irretrievable

The leaders fallen, no further object for contention remained to the rebels, and the defeat was complete and irretrievable.

But, sir, it is not to lament the irretrievable that I intrude myself upon your leisure.

Yet the administration gave her a warning; they did not allow the irretrievable hours to be stolen from her with a noiseless hand.

He had destroyed his ambitions, he had transformed all his life, by a single unreflecting and irretrievable impulse.

It costs us the most precious, the only irretrievable thing in the universe—time.

But we err both in our mode of accounting for the fact, and in believing the loss we deplore to be irretrievable.

Such a desperate and irretrievable rout was never witnessed.

And she had no wish to add this irretrievable folly to the original blunder.

But no sooner had he taken this irretrievable step than the mask was dropped.

He believed in inspirations, and he would back his knowledge, his inspiration, by an irretrievable move.