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Things tolerated in England, because unremovable, were shameful in the new land where they were removable. Many things, upon mature deliberation and tried by Scripture, were found to be sinful. J. Davenport, The Epistle Returned, or the Answer to the Letter of Many Ministers.
For a few moments she looked down in silence, pulling at the fingers of her glove, and once she sighed; then, without looking up, she spoke, in her sweet, low voice. "Gilbert, what are we to each other? Brother and sister?" He started, again not understanding, and fancying that she was setting up the Church's canon between them, which he now knew to be no unremovable impediment.
So long as you are out of Christ, you are under a burden that will every day grow heavier, and may prove to be fixed and unremovable as the mountains. That is a fearful punishment which the poet Dante represents as being inflicted upon those who were guilty of pride.
"You declared just now that marks, meres, and boundaries, were unremovable, Master Potts," said the reeve, with a sneer; "you have altered your opinion." The crestfallen attorney was dumb. "Master Roger Nowell must find some better plea than the imputation of witchcraft to set aside Mistress Nutter's claim," observed Richard.
"You must have suffered much," with an earnest look into that great face with its unremovable marks. "Yes," again comes the answer in a wondrous voice, very quiet, but strangely full of deepest feeling. "And do they all know about it?" "Oh, no! Only a few in Palestine know about it so far." "Well, Master, what's your plan?
I knew the story of how it had been built by a Quaker with good intentions, but without good sense, for the purpose of rescuing people from the awful cellar-holes they burrowed in around there, this within fifty-one years of the death of George Washington, who lived just across the street on the crest of Cherry Hill when he was President, and how in a score of years from the time it was built it had come to earn the official description, "a nuisance which, from its very magnitude, is assumed to be unremovable and irremediable."
It seems almost a terrible thing to tell you, that all here have all the power of knowing at once what hope there is for them as artists; you would, perhaps, like better that there was some unremovable doubt about the chances of the future some possibility that you might be advancing, in unconscious ways, towards unexpected successes some excuse or reason for going about, as students do so often, to this master or the other, asking him if they have genius, and whether they are doing right, and gathering, from his careless or formal replies, vague flashes of encouragement, or fitfulnesses of despair.
'My dear lord, You know the fiery quality of the duke, How unremovable and fixed he is In his own course. But Lear, who has never had any but a subjective acquaintance hitherto with reasons of that kind, does not appear able to understand them from this point of view Lear. Vengeance! plague! death! confusion! Fiery? what quality?
'For although, he saith, 'a forest doth lie open, and not inclosed with hedge, ditch, pale, or stone-wall, which some other inclosures have; yet in the eye and consideration of the law, the same hath as strong an inclosure by those marks, meres, and boundaries, as if there were a brick wall to encircle the same. Marks, learned reeve, are deemed unremovable primo, quia omnes metæ forestæ sunt integræ domino regi and those who take them away are punishable for the trespass at the assizes of the forest.
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