unheedful

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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

"Ah," cried Delia unheedful of his words, "what shall I say to move him?"

From Damon and Delia A Tale by Godwin, William

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)

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 where no foot had trodden.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

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