Example Sentences

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In at least this age and country it exists as the atrophy of a cureless decline.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

Vampyre booksellers drain him to the heart, And scorpion critics cureless venom dart.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Though my many faults defaced me, Could no other arm be found, Than the one which once embraced me, To inflict a cureless wound?

From Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Three hours of forced inaction stretch before her—three hours for Prue to carry out whatever cureless folly her burning heart and rudderless mind may dictate.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

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