“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.” ❋ Heather Vogel Frederick (2009)
Levity so unfeeling, and a spirit of extravagance so irreclaimable, were hopeless prognostics; yet Cecilia would not desist from her design. ❋ Unknown (2008)
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The youth, however, had a wild and irreclaimable propensity to dissipation, which finally sent him to serve in the corps long maintained in the service of the States of Holland, and called the Scotch Dutch. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The father remained the same — poorer, shabbier, and more dissolute – looking, but the same confirmed and irreclaimable drunkard. ❋ Unknown (2007)
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. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And then how pitiful to think that he — with all his gifts — should be irreclaimable, after all. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This one consolation, however, remains: — He is not an infidel, and unbeliever: had he been an infidel, there would have been no room at all for hope of him; (but priding himself, as he does, in his fertile invention) he would have been utterly abandoned, irreclaimable, and a savage. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Many a less irreclaimable villain is transported; many a more honourable man is at present at the treadmill; and although we are the noblest, greatest, most religious, and most moral people in the world, I would still like to know where, except in the United Kingdom, debts are a matter of joke, and making tradesmen ‘suffer’ a sport that gentlemen own to? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Gripley, who seizes on all the newspapers; and that irreclaimable old bore Jawkins, who would come and dine at the next table to ❋ Unknown (2006)
With these facts before us can we say that these natives are a ferocious, irreclaimable set of savages, and destitute of all the better attributes of humanity? yet are they often so maligned. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It is said, indeed, that the Australian is an irreclaimable, unteachable being; that he is cruel, blood – thirsty, revengeful, and treacherous; and in support of such assertions, references are made to the total failure of all missionary and scholastic efforts hitherto made on his behalf, and to many deeds of violence or aggression committed by him upon the settler. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Until this knowledge is attained, we have no right to brand them as either irreclaimable, or unteachable. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They are, however, as completely irreclaimable as the wildest of nomad tribes, and contact with civilisation, where it exists, only debases them. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Cockatoo Island, the worst and most irreclaimable of their class. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If the girl were irreclaimable could he pretend to like it? ❋ Unknown (2003)
