Vicious irreclaimable boys. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an irreclaimable swamp; irreclaimable offenders. From Dictionary.com.
If the girl were irreclaimable could he pretend to like it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
She knows the folly of trying to reclaim the irreclaimable. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Cockatoo Island, the worst and most irreclaimable of their class. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Why, nearly everybody in Scranton believes him to be utterly irreclaimable. From Wordnik.com. [The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight] Reference
They fall into the ranks of those whom the world abandons as irreclaimable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Now, there are some capable of domestication, while others are irreclaimable. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
"Go down a pint or two, you mean," said WILFRID LAWSON, who is irreclaimable. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference
Thus to lay down any laws for such irreclaimable vagabonds is worse than useless. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of the Moth, and other essays] Reference
The first (/| \) is the king's mark put on those who are totally irreclaimable and insubordinate. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
And then how pitiful to think that he — with all his gifts — should be irreclaimable, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Hedda Gabler] Reference
Now, all is utterly irreclaimable and desert; even the lichen cannot adhere to the stony casts of former trees. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
Gripley, who seizes on all the newspapers; and that irreclaimable old bore Jawkins, who would come and dine at the next table to. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
The father remained the same — poorer, shabbier, and more dissolute – looking, but the same confirmed and irreclaimable drunkard. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
Levity so unfeeling, and a spirit of extravagance so irreclaimable, were hopeless prognostics; yet Cecilia would not desist from her design. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
They are, however, as completely irreclaimable as the wildest of nomad tribes, and contact with civilisation, where it exists, only debases them. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
As he reached to pick them up he had the strange sensation he was looking at two lives, lived long, long ago, now fallen into desuetude, irreclaimable. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Pier]
No, if luck's with us we'll bring him his sister, either intact or a wife irreclaimable, and they shall fight it out between them, he, she and the lover!. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The Gospel knows nothing of irreclaimable outcasts. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
Yet for all that she made haste, the precious irreclaimable moments sped. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference
Every one gives up Topsy as utterly irreclaimable -- all except the gentle Eva. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852] Reference
In the mean time the industrious and irreclaimable hours continued their labours. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie] Reference
The second is for the clowns, the irreclaimable who have the fun, but not the joys. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Tourism revenues up 28% in first half - report] Reference
In every country there are unfortunately some bad men, who are irreclaimable by kindness or severity. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak] Reference
No member of the Soho Friendly Society, except a few irreclaimable drunkards, ever came upon the parish. From Wordnik.com. [James Watt] Reference
Until this knowledge is attained, we have no right to brand them as either irreclaimable, or unteachable. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
He is irreclaimable; the worst character that ever came under my notice; he shall not set foot on the premises. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
Though lands were allotted to them, with corn and cattle, they became from the beginning irreclaimable vagabonds. From Wordnik.com. [The Gypsies] Reference
Sandy disappeared, irreclaimable, or living alone, hating irrevocably the author of his misery; why should not I. From Wordnik.com. [Two Men of Sandy Bar; a drama] Reference
The Baptist was even more irreclaimable than the Independent, and the Quaker even more irreclaimable than the Baptist. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
There is a degree of hopeless and irreclaimable vagabondage expressed in this epithet, which may not be generally understood. From Wordnik.com. [Urban Sketches] Reference
Nephew, even the cold, contented, irreclaimable perversity of the cutthroat Moor, all dwell in our recollections: but what, next to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference
To the south and westward lies an irreclaimable swamp, covering from five to seven thousand acres, filled with dead trees, standing. From Wordnik.com. [Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia] Reference
There is plenty of government land not taken up and which may never be occupied, that is, inaccessible mountain and irreclaimable desert. From Wordnik.com. [Our Italy] Reference
As for the young Duke, he fell into the lowest abyss of her opinions, and was looked upon as alike frivolous, heartless, and irreclaimable. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Duke] Reference
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