She said acorns would produce mistletoe, from which an
irremediable poison, the bird- lime, would be extracted and by which they would be captured.
The reader will here find no regions cursed with
irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues; here are no Hottentots without religion, polity, or articulate language, no Chinese perfectly polite, and completely skilled in all sciences: he will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial inquirer, that wherever human nature is to be found there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason, and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced in most countries their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
But obviously tactics, which are so much at the mercy of
irremediable accident, must seem to a modern seaman a poor matter of study.
A wet day was the expression of
irremediable grief at her weakness in the mind of some vague ethical being whom she could not class definitely as the God of her childhood, and could not comprehend as any other.
"Let not thine own passion blind thee in another man's cause; for the errors thou wilt thus commit will be most frequently
irremediable; or if not, only to be remedied at the expense of thy good name and even of thy fortune.
This brave active man, who would have hastened towards any danger or toil to rescue Hetty from an apprehended wrong or misfortune, felt himself powerless to contemplate
irremediable evil and suffering.
The next moment the heavy implement was raised aloft; the next, there was a crash and a squall, and the cat was off on three legs to meet an engagement; Roxy would arrive just as the lamp or a window went to
irremediable smash.
She said to her own
irremediable grief, that it should make her more helpful, instead of driving her back from effort.
The travelers were far from the central point which they would have struck, had their course not been subject to an
irremediable deviation.
She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most
irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.
Hardly four months had passed since the wedding-day at Aldborough, and the penalty for that day was paid already -- paid in unavailing remorse, in hopeless isolation, in
irremediable defeat!
One other little circumstance connected with Miss Dartle I must not omit; for I had reason to remember it thereafter, when all the
irremediable past was rendered plain.