It had, so to speak, melted in his careless hands.
He thought the fellow's careless remarks covered some curiosity and had tried to leave him in doubt.
He wascareless about money, and, for the most part, left his business to his agent, but he wanted to find out how he stood before he went to Hayes.
Gerald was careless and thought about nothing but his extravagant amusements; her mother's main object was to avoid jars and smooth over awkward situations.
Grace said it was and he gave her a careless look.
Careless to an extraordinary degree about her personal danger, she would have preferred, as far as she was herself concerned, to let Mary live.
The harbours of the New World, which formerly lay incareless security, were put into a state of defence.
Charles and his mother were absolutely careless about religion.
The Nabob riding his elephant over the road was careless whether or not the animal crushed the men and women to death, but not so the elephant, which took great pains to pick his steps among the people so as not to injure them.
And my conclusions have not been arrived at from hasty or careless observation, nor from seeing the ants do something that looked a little like it, and then guessing at the results.
On the following day a careless servant knocked her head against the wood, and it fell down.
Rhoda Polly was swinging herself back and forward on the low parapet which ran round the roof in so careless a fashion, that I begged her to take care that she did not lose her balance.
The wound had healed and they were treating the bone by friction now--reducing and suppling it, but causing Matteo a good deal of incidental pain, which the hospital doctors in theircareless way took very much as a matter of course.
At the same time, desperate and careless though they were, and backed by the majority of the unthinking younger men of the National Guard, they had some qualms as to disturbing Keller Bey in his fastness of the Mairie.
She stood with the telegram in her hand, watching the boy go whistling back to his wheel and riding off with a careless whirl out into the evening.
How careless of me not to have noticed they were gone!
Julia Cloud, only half reassured by this unprecedented carefulness for her health on the part of the usually careless Leslie, went down abstractedly to her professor, and wished he would go home.
If Leviticus in its present form existed in Ezekiel's time, then the work of the Prophet was not only entirely unnecessary, but careless and presumptuous.
Time has never journeyed to this lost land, Crakeberries and heather bloom out of date, The rocks jut, the streams flow singing on either hand, Careless if the season be early or late.
The fund for replacing or repairing, if I may say so, the wear and tear of the slave, is commonly managed by a negligent master or careless overseer.
For it was a strange inconsistency to be ready to forfeit their very lives in war to preserve their children, and yet in their deliberations to be entirely careless of the future.
This gives the appearance of wildness; and Timaeus, who made only careless and perfunctory inquiries, committed himself to a random statement.
You should further consider, Mistress Lucy, that this son of mine is so light of spirit and careless of speech, that some will say he has no constancy of disposition.
Looks like the old fool was mighty carelesswith his money.
Small salaries make slow workers and careless clerks; because it isn't hard to get an underpaid job.
A careful and economical man will use the pad, but a careless and wasteful fellow will reach for the best thing in sight, regardless of the use to which it's to be put.
A slow boy can waste a lot of the time of a five-thousand-dollar man whose bell he's answering; and a careless boy can mislay a letter or drop a paper that will ball up the work of the most careful man in the office.
I was rather sorry when I came downstairs to find that Jill had made rather a careless toilet.
Would any sorrow drive away that light, careless gaiety?
Oh, I do not mind a longer round,' was the careless answer.
A house-painter was standing very near me, painting the outside sashes of the window: he had his back turned to me, and was whistling to himself in the careless way peculiar to his class.
Eric vowed to me that he had placed the letter on the desk, that he never dreamt of opening it, that he always believed Giles kept it locked, that if Giles had been careless and left the key in it he knew nothing about it.
The garrulous fellow was laughing at his own wit, when Levi said in a careless way: "Since we have heard so much about Gill, I would like to know one thing more.
To reach the Grey Nun's Walk, mayhap you speed-- To count the stricken buds of lilies strewn O'ernight upon the soil by careless feet That wandered there so late?
I counted not the countless, careless hours, The days of rapture and the nights of peace.
They were all standing together, as he made this careless reply to the captain; and one of the young men drew him aside, and whispered that David was in arms against his country.
Of a sudden by some mistake, a ramrod was fired from a careless soldier's gun, and it pierced her through her heart.
In that instant he no doubt remembered some of the careless compliments of the night before.
It was at this time that the effects of his careless letters to the English girl came home with a shock.
The "divine spirit of Humor" was upon him during many of those days at sea, and he revelled in it like a careless child.
Dear Mr. Fields: I cannot tell you how vexed I am at this mistake about letters, which must have made you think me careless of your correspondence and ungrateful for your kindness.
Cheered with the grateful answer, he Passed on with step more light and free, And reached with careless heart the place Where lay in ashes Sagar's race.
Who, with a careless smile, will note the pain Caused by thy foolish, self-inflicted wound.
It is true he had lost sight of her, and other intrigues and other pursuits had filled his leisure hours; but when he came to England he had thought of her again, and had made a few careless inquiries after her.
Under an apparently careless frankness and extravagance of speech he was a reticent man; but lightly spoken as the words had been, were they not the sparks and ashes blown from a deep and smothered core of fire?
