Example Sentences

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At twenty-four life seemed ended, for "Love is a cureless sorrow."

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

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

Memory pictured her pale and drooping, nay gradually sinking under the cureless malady which brought her to her grave at last.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 344 (Supplementary Issue) by Various

With naked feelings, and with aching pride, He bears the unbroken blast on every side; Vampire booksellers drain him to the heart, And scorpion critics cureless venom dart.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.

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