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The waste and pity--and at the same time the irreparableness of it all--sent a shock, intolerably chill and dreary, through the son's consciousness.

From Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

There is something truly startling in this irreparableness of the past, this irrevocableness of the losses which we have suffered through our follies or our sins.

From Making the Most of Life by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

It was not his words that affected her—but a hundred little personal facts which every time she saw him burnt a little more deeply into her consciousness the irreparableness of his personal ruin—physical and moral.

From Harvest by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The peculiar character of the evil which is being wrought by this age is its utter irreparableness.

From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John