It often passes over through insensiblegradations into pumice, which differs only in its vesicular structure.
There is little reason to doubt that whatever be the cause of the climatic changes which bring on glacial conditions, these changes come on byinsensible gradations.
Many persons do not like line work, never master it, and are insensible to its beauty when they see it.
I was insensible of any hazard which attended my visit, and, with the guidance of a servant, who felt as little apprehension as myself, hastened to the spot.
In the midst of my own despair, on perceiving the fulfilment of my apprehensions, and what I regarded as the fatal execution of some project of Ormond, I was not insensibleto the suggestions of prudence.
No natures but human are capable of that depravity which makes insensible to the claims of innocence and helplessness.
They both reached the bottom of the flight at the same time,--the woman insensible from the fright.
The Saint was by no means insensible of the danger to which he exposed himself, nor of the strength of the wily foe whom he challenged so boldly to the combat.
It was impossible for Washington to be absolutely insensible to the bitter invectives and malignant calumnies of which he had long been the object.
For our wretchedness and danger at home made people's minds at that moment insensible to all beside.
Ingres thought exclusively of purely plastic art: beauty of form and harmony of line alone attracted him; he was insensible to the charm of colour.
At length its coils relaxed, its eye gradually lost its fascinating lustre, and with an almost insensible undulation it left the prey to which it was clinging.
There are, believe me, among other nations as well as ours, coldly ferocious beings insensible of all feeling of honour.
She was not insensible to his passion, and thought she had at length found that other half of her being which she sought for.
They seem insensible alike to glory and to reverses.
Modesty and self-esteem mingled in his nature; and, without rendering him insensible to the honors of the post which he had obtained, they sometimes made him ashamed of the solemn trifles to which that very post forced him to devote his life.
Trade raised by insensible degrees the naval power, which gives the English a superiority over the seas, and they now are masters of very near two hundred ships of war.
The bishops succeeded, by insensible degrees, to their temporal authority in the Goth and Vandal government.
The natives of the country, instead of flying into the woods, cultivated byinsensible degrees a friendship with the peaceable Quakers.
The Quaker who owned it was a hale, ruddy-complexioned old man, who had never been afflicted with sickness because he had always been insensible to passions, and a perfect stranger to intemperance.
He carried matters so far, that he formed by insensible degrees a society of young Quakers, who met at his house; so that he was at the head of a sect when a little above twenty.
He saw in a moment that heat is essential to make rubber insensible to both heat and cold: he had indeed discovered vulcanization.
Doubtless when a mind arose, insensible by natural constitution to the superficial aspects of things, and having withal a great stretch of identifying intellect, such a comparison would then be possible.
The view around was sublime, and rendered me for a time insensible to all feelings of personal suffering.
Still, she was not insensible to admiration, and was quite aware of these two young aborigines following in her wake as surely as a gull in that of a vessel.
The Indian warriors of the plains west of the sources of the Mississippi, chew a bitter root, before going into battle, which they suppose imparts courage, and renders theminsensible to pain.
As insensible however, as beautiful, the attentions of her lovers were productive of no favorable effect, for though none were rejected, yet neither was any one distinguished by her partiality.
Compose yourself, madam——" But vainly did he thus address himself to the unhappy Georgiana: she had fallen back insensible upon the sofa.
The two officers accordingly raised the insensible woman and carried her into the adjacent room, where they deposited her on the sofa—that sofa which had proved the death-bed of her paramour!
But in the sunken prostration of her intellect, the old woman was insensible even to her consolation.
He who is insensible of the glory of his profession, who is open only to the profit, is no disciple of mine.
Hence the insensible and almost universal confusion of idea which confounds melancholy with depth, and finds but hollow inanity in the symbol of a laugh.
It was a pretty picture, and Wyvis Brand was not insensible to its beauty.
It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest, or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage: but my eyes wereinsensible to the charms of nature.
And then came the thought that the insensibleboy at her feet, escaping for a little while through sleep's primeval sanctity, was part of the robbed world also.
In fact, Djalma, until now occupied with the contemplation of the scene which reminded him of his country, had remained insensible to the enticements of Rose-Pompon, and had not yet perceived Adrienne.
Then he added, in a suppressed voice: "Do you think, father, that France is insensible to the humiliations she endures?
Hardy, shuddering, and apparentlyinsensible to the other's words.
Regard was necessarily paid to the peculiar situation of our southern fellow-citizens; but they, on the other hand, have not beeninsensible of the delicate situation of our national character on this subject.
It steals, by insensible degrees, one right from the people after another, until it rivets its powers so as to put it beyond the ability of the community to restrict or limit it.
It is impossible for an honest and feeling mind, of any nation or country whatever, to be insensible to the present circumstances of America.
