This is called the irremeable wall, for once it is passed there is no hope of return. From Wordnik.com. [The Visions of the Sleeping Bard] Reference
The unusual though expressive term "irremeable," is defined in his dictionary, "admitting no return.". From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings] Reference
The warder overwhelmed, Aeneas makes entrance, and quickly issues from the bank of the irremeable wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
It occurred to me (among the usual discoveries which one makes in reading one's book after it has passed the irremeable press) that I ought to have said "Planchet's" horse, not "D'Artagnan's.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
And would, O father Cronides, and would, ye ageless immortals, that this might be; and that when two hundred generations have sped, one might bring these tidings to me by Acheron, the irremeable stream. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
A prince, as a small river attains the irremeable ocean; and his fortune is then exalted. From Wordnik.com. [Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources] Reference
When thine aking eye shall look forward to the end that is far distant, and when behind thou shalt find no retreat; when thy steps shall faulter, and thou shalt tremble at the depth beneath, which thought itself is not able to fathom; then shall the angel of distribution lift his inexorable hand against thee: from the irremeable way shall thy feet be smitten; thou shalt plunge in the burning flood; and though thou shalt live for ever, thou shalt rise no more. '. From Wordnik.com. [Almoran and Hamet] Reference
All trod the dark, irremeable way. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
Forbid to cross the irremeable flood. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
Of that irremeable burning gulph. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference
Sudden the irremeable way he trod. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
The long, irremeable way, with them. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
Pass'd on, and took th 'irremeable way. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Clear through the irremeable Symplegades. From Wordnik.com. [Atalanta in Calydon] Reference
Passd on, and took th irremeable way. From Wordnik.com. [The Sixth Book of the Aeneis] Reference
Ah, soon again to tread irremeable night!. From Wordnik.com. [Canto I] Reference
Beyond the irremeable outer seas that shine. From Wordnik.com. [Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI] Reference
Seizes the pass, and leaves the irremeable wave. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
'I'o pafs th' irremeable bouAd. From Wordnik.com. [Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining] Reference
The irremeable stream. From Wordnik.com. [0 1535. The Call of the Bugles by Richard Hovey. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
1569), there occurs the phrase, "The countrie of the dead is irremeable, that they cannot return," a fuller parallel to the passage in the soliloquy than anything cited from the classics. From Wordnik.com. [Montaigne and Shakspere] Reference
'irremeable'. From Wordnik.com. [ Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference
Pass'd on, and took th 'irremeable way. ". From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings] Reference
Ah, soon again to tread irremeable night! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
Pass’d on, and took th’ irremeable way. From Wordnik.com. [The AEneid] Reference
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