So far then as the great mass of religious intelligence in this country is not "Anglo-Catholic" in its sympathies; and so far as it is chiefly on the "Anglo-Catholic" section that we make any perceptible impression, the conversion of England, for what depends on our own efforts, does not seem to be as imminent a contingency as it would appear to be in the eyes of those foreign critics for whom Lord Halifax is the type of every English Churchman and the English Church co-extensive with the nation-save for a small irreclaimable residue of Liberals and Freemasons.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
German South-west Africa is largely desert, much of it an arid and irreclaimable desert.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
White unbelievers continued to pronounce the "red" Kafir an "irreclaimable savage," fit for nothing but coercion and the lash.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne