cureless

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She sprang to her feet, her bright fancies fallen into cureless ruin.

From Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Raymond then lamented the cureless evil of his situation with Perdita.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Not that he felt them still; but to recollect them as genuine impulses, or at best as irresistible thoughts, was to freeze his self-distrust into a cureless cancer.

From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Till thou can'st rail the seal from off my bond, Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud: Repair thy wit, good youth; or it will fall To cureless ruin.—I stand here for law.

From Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Kean, Charles John

Touch'd not in vain!—The faithful tribute brought To cureless grief the lenitive, she sought; And Lushington, thro' tearful anguish, smil'd On truth's memorial of her darling child.

From Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author by Hayley, William