1 The quarrel with Lanyon was incurable.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON 2 She was sinking under a painful and incurable disease, and wished to recover him before she died.
3 Her early impressions were incurable.
4 Girls are incurable on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming of husbands studded with diamonds.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 5 This incurable blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there converted into evil.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 6 The affair, as it will be reported, will cover us with shame; for in a society such as ours satire inflicts a painful and incurable wound.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 99. The Law. 7 What her last illness was, I am not certain: I conjecture, they died of the same thing, a kind of fever, slow at its commencement, but incurable, and rapidly consuming life towards the close.
8 My father's care and attentions were indefatigable, but he did not know the origin of my sufferings and sought erroneous methods to remedy the incurable ill.
9 Her danger lay, as she knew, in her old incurable dread of discomfort and poverty; in the fear of that mounting tide of dinginess against which her mother had so passionately warned her.
10 People had great sympathy with him, for it was known that he had married an unpresentable woman who was an incurable drunkard.
11 Which ill-practices of theirs, though they quiet things for a time, must in the end exhaust their resources, and give rise in seasons of danger to incurable mischief and disorder.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXX. 12 It was the first time she had received a direct communication from Bellomont since the close of her last visit there, and she was still visited by the dread of having incurred Judy's displeasure.
13 Every thought filled with apprehension for the previous treasure he had concealed in the cavern, the young man started to his feet, totally regardless of the hazard he incurred by such an exposure.
14 After this termination of the scene, Duncan wandered among the lodges, unquestioned and unnoticed, endeavoring to find some trace of her in whose behalf he incurred the risk he ran.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 15 Some few years before, a negro woman, who had incurred Legree's displeasure, was confined there for several weeks.