Thus a most favourable opportunity of completing the rout already commenced, was irretrievably lost.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
It had been as if he were the youngest among them; but now, in spite of all that he or they could do, he seemed suddenly and irretrievably aged.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
Miss Lawton's butler summoned you this afternoon by my instructions, and with gratifying promptness you came and did just what I expected you would do-betrayed yourself irretrievably in your haste to recover the evidence which now will hang you!
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander