cureless
Example Sentences
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The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Mrs. Sheldon had a kindly and amiable nature, but she was not one of those sensitive souls who instinctively shrink from a story of bitter shame or profound sorrow as from a cureless wound.
From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
It may be, perchance, A woman's treachery, some luckless passion, In former days endured, hath seared his blood, And dowered him with that cureless bitter humour.
From Among the Millet and Other Poems by Lampman, Archibald
To this cureless grief, Not even the Thunderer's favour brings relief.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Ne'er let a childless mother owe to me A pang so keen, and such a cureless wound.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
