1818. Brit. Rev., XII. May, 286. These rights, it is true, became soon again the sport of bigoted tyranny; but the impulse was given, and the unarrestable progress of opinion had begun.
1855. Prince Albert, Sp. in B’ham, 22 Nov., in Speeches & Addresses (1864), 85. For that is precisely the difference between science and prejudice: that the latter keeps stubbornly to its position, whether disproved or not, whilst the former is an unarrestable movement towards the fountain of truth.
1884. E. Abbott, Flatland, 75. I could feel him slowly and unarrestably slipping from my contact.
