Irretrievable [adjective]

Besides this good news, the "Mutine" brought word of another misfortune, more irretrievable than the loss of spars.

After all the demolitions of Totila, the ruin was not irretrievable.

We know that the fact is irretrievable, and struggle to be proud of what we cannot help.

The qualities by which court is made to the people, were to render every fault inexpiable, and every error irretrievable.

A false move now, the least slip of a tongue aching to rain curses on Power, and irretrievable mischief would be done.

That was the beginning of hours of chaos, seemingly irretrievable, in that Prussian right wing.

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

It was the almost universal sentiment, that, intoxicated with success, Napoleon was rushing to irretrievable ruin.

There are irretrievable failures; some long, obscure periods, and some triumphant reappearances.

She had probably spent the irretrievable hours at a committee meeting of some society for rescuing working-girls from work.