In a general view, it might be termed an irreclaimable desert.
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In the mean time the industrious and irreclaimable hours continued their labours.
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Phil, you may be irreclaimable, but youve proved that this shaft isnt.
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I suppose you thought that I had given you up as irreclaimable.
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They fall into the ranks of those whom the world abandons as irreclaimable.
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It would be hackneyed if I say that death is something very sad and irreclaimable.
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German South-West Africa is largely desert, much of it an arid and irreclaimable desert.
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He caught his breath with something like a sigh of regret for an irreclaimable past.
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She does not teach that human nature is irreclaimable, else wherefore should she be sent?
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Tears flooded my eyes when I realized how fortunate we were spending this irreclaimable time together.
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But the lesson sits lightly on him, and he remains in heart as irreclaimable as ever.
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There was a proneness also in the new occupants to regard the natives as an irreclaimable race, and as inconvenient neighbours.
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A space privileged to men of the irreclaimable act which while it contained all lesser worlds within it contained no access to them.
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With all his savagery, he was not half so savage, so unclean, so irreclaimable, as the tenant of a tenement in an East London slum.
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It is rather singular that the title should have been bestowed upon them exclusively, inasmuch as the natives of all this group are irreclaimable cannibals.
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According to this version of the story, Judge Pyncheon, exemplary as we have portrayed him in our narrative, was, in his youth, an apparently irreclaimable scapegrace.
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The plant-anchored dunes of the Sandhills were long considered an irreclaimable desert. In the 1870s, cattlemen began to discover their potential as rangeland for Longhorn cattle. The fragility of the sandy soil makes the area unsuitable for cultivation of crops. Attempts at farming were made in the region in the late 1870s and again around 1890.
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They practised elaborate rituals including animal sacrifice, and worshipped or feared almost all conceivable inanimate objects, diseases and unusual natural phenomena. The British officers used to describe them as "irreclaimable savages". Around 1850 the Mizos started to encroach the British plantations in the neighbouring Cachar. The raid was most severe in 1871 when a series of attacks resulted in several deaths on both sides, with extensive damage on the plantations.
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By the mid-19th century British Empire had occupied all the surrounding Chittagong and Burma but had little or no interest in the tribes or their hilly land. They were merely mentioned in passing as "irreclaimable savages". The tribals then lived in small and isolated clusters of chiefdoms, each often raising warfare against another. Their religious lives were dominated by paganism and they led animistic world view, with unique concept of afterlife called Pialral.
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The part he took in these affairs gave rise to intense hatred on the part of the rebels. Foxe in his Book of Martyrs summed up this view in two lines: :"This cannibal in three years space three hundred martyrs slew :They were his food, he loved so blood, he sparèd none he knew." His apologists, including defenders of Catholicism in England, claim his actions were merely "official", and that "he had no control" over the fate of the accused "once they were declared to be irreclaimable heretics and handed over to the secular power; but he always strove by gentle suasion first to reconcile them to the Church"; the Catholic Encyclopedia estimates the number of persons executed as heretics in his jurisdiction as about 120, rather than 300. Many of his victims were forced upon him by the king and queen in Council, which at one point addressed a letter to Bonner on the express ground that he was not proceeding with sufficient severity.
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