unheedful

Example Sentences

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Life was indeed a strange thing; and, would a body comprehend it, then must a body sit staring into the fire, thinking very hard, unheedful of all idle chatter.

From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Yet at last she called to mind how little patient of questions was her mistress, and that if she were unheedful she might come to raise an evil storm about her. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

If this should never end— This wandering in oblivious mood Along a rutless road that leads From wood to deeper wood— This crunching with unheedful foot Acorns, I think, and withered leaves ...

From Nirvana Days by Rice, Cale Young

Ah, but I have a charm to trouble you; A spell that shall subdue Your all-escaping heart, unheedful one And unremembering!

From The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows by Peabody, Josephine Preston

They all avoided each other, and though surrounded by a multitude that no one could number, each wandered at random, unheedful of the rest, as if alone on a desert which no foot had trodden.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright