The evil was so wide-spreading, so violent and immedicable, that no care, no prevention could be judged superfluous, which even added a chance to our escape. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the south, the disease, virulent and immedicable, had nearly annihilated the race of man; storm and inundation, poisonous winds and blights, filled up the measure of suffering. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It keeps up a perpetual fever in my veins; it frets my immedicable wound; it is instinct with poison. ❋ Unknown (2003)
This then is the scope or design of those things which the apostle has said, or will yet say -- to shew that human nature has endured those things which are immedicable, and that it cannot be restored to soundness by any other than by Christ, and by him alone. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)
Even as an arrow through a cloud, darting from the string when Parthian hath poisoned it with bitter gall, Parthian or Cydonian, and sped the immedicable shaft, leaps through the swift shadow whistling and unknown; so sprung and swept to earth the daughter of Night. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)
Make right the immemorial infamies, perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes? ❋ Various (N/A)
He learns to bear what he cannot prevent, knowing that courage and patience make tolerable immedicable ills. ❋ J. L. Spalding (N/A)
_Dydo_, with the Purple flowre for the wounde of _Pius Æneas_: And finding my heart strooken and inwardly pricking, secretly filled and compressiuely stuft; recording and gathering together into it, varyable thoughts and working of Loue, my immedicable wounde grewe greater and greater. ❋ Francesco Colonna (N/A)
He was brought up to believe in God and he has never felt with poignant sympathy enough the abysmal, immedicable woes of human-kind to have his faith disturbed. ❋ Harry Emerson Fosdick (N/A)
The Indians of San Francisco were as immedicable as they were hideous; but the fathers belabored them with sticks and heaven with prayer, and had so far succeeded that if as yet they had sown piety no higher than the knees, they had trained some twelve hundred pairs of hands to useful service. ❋ Unknown (1906)
His art sums up an epoch -- an epoch full of knowledge and the restraints of knowledge, still prone, so often, before the mechanical in life and thought; but throughout all its immedicable scepticism full of strange yearnings and visited by flickering dreams; and even in its darkest years and days still stretching out hands in love of a farther shore. ❋ Gerhart Hauptmann (1904)
Underneath always an undertone of repulsion and incurable ennui ... the dark residuum of immedicable disillusion ... that what she had really wanted was love with its final expression eliminated. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)
Life was and ever had been sordid, commonplace, ignoble, vulgar, immedicable; refinement was a cowardly veneer that was beneath any seeker after Truth, and Truth was all that mattered. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)
At the thought of it all, the triumph of slavery, the treachery of black men, the immedicable grief which arises from wasted labors and balked purposes, and widespreading failures, is it surprising that in that supreme moment hot tears gushed from the eyes of that stricken but lion-hearted man? ❋ Unknown (1901)
Hitherto bibliomania has been regarded as incurable; humanity has looked upon it as the one malady whose tortures neither salve, elixir, plaster, poultice, nor pill, can ever alleviate; it has been pronounced immedicable, immitigable, and irremediable. ❋ Thompson, Slason (1901)
But the wounds were immedicable, as events were soon to prove. ❋ Archibald Henry Grimk�� (1889)
The little child's element of existence becomes, in this manner, not seldom, an element of bitter wrong, and the sting of wounded justice grows in, so to speak, poisoning the soul all through, by its immedicable rancor. ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)
The body suffers a like shock of disorder, and true health vanishes before the secret crowd of infections, twinges, and immedicable combustions, that steal into the flesh, and traverse the bones, and go burning along the nerves. ❋ 1802-1876 (1871)
What have you got to say to me who have to bleed from an immedicable wound till the end of my life? ' ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
