His family has been living off the evaporating proceeds, their past irreclaimable.

Thus to lay down any laws for such irreclaimable vagabonds is worse than useless.

The past is in concrete and irreclaimable and it is only the present that they have to work with.

The irreclaimable had now occurred.

The plant-anchored dunes of the Sandhills were long considered an irreclaimable desert.

It is rather singular that the tide should have been bestowed upon them exclusively, inasmuch as the natives of all this group are irreclaimable cannibals.

The narrator also describes Roderick Usher's appearance as that of an "irreclaimable eater of opium".

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!

"I would congratulate you, my dear--but I fear he's quite incorrigible--utterly irreclaimable.

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.

"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."

Delivering a famous temperance sermon from a pulpit in Litchfield, the Rev. Beecher argued that any drinking would eventually lead to an "irreclaimable" dependence on alcohol.

He added that in his opinion the Kaffirs were irreclaimable savages: 'Merciless barbarians who have driven our seven thousand farmers to utter destitution.'

The Jaguar XKE Series 2 was safer and more reliable, than the Series 1, but some pined for the irreclaimable wilds of the car's youth.

But the Triton of a year ago, a god with all his memories intact and dwelling in a different human body, was as remote and irreclaimable as Old Proteus.

Moreover, I was an irreclaimable sentimentalist, and found a subtle charm in an im- personal and spiritual relation which acquaintance might vulgarize and marriage would certainly dis- pel.

And as Deborah's mind careers through the hall of mirrors that is her past, she gives form to the lament that is inevitably built into memory: that sense of time now irreclaimable.

In 1848 he had his pike and his thousands of pikemen ready for action; today, as then, he is the unconquerable and irreclaimable rebel - the Blanqui of Irish politics.'

The Commissioners said that "If the configuration and architecture of a city has a moral influence upon its residents, the rectification of the irreclaimable obliquity of the... streets is manifestly desirable for more than physical reasons."

Those who don't read as children are probably irreclaimable for the light as adults - they become the orcs who barracked a friend of mine at a bus station with what they saw as the insult "Book-reader!"

Tarzan shook his head and growled; then on and on through the jungle he swung, and the farther he traveled and the more he thought upon his wrongs, the nearer he approached becoming an irreclaimable misogynist.

This turnkey had given him to understand that he was lodged, like some few others in the jail, apart from the mass of prisoners; because he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and irreclaimable, and had never occupied apartments in that mansion before.

"he had no control" over the fate of the accused "once they were declared to be irreclaimable heretics and handed over to the secular power; but he always strove by gentle suasion first to reconcile them to the Church" (Mr Gairdner, qtd in Catholic Encyclopedia).

The Western Engineers raised their eyebrows when they read of the puny shocks by which these men had perished, and they vowed in Los Amigos that when an irreclaimable came their way he should be dealt handsomely by, and have the run of all the big dynamos.

But as they crossed the bridge she recognised all round her the massive towers of the great city: Notre Dame, the grateful spire of La Sainte Chapelle, the sombre outline of St. Gervais, and behind her the Louvre with its great history and irreclaimable grandeur.