| 1. | Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | "By my honor, these Gascons are incorrigible Keep up the dance, then, since he will have it so. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | "And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father's conduct," added the incorrigible marquise. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |