The twins considered that success in the election would reinstate them, and that defeat would work them
irreparable damage.
Again, there is a third case,-- when some one is about to do an
irreparable deed through ignorance, and makes the discovery before it is done.
Otherwise the angles might inflict on the unwary Feeler
irreparable injury.
But, my dear captain, an accident may happen in a moment, and it would require but one unlucky blow to do the balloon an
irreparable injury, so that the trip would be totally defeated; therefore we must act with the greatest caution."
"You know, Count, it is much more honorable to admit one's mistake than to let matters become
irreparable. There was no insult on either side.
"This letter, sir, I received within a fortnight after the
irreparable loss I have mentioned; and within a fortnight afterwards, Mr Allworthy--the blessed Mr Allworthy, came to pay me a visit, when he placed me in the house where you now see me, gave me a large sum of money to furnish it, and settled an annuity of L50 a-year upon me, which I have constantly received ever since.
estrangement; but if there has been nothing
irreparable." .
He shuddered as he thought of the
irreparable wrong that his love would have done the innocent child but for the chance that had snatched her from him before it was too late.
I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most
irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.
Whatever else he did, he could not make an
irreparable breach between himself and this long-loved wife.
At last he went to bed, out of spirits and heavy at heart, as much because he missed Sancho as because of the
irreparable disaster to his stockings, the stitches of which he would have even taken up with silk of another colour, which is one of the greatest signs of poverty a gentleman can show in the course of his never-failing embarrassments.
"Sire, I believe it to be most urgent, but I hope, by the speed I have used, that it is not
irreparable."