You guys are what the authorities have called “the incorrigibles”, because in the prisons where you have come from you just couldn’t stop causing trouble.
Conway was puzzled as to the ultimate basis of law and order; there appeared to be neither soldiers nor police, yet surely some provision must be made for the incorrigible?
A peasant caught shooting a rabbit on a lord's estate or a luckless servant girl who purloined a pocket handkerchief was branded as a criminal along with sturdy thieves and incorrigible rascals.
We never shall be rich, and Plumfield may burn up any night, for that incorrigible Tommy Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already.
我们永远不会变得富有,Plumfield 能会在任何一个晚上燃烧起来,因为那个不救的 Tommy Bangs 会在被褥下抽甜蕨类雪茄,尽管他已经三次自焚了。
Amy being gone, Laurie was her only refuge, and much as she enjoyed his society, she rather dreaded him just then, for he was an incorrigible tease, and she feared he would coax the secret from her.
At almost any hour of the day he could be found draped in incorrigible grace against the post-office counter of the shop, and in the evenings he drank at the Swan like the rest of the community.
But he did not throw the broken stick away; as soon as they got home, he set about looking for a bit of tube or something to mend it with. " We'll fix it all right, " said Sivert, the incorrigible.