cureless

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A slow and cureless disease preyed on her delicate frame, and she expired in the second year of Tasso's imprisonment.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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

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

All ills of life will melt away   Like cureless dreams of woe, When with the dawning of the day   Themselves the sad dreams go.

From A Hidden Life and Other Poems by MacDonald, George

The splendour of his glory! form'd to share His purest power, his providential care, And, in consummating his gracious will, At length annihilate all cureless ill!

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