III On his right, as he entered, a fire was burning in the grate and it struck him, with the inconsequent insistence of trifles in enormous issues, how chilly for the time of year the day had been and how icily cold his own house.
Madge always declared that she looked at Philippa's shoulders when she wished to see how the wind blew; but then Madge was so daring and inconsequent in her remarks that no one paid much attention to what she said!
He was not in the best of spirits, for the drink was dying out of him; but his garrulous, inconsequent talk amused me mightily.
And one conclusion was invariably arrived at, albeit the avenues of talk by which it was reached were as tortuous and inconsequent as could well be.
His mother went on in her weak, inconsequent way, yet her foolish praise was very sweet to him.
In his honest, inconsequent man-fashion, he wondered why they could not always live together, as they were doing here.
He had now had a minute to think--to recover himself and judge of effects, so that if it was still with excited eyes he spoke he showed a conscious redness and made an inconsequent attempt to smile away the gravity of his words.
Being, as it were, ourselves the angels we had only a limited quarrel in each case with the event; but its inconsequent character, given the forces set in motion, was peculiarly baffling.
Perchance ten times more trivial and inconsequent and mad than Me.
Many pink-faced inconsequent children whose parents nurture them and guard them and eternally misunderstand them are less worldlily lucky.
There were times when it haunted him with a ghostlike horror, and under its influence he would embark in some mad and dare-devil undertaking, utterly inconsequent because utterly without rhyme, reason, or necessity.
Now, after an interval of silence, came the above inconsequent one.
Near the Carmarthenshire border lies the little town of St. Govan's, which, a very few years ago, was much agitated by the pranks of a most inconsequent and noisy ghost.
Perhaps the following illustration will help us to understand these inconsequent manifestations a little better.
Some hint of what the coroner contemplated had already escaped him in the persistent and seemingly inconsequent questions to which he had subjected this witness in reference to these very matters.
Then there were several witnesses who swore to inconsequent things, such as waiters at the Hotel Central, and the doctor who had examined Cortlandt.
Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things.
He knew his cousin better than any in the Frauengasse had learnt to know this gay andinconsequent Frenchman.
She loved inconsequent laughter, and never heard it at Tralee.
Something had drawn her out of her bed in spite of herself--a voice which was not that of old Joel Mazarine, but a new, fresh, vibrant voice which broke into little spells of inconsequent laughter.
George, apparently in the best of spirits, wrote as he always did, in a boyish, inconsequent fashion.
Now and then she could hardly see the buggy and she was glad of his cheery laugh and the somewhatinconsequent remarks he flung back to her when the haze of driving flakes grew thicker.
The casting vote was indisputably the collier's; but our plans were not quite so inconsequent as this conclusion might lead one to infer.
It is not altogether surprising, in such aninconsequent country, to discover that by crossing Alcantara you will arrive--Nowhere!
Fraudulent deductions or inconsequentillationsfrom a false conception of things.
I found an abundance of good things to say about it, but there was one line in one of his poems that was so ridiculously inconsequent and absurd, that I could not refrain from poking fun at it.
Finally the cover attempt at decoration had resulted in a grotesque combination of incompatible colors and inconsequent forms.
He shook his head, and called himself a fool for allowing his mind to wander to inconsequent things.
Moronval finally concluded that a creature so inconsequent must be dazzled, not led.
It was to her inconsequent nature and Bohemian instincts a renewal of the excitement of her old life.
It was one of the privileges of this inconsequent nature never to retain impressions for any length of time.
The folds of the skirt, cut in the fashion of a by-gone day, offered ample accommodation for bustle and steels, and in the absence of these props the gown had a collapsed, inconsequent air.
The Deemster set down his hat and cane, and looked up with a cold, mute stare in answer to his brother's inconsequent questions.
The Armenian Catholics do not enforce so rigorously this domestic slavery, although they also are fettered by a thousand inconvenient and inconsequent observances.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inconsequent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
