Meanings
- not comparableIrretrievable.
They bid us seize the moments as they pass— / Snatch the retrieveless sunbeam as it flies, / Nor lose one sand of life's revolving glass— […]
1853, John Quincy Adams, Poems of Religion and Society, page 38
Origin
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