Calista, I swear to thee, by the spotlessness of thy own soul, by the brilliancy of thy immitigable eyes, by everything pure and chaste in heaven and in thy own heart, that I will never cease from following thee! ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was, indeed, Rima returned to tell me that I that loved her had been more cruel to her than her cruellest enemies; for they had but tortured and destroyed her body with fire, while I had cast this shadow on her soul — this sorrow transcending all sorrows, darker than death, immitigable, eternal. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Her main fault was a brooding, eternal, immitigable suspicion of all men, things, creeds, and parties; this suspicion was a mist before her eyes, a false guide in her path, wherever she looked, wherever she turned. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I will stand for one moment beneath the immitigable tree, alone with the man whose throat is cut, while downstairs the cook shoves in and out the dampers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
‘And going upstairs I could not raise my foot against the immitigable apple tree with its silver leaves held stiff.’ ❋ Unknown (2003)
His wife was the daughter of a laundress, in whose house he had lodged thirty years ago, when new to London but already long-acquainted with hunger; they lived in complete harmony, but Mrs Hinks, who was four years the elder, still spoke the laundress tongue, unmitigated and immitigable. ❋ Unknown (2003)
There were the floating, pale - grey clouds; and the immitigable tree; the implacable tree with its greaved silver bark. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But we are doomed, all of us, by the apple trees, by the immitigable tree which we cannot pass. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge. ❋ Unknown (2002)
What hidden virtue is there in these things, that it is granted them to sow themselves with the wind, and to grapple the earth with this immitigable stubbornness, and to flourish in spite of obstacles, and never to suffer blight beneath any sun or shade, but always to mock their enemies with the same wicked luxuriance? ❋ Various (N/A)
Now, in the stillness, is heard the long, melancholy note of a bird, complaining above of some wrong or sorrow that man, or her own kind, or the immitigable doom of mortal affairs, has inflicted upon her, the complaining, but unresisting sufferer. ❋ Various (N/A)
Instead of professing sanctity and innocence, it only howls immitigable hate and steadfast resolution to devour. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was a dream in which all the material terrors of the past were renewed; but these were all as nothing when compared with a certain deep underlying feeling that possessed my soul -- a sense of loss irretrievable, an expectation of impending doom, a drear and immitigable despair. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)
Tender spirits, like those of Dante, carried this awful mystery as a secret and unexplained anguish; saints wrestled with God and wept over it; but still the awful fact remained, spite of Church and sacrament, that the gospel was in effect, to the majority of the human race, not the glad tidings of salvation, but the sentence of immitigable doom. ❋ Various (N/A)
The soup, of course, on this occasion, was turtle, of which, in accordance with immemorial custom, each guest was allowed two platefuls, in spite of the otherwise immitigable law of table-decorum. ❋ Various (N/A)
Rome, as you must some day, you will always harbor a small canker-worm of immitigable grief, that you did not purchase one stone you saw and thought too high-priced; and will pass thenceforward no curiosity-shop without looking in the windows a moment, in the hope of finding some gem strayed away into parts where no man knows its value. ❋ Various (N/A)
But this was an evanescence, and quickly repented of, as it were, by an immitigable look, pinching and shrivelling the visage into the momentary semblance of a wrinkled walnut. ❋ Unknown (1924)
For he felt confident that a philosophical essay, expressing candid doubt as to the existence of free will, and declaring without hesitation that every man was under the immitigable compulsion of his temperament, his training, and his environment, would appear unspeakably shocking, heretical and blasphemous to the orthodox members of that club. ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)
No language of which I am capable is adequate to portray the agonies of immitigable hunger. ❋ Elliot (1917)
He had grown extremely fond of London, and cursed this immitigable necessity; but at the same time that he cursed, he conformed, and gradually, when he found that his sensitive organ was really grateful for such grim favours, he conferred them with a better grace. ❋ Unknown (1917)
