were turbulent and tenacious of their rights, but they were irreclaimable. History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name Looking to an earlier epoch, when the strata of the Cordillera were depositing, there were islands which even in the latitude of Northern Chile, where now all is irreclaimably desert, supported large coniferous forests. Geological Observations on South America "C'est Cigarette!" said the Chef d'Escadron, with a shrug of his shoulders, as of one who explained, by that sentence, a whole world of irreclaimable eccentricities. Under Two Flags As to punishments, all irreclaimable thieves or murderers are killed and disposed of in the same manner as these sorcerers; whilst on minor thieves a penalty equivalent to the extent of the depredation is levied. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile Not all the open range will ever be farmed, but very much that was long thought to be irreclaimable has gone under irrigation or is being more or less successfully "dryfarmed." The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West When Moses perceived that Korah was irreclaimable, he directed the rest of his warning to those other Levites, the men of Korah's tribe, who, he feared, would join Korah in his rebellion. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 If the girl were irreclaimable could he pretend to like it? The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 The Baptist was even more irreclaimable than the Independent, and the Quaker even more irreclaimable than the Baptist. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 There is a degree of hopeless and irreclaimable vagabondage expressed in this epithet, which may not be generally understood. Urban Sketches They are, however, as completely irreclaimable as the wildest of nomad tribes, and contact with civilisation, where it exists, only debases them. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan An immense belt of rocky mountains and volcanic plains, several hundred miles in width, must ever remain an irreclaimable wilderness, intervening between the abodes of civilization, and affording a last refuge to the Indian. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West The honest softy is more often mistaken for a swindler, and accused of being one, than the out-and-out scamp; and the man that tells the truth too much is set down as an irreclaimable liar. On the Track It seemed so white, so bare, so endless, and so still; irreclaimable, eternal, like Death itself. Vanished Arizona |
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