Naturally he was among the happiest of human creatures; he willed it so, with consent of circumstances; a boisterous consent, as when votes are reckoned for a favourite candidate: excepting on the part of a small band of black dissentients in a corner, a minute opaque body, devilish in their Irreconcilability, who maintain their struggle to provoke discord, with a cry disclosing the one error of his youth, the sole bad step chargeable upon his antecedents.
"One of Our Conquerors, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
For to-day practically marked, in England at any rate, the practical recognition of the two principles which up to now had been found, from their mutual Irreconcilability, the cause of practically all the wars, all the revolutions, all the incessant human quarrels and conflicts, of which history was chiefly composed-their recognition and their adjustment.
"Dawn of All"
Robert Hugh Benson
I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as a relief, notwithstanding its Irreconcilability with my latent desire to keep my eye on the coach-office.
"Great Expectations"
Charles Dickens