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  • Thus ā€œIā€ became a transitive being transition appealed me & I wandered thusly irremedial or femur gaze a lamp above my hair does shine would that its treble named me would that its field a pair ensure apparitional motion --

    Sarah Dowling reads Erin Moure Lemon Hound 2009

  • DOBBS: And do you see this as an irremedial situation, a direction that cannot be avoided now?

    CNN Transcript May 4, 2005 2005

  • It was forbidden even in this manner to criticize irremedial ugliness such as the matter of one's personal form or features, but dress and manners came within the permitted range and the complaints were regularly mailed to the offenders.

    City of Endless Night 1920

  • But that could be soon remedied; she had suffered other, far greater, irremedial, oppressions; her very birth had confronted her, in the puritanical self-righteousness of his world, with an almost insuperable barrier to happiness.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • If he has property and is overtaken by irremedial misfortune, it exempts from execution personal property to the value of five hundred dollars, and vests in the owner in fee-simple the homestead and the dwellings and the buildings used therewith not exceeding in value one thousand dollars, to be selected by him.

    North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

  • That the soul should ultimately reach beatitude rather than absolute, irremedial, degradation through this process is merely

    India's Problem, Krishna or Christ 1881

  • It simply reduces this life into an irremedial evil, with no moral significance or spiritual value.

    India's Problem, Krishna or Christ 1881

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