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1584.  Melville, in Cal. Sc. Papers (1913), VII. 175. I assured hym … matters wer able to fall out to her unmendable miscontentement.

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1760.  Mrs. F. Sheridan, Sidney Bidulph, lxi. (1796), V. 178. The wheel was unmendable.

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1822.  T. G. Wainewright, Ess. & Crit. (1880), 281. An unmendable slit.

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1855.  [J. R. Leifchild], Cornwall, 76. That vase,… which one puff of wind … would dash down into innumerable and unmendable fragments!

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1877.  M. Arnold, Last Ess., Pref. p. xii. They dream of patching up things unmendable.

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