cureless

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But I, alas! no language find, of Sassenach or Gael, Nor note of music in the land, my cureless woe to quail.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

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

To this cureless grief, Not even the Thunderer's favour brings relief.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

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

Not that he felt them still; but to recollect them as genuine impulses, or at best as irresistible thoughts, was to freeze his self-distrust into a cureless cancer.

From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)