irrecoverable

Rents are in most parts of Ireland irrecoverable: the misery in many of its Unions equals that of the worst period of the famine.

There is no spot in England so thronged as this with the shadows of a remote, a mysterious, and an irrecoverable past.

Every day ushered in some new calamity; the cause of America seemed hastening to irrecoverable ruin.

The salt becomes indissoluble and the paprika is irrecoverable flotsam.

Even now some important works are still apparently irrecoverable.