The lad is hopeless, consequently reckless in his conduct,—hardened to the present, and irreclaimable as to the future.
On the contrary, the gentry and the influential farmers in the neighbourhood, looked on George Dalton as an irreclaimable scamp, who had only got what he well deserved.
By advocating painless removal of incurable idiots and lunatics, incorrigible criminals and irreclaimable drunkards from this vale of tears Dr.
It matters not that nine in ten of all our tramps and vagrants are such from choice, and irreclaimabledegenerates into the bargain; so long as one worthy man is out of employment and unable to obtain it our duty is to provide it by law.
They are almost irreclaimable from their savage and independent character.
He was an irreclaimable drunkard, thought only of the necessities of the hour, and slept in the fields when his finances would not admit of payment of a twopenny lodging in St. Giles's.
As for the celebrated Cruikshankian steed, I give him up at once as an utterlyirreclaimable and unmanageable brute.
Paul Lewis, once a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, but an irreclaimable scoundrel, who took eventually to the road, and was sentenced to death for highway robbery, was boldly unconcerned after sentence.
From this time he became an irreclaimable vagabond, put to all sorts of shifts, and adroit in all kinds of swindles, to raise means.
If I could have my way you should think of more profitable things than the (conceded) "wrongness" of a world which is the habitat of a wrongheaded and wronghearted race of irreclaimable savages.
I like many things in this world and a few persons--I like you, for example; but after they are served I have no love to waste upon the irreclaimable mass of brutality that we know as "mankind.
Paul Lewis, once a lieutenant in the royal navy, but an irreclaimable scoundrel, who took eventually to the road, and was sentenced to death for highway robbery, was boldly unconcerned after sentence.
They are, however, as completely irreclaimable as the wildest of nomad tribes, and contact with civilisation, where it exists, only debases them.
Britain, condemning the island to irreclaimable barbarism, as a perpetual and prolific nursery of slaves?
At that time of the year the night closed in as early as seven or eight o'clock, and then in that little house among the solitary hills his disconsolate spirit would sometimes sink beyond solace into irreclaimable depths of depression.
They are irreclaimable Tapparians; not so much fools by contrivance of their own, as by an express, though inscrutable decree of Oro's.
That's what Mrs. Dupont called it when she bracketed his name and mine together on the bulletin-board as 'Irreclaimable whisperers.
But the lesson sits lightly on him, and he remains in heart asirreclaimable as ever.
Though lands were allotted to them, with corn and cattle, they became from the beginningirreclaimable vagabonds.
Orators at fashionable missionary-meetings were wont to speak of them as irreclaimable heathens who bid defiance to civilising influences from impenetrable fastnesses.
The honest softy is more often mistaken for a swindler, and accused of being one, than the out-and-out scamp; and the man that tells the truth too much is set down as an irreclaimable liar.
This was the Great American Desert, the irreclaimable waste of fifty years ago, the dread-spot of the continent.
A traveler in the West must go far indeed before he find a place where he can say, "This is a worthless and irreclaimable waste, the true desert.
Footnote 9: Literally, a basket with holes in it; figuratively, the term applied to irreclaimable spendthrifts.
I am talking to a sensible man, and not to an irreclaimable idiot.
The Scotch law, administered almost entirely by professional men, and on fixed principles, has long been based on the principle of transporting persons only who were deemed irreclaimable in this country.
He was again at Bothwell Bridge with the remaining three, where he was a principal mover of the unhappy commotions in the army that day, owing to his violentirreclaimable principles of retaliation.
