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Sentences starting with careless

Careless of all comment he hastened on, overtook her, and they walked rapidly side by side. [9]

Sentences ending with careless

Readers must be either very good-natured or very careless. [6]

More example sentences with the word careless in them

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. [5]
He knew that when she seemed most inert, most impassive to turbulent occurrences, most careless of consequences, she was but waiting till, in her own mind, her plans were grown; so that she should see her end clearly ere she spoke or moved. [11]
Snatches of song were heard, and voices of men who had had a full meal and had "taken observations"--as looking through the bottom of a glass of liquor was called by people with naval spirit--were mixed in careless carousal. [11]
In due time we spread our blankets in the warm sand between two large boulders and soon feel asleep, careless of the procession of ants that passed in through rents in our clothing and explored our persons. [5]
His loose grammar was the fruit of careless habit, not ignorance. [5]
Well, they shut up their cats for a while, but you know how it is with people; they got careless, and sure enough one night the trap took Mrs. Jones's principal tomcat into camp and finished him up. [5]
It is an unfortunate sentence, for it could mislead a hasty or careless reader for a moment. [5]
It may be true that offences, or diseases, will come, but "woe unto him through whom they come," if we catch him in the voluntary or careless act of bringing them! [3]
Bob had managed to shift the subject from Jethro, not without an effort, though he had done it in that merry, careless manner which was so characteristic of him. [9]
And she managed to keep the good news to herself, though it would seem that the most careless observer might have seen by her springing step and her radiant countenance that some fine piece of good fortune had descended upon her. [5]
Lily was kind to Honora, and gave her their addresses before they grew to be great and insolent and careless whether one patronized them or not. [9]
It all came to him again in this room, so austere in its appointments, yet so gracious, so full of the spirit of humanity without a note of ennui, or the rust of careless deeds. [11]
It was strange to Denzil that the lumber-king, short, thin, careless in his clothes but singularly clean in his person, should have a son so little like himself, and also so little like his mother. [11]
The (at that time) Scientist whom I mentioned a minute ago, and who had not been present at the convention, saw it and marvelled; marvelled and was indignant--indignant with the printer or the telegrapher, for making so careless and so dreadful an error. [5]
As guardians of this wretched unity the various courts sent diplomats to Frankfort, who interrupted their careless mode of life only to sharpen distrust of other courts or suppress some democratic movement. [10]
The world couldn't think that you could be so careless of your opportunities, or that I would pay for the candle without burning it. [11]
I wonder how they can be so careless with property. [5]
To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark except to Pierre and Helene, whose presence he seemed not to notice. [2]
And now had the whole world reached such a boundary line in existence beyond which there was to be no more freedom and careless joy--where a ceaseless struggle for higher things must begin and never end? [10]
The tall man, the very model of a stately burgher, who paid careful heed to his outward appearance, now looked careless of his person. [10]
His air became the one of careless ease habitual to the little gentleman we had met at Windsor, and he drew from his pocket one of his guineas, which he tossed in the man's palm. [9]
I've never kept the mail-stage waiting; I've never left the mailbag unlocked; I've never been late in opening the wicket; I've never been careless, and no one's ever complained of a lost letter. [11]
He didn't suspect that his careless words were being weighed, and so he often delivered sentence of death when it would have been just as handy and all the same to him to pronounce acquittal. [5]
If we allow that Emerson is not a born singer, that he is a careless versifier and rhymer, we must still recognize that there is something in his verse which belongs, indissolubly, sacredly, to his thought. [6]
How easy at that early period to have silenced her by indifference, to have wounded her by a careless epithet, perhaps even to have crushed her as one puts his heel on a weed! [6]
The oracle, the stars, and other signs announced some terrible catastrophe for the coming year with a certainty that he could not evade; and the few careless days that he had been permitted to enjoy at Lochias had ended with unsatisfactory occurrences. [10]
To the careless spectator it seemed a charitable siding with the suffering; a proof that the old man's heart was not so cold as his hands. [11]
It is the sound of the trumpet that the young soul longs for, careless of what breath may fill it. [6]
I should be sorry that you went away, and thought I was unmindful of your goodness, or careless of her--I am not indeed. [12]
He was like some remnant of a great life, loose in a careless world. [11]
Good feeling helps society to make liars of most of us,--not absolute liars, but such careless handlers of truth that its sharp corners get terribly rounded. [6]
Crowned with garlands, singing, and utterly careless, we followed soon after them, and had almost reached the quay, when a noisy troop rushed out of a side street, and fell upon us with naked weapons. [10]
And here, too, shovelling the crushed rock, were East Indians oddly clad in European garb, careless of the cold. [9]
For it was she, and not the confidential gentlemen, who showed Peter Paris: not the careless, pleasure-loving Paris of the restaurants, but of the Cluny and the Carnavalet. [9]
We think we see what these inventors have done: no, we see only the visible vast frontage of their work; behind it is their far vaster work, and it is invisible to the careless glance. [5]
Verus was no schemer; he walked in at the front door with a free and careless step, and scorned to climb the backstairs. [10]
I stood on Sarum's treeless plain, The waste that careless Nature owns; Lone tenants of her bleak domain, Loomed huge and gray the Druid stones. [6]
She had not recovered the careless cheerfulness of earlier years, but, graver than the companions of her own age, she absented herself from the gaieties of the Biamite maidens. [10]
Would you have recognized the cheerful, happy, careless Amasis in that gloomy answer to his Samian friend? [10]
Coming, he was received with careless consideration by the Prince. [11]
The rector had put a number of well-studied careless questions, which failed of their purpose. [6]
She brought into Princess Mary's strenuous, mournful, and gloomy world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and self-satisfied. [2]
Out of the old vain and careless life, which had ended with such fearful horrors, a new life would now proceed of peace and love and pious cares. [10]
And how many of these careless, flitting men of fashion I looked upon could feel the ground firm beneath their feet; or could say with certainty what a change of ministers, or one wild night at White's or Almack's, would bring forth? [9]
At the counter of the hotel I tendered a hurriedly-invented fictitious name, with a miserable attempt at careless ease. [5]
Then a bandage of soiled rags was put on in a cleverly careless way which would allow the hideous ulcer to be seen, and move the compassion of the passer-by. [5]
About the preservation of much that he did--and some of it belonged distinctly to his best and most characteristic work--he was singularly careless, or it may be better to say, singularly indifferent. [4]
A gnawing feeling of homesickness for the free out-of-door life, the wandering from place to place, the careless, untrammelled people to whom she belonged, took possession of her. [10]
He grew careless of his personal appearance. [4]
But it is not strange that in the apathy on this subject the novelists should be careless and inconsiderate as to the characters they produce, either as ideals or examples. [4]
And it is not an event which one is careless about. [5]
It was his nature to be careless, and he had been spoiled into recklessness; he neglected everybody, and only remembered them when it suited his whim or his convenience; but he fiercely resented the inattentions of others toward himself. [8]
I showed up money enough, in a careless way, to corral the shopkeeper's respect, and then I wrote down a list of the things I wanted, and handed it to him to see if he could read it. [5]
It is the moment's careless whim; a pensive pleasure, a dramatic tenderness. [11]
From their first meeting Els had seemed to her incapable of any careless error, and she had merely tried, by her bold, interference, to protect her from the gossip of evil tongues. [10]
Yet how she manages to look like this after six thousand miles of sea and land going is beyond me--and Crozier so rather careless in his ways. [11]
Its hoary traditions make it an object of absorbing interest to even the most careless stranger, and thus far it had interest for me; but no further. [5]
At that instant Madame de St. Gre herself appeared on the gallery, followed by Nick, who came down the steps with a careless self-confidence to greet the master. [9]
He wore a long, double-breasted, claret-colored redingote that fitted his slim figure to perfection, and his gait was the easy gait of a man who goes through the world careless of its pitfalls. [9]
To cherish the lives of others, and to be careless of our own; to give that of great value as though it were of no worth--is it not the Great Lesson? [11]
In moments she lived over again the careless, reckless days when money and good looks had not been lacking, when rich food and wines had been plentiful. [9]
Low, unpretentious, the latticed shutters of its two windows giving it but a scant air of privacy,--indeed, they were scarred by the raps of careless passers-by on the sidewalk. [9]
I drank to know; and I found it lure me into a new careless joy. [11]
Besides, I now knew what would protect me from a relapse into the old careless waste of strength, what could aid me to do my utmost, for the mother's heart had again found the son's, fully and completely. [10]
He longed to kiss his father's hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to everyone! [2]
As to giving Jethro the careless answer of the hill-Rajah, that was another matter. [9]
He won the instant respect of Mr. Cooke's coachman by his manner of taking up the lines, and clinched it when he dropped a careless remark concerning the off wheeler. [9]
A careless expression in one of her letters, that "ye Parson was as lyke to bee in league with ye Divell as anie of em," had got abroad, and given great offence to godly people. [6]
His hands were in his pockets, and a careless, scornful smile was on his face when he glanced down into the street. [9]
He was seated in a little open space on the bank, apparently careless of capture. [9]
But Pierre said, in a careless way: "It is good he have that sleep. [11]
You all think I am a careless dog--but I have my own ideas, and I will speak the words of wisdom. [10]
He never lost, however,--in public at least, or before Lise's family,--the fine careless, jaunty air of the demonstrator, of the free-lance for whom seventy miles an hour has no terrors; the automobile, apparently, like the ship, sets a stamp upon its votaries. [9]
He spent the hours appointed for study like a careless lover, and worked without inclination, without pleasure, without ardor, yet with visible increase of skill. [10]
When I knew him he was a shiftless young spendthrift, boisterous, goodhearted, full of careless generosities, and pretty conspicuously promising to fool his possibilities away early, and come to nothing. [5]
At one time he would excite our admiration by the splendor of his outfit, and perhaps the next week he would seem to take equal pleasure in his slovenly or careless appearance. [6]
He should return; he should not triumph in his self-righteousness, be a living reproach to her always by his careless indifference to everything that had ever been between them. [11]
The creditors who had so long been silent, restrained by a vague but powerful influence exerted on them while he lived by the count's careless good nature, all proceeded to enforce their claims at once. [2]
All that he had done before was the play of careless genius, the exercise of frolicsome fancy, which might amuse and perhaps win an affectionate regard for the author, but could not justify a high respect or secure a permanent place in literature. [4]
Here, take these gold staters, your work will be heavier now; but remember, I swear by Plithras not to spare one of you who is careless or disobedient. [10]
Then I'm very glad that mine has brought all this upon itself, and I shall be as careless as I can, and make myself quite at home to spite it. [12]
Along the shore from Cap Rouge to Cape Diamond small batteries were posted, such as that of Lancy's at Anse du Foulon; but they were careless, for no conjectures might seem so wild as that of bringing an army up where I had climbed. [11]
The Reverend Mr. Fairweather was getting careless about his sermons. [6]
Leave me not fading in these weeds of care, Whose flowers are silvered hair!-- Have I not loved thee long, Though my young lips have often done thee wrong And vexed thy heaven-tuned ear with careless song? [6]
Going over, he examined it, and found it to be a broken bayonet--left there by a careless rebel. [11]
But, instead of entering, he turned to her with careless unconcern, saying: "It is fortunate that I have found you alone. [10]
The wind of energy seemed to blow through his careless hair. [11]
They were careless, easy-going fellows, as a general thing, and the community at large was as much benefited by their riches as they were themselves--possibly more, in some cases. [5]
Again Maurice gazed eagerly around him, but Charles vouchsafed the Lindenplatz and stands only a few careless glances. [10]
Billy had been drinking, his face was flushed, and his whole manner was indolently careless and irresponsible. [11]
Of course he does, and Me-Number-Two is a careless servant, who remembers some old direction, and follows that instead of the one just given. [6]
His rather precise courtesy and consideration, when he was with her, emphasised the distance between "the first fine careless rapture" and this grey quiet. [11]
None of his companions approached him, for each felt that what was passing in his soul at this moment would brook no careless intrusion. [10]
It was a careless word to put in the treaty, and covers too much. [5]
What a wild, careless thing I was! [10]
It is very careless of Mrs. Clemens to trust trunks and things to me. [5]
And yet so careless have editors been of all this that a reporter has been sent to attend the sessions of a philological convention who had not the least linguistic knowledge, having always been employed on marine disasters. [4]
The old, unrestrained, careless friendship could not continue. [11]
Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. [2]
Shelley is represented by this biographer as doing a great many careless things, but to my mind this hiring a furnished house for three months in order to be with a man who has been dead a year, is the carelessest of them all. [5]

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