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In the Roman Empire the Occidental provinces finally fell into the hands of the barbarians, chiefly because the Græco-Latin civilisation sterilised the family, reducing the population incurably.
Even if he had not been so incurably sick of life, the electric chair seemed now the only alternative to the strait-jacket. As he paused to wipe his forehead he saw the District Attorney glance at his watch. The gesture was significant, and Granice lifted an appealing hand. "I don't expect you to believe me now but can't you put me under arrest, and have the thing looked into?"
Finally they arrived in Lisbon and spent six days which, in a journal privately issued afterwards, they described as of "unique interest." Richard had audiences with ministers, and foretold a crisis at no distant date, "the foundations of government being incurably corrupt.
She stood up in a small wheeled cart drawn by a donkey; the donkey's ears were just set behind her head, and the whole was black against the light. Perspective is really the comic element in everything. It has a pompous Latin name, but it is incurably Gothic and grotesque. One simple proof of this is that it is always left out of all dignified and decorative art.
I have seen tempers ruined for life by the constant irritation, and most old people can probably say that they have seen promising intellects frittered away; minds above the average at the outset of life rendered incurably desultory, shallow, and conceited.
Whatever merits they may have, whatever occasional they may show, they are, as regards construction, incurably clumsy.
My partners generally prefer to sit out after the first round." "I shan't sit out with anyone," declared Olga. "It's such a waste of time. One can do that any day." "So one can," said Max. "I hope you are not hurrying away on my account, Mrs. Musgrave. My business here is not urgent. It will very well wait." He was evidently in an incurably cynical mood, and Olga gave him up in despair.
There will be scarcely a day on which the librarian and the children's librarian will not have to put their heads, and sometimes their hearts, together over puzzling cases cases of fraud, of mischief-making, of ignorant evil-doing, of inherited tendencies, physical, mental, and moral and sometimes it will seem as if the whole human creation were incurably ailing, and the doctrine of total depravity will take on alarming probability.
I realized this morning that I've been fooling myself, all the heart in me trying to be 100 per cent efficient, when I really want to be a Gorgeous Girl fluffy, helpless a blooming little idiot. And I'm glad you have come so I can tell you." "You don't mean that," he corrected. "Being incurably honest I am bound to tell tales on myself. Yes, I do mean it.
The truth must be spoken, he stammered badly, incurably. Whether it was owing to the attempt to overcome his impediment by making his speech musical, or to the cadences of his hammer beating time while his brain was shaping its airy fancies, his thoughts ran naturally in verse. Do not smile at the thought of Vulcan's callused fingers touching the chords of the lyre to delicate music.
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