She had that boundless value which youth and a certain insouciance of manner contribute.
On one occasion he took Aileen with him to Fargo, where with a haughty, bored insouciance she surveyed the state of the growing city.
On the contrary, after the vanishing of Rita Sohlberg, with all that she meant in the way of a delicate insouciance which Aileen had never known, his temperament ached, for he must have something like that.
An easy insouciance tempered the habitual military smartness of the man who had known several different services in the fifteen years of his wasted young manhood.
With the insouciance of men bred in club and at mess, the two soldiers soon drifted into an easy chat, meeting on safe grounds.
There had always been in him a reckless dare-devilry, which had slept under the serene, effeminate insouciance of his careless temper and his pampered habits.
There was in him a certain mingling of insouciance and melancholy, each of which alternately predominated; the former his by nature, the latter born of circumstances.
Cecil opened his closed eyes, with the sleepy indifference vanished from them, and a look of genuine and affectionate concern on the serene insouciance of his face.
His insouciance silenced her, and he went off on his tour of inspection to Sister Ann, whom he found in the convalescent ward, very spic and span, very precise and satisfied.
There is a childlike insouciance about the way in which the bird annexes a piece of frizzled bacon, humbly intended for the man.
The young ones play about the eaves or make sallies at passing flies from the window-sills, and yawn with childishinsouciance if mamma suggests, by a sharp tchip, that enemies may lurk behind the curtains.
How abruptly had hisinsouciance changed to devotion, his impertinence to respect!
Francis's question, the good-humoured insouciance of it grated on his mind in rather similar fashion.
But now she began to see the question from his side; she could not go on doing that which meant nothing particular to her, if that insouciance meant something so very particular to him.
In an instant they were themselves once more, two completely self-contained children of sophistication, with superb insouciance making nothing of their public triumph in a rare and difficult performance.
You never stepped over a sword, you never treated it withinsouciance or irreverence.
Fortunately the place was on the ground floor so nobody could take a dive out a high window, but the crowd had all the insouciance of hookers working a Salvation Army convention.
He himself (Chauvelin) had at that fateful moment looked into the factitious Mole's eyes, had seen the mockery in them, the lazy insouciance which was the chief attribute of Sir Percy Blakeney.
They glitter like silver in the sunlight, defying all the efforts of the French artillery; they sail along with a calm insouciance that nearly drives me mad.
They had an almost impudent insouciance with them, those lucky neutral motor cars, as they rushed along the sunny Brabant road to Brussels, joyously confident that there would be no trouble for them if they met the Germans!
Yet even in his insouciance there was something engaging; something almost of distinction.
Bannister looked at his debonair insouciance and laughed.
And the young lady swept to her chair with an impertinent insouciance of manner that some people thought charming.
She hummed a little air, and moved through the room with that haughty insouciance that was considered her style.
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