unheedful

Example Sentences

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Every simple mind has a little well of beauty somewhere in its precincts, which flows and warbles, even when the owner is unheedful.

From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George

O Lord, I have been talking to the people; Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zone, And the recoil of my words' airy ripple My heart unheedful has puffed up and blown.

From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by MacDonald, George

Forgetful, or unheedful, of the fact that the natives of the Isle of Axholme were notoriously violent and lawless, he began to rule them with a rod of iron.

From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington)

They began to feel the pressure of that obligation that had rested on them all along, and of which they had been unconscious or unheedful.

From The Making of a Country Parish by Harlow S.

Such cases, it is true, have been somewhat rare, for made oftentimes on the impulse of the moment, "unheedful vows," as Shakespeare says, "may heedfully be broken."

From Strange Pages from Family Papers by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)