I felt an impulse to step forward as a preacher to the world around me, to the thoughtless and the hardhearted.
This expression was repeated indignantly to the Headmistress, and the thoughtless lecturer was requested to call upon the Principal of the college.
The glitter of happiness among those higher placed dazzled thethoughtless and the credulous.
And you see nothing in this but an act of thoughtless generosity?
Never was there a more thoughtless act of prudence, never a more imprudent piece of caution.
In Paris he studied French, French art, French literature, French philosophy, and finally attended the debates in the French Parliament, examining the problems with all the care of a member.
Thoughtless writers have talked Lincoln's ancestry down, and careless biographers have defamed him.
Thoughtless youth discovered that there are only two great things in the universe--God and the soul.
Unable to concentrate, I suppressed a yawn and lapsed into a long, thoughtless pause.
Now I found it easy to resubmerge my awareness into a thoughtless calm.
Thoughtless as a Bohemian, she says everything that comes into her head; she thinks no more about the future than you do of the sous you fling to the poor.
And you, my thoughtless Jack, and little Francis, think of the fate of those who left their land untilled, or heedlessly sowed tares for wheat.
I was the gayest, most thoughtless girl you ever knew until--the thing happened that sent my world spinning upside down.
But surely you don't think him capable of vindictively remembering some thoughtless words, which escaped you sixteen or seventeen years since?
He denies it; he declares that he only went to the farmhouse to express his regret for his own thoughtless conduct, and to offer her the brotherly regard due to the sister of his promised wife.
You say that I am giddy and heartless, thoughtless and reckless.
What though frivolous men and thoughtless women ridicule your devotion, and scoff at your churchgoing and professions!
At one poignant moment this lonely officer took on the whole service, trying to change singlehandedly a thoughtless habit that demeaned both blacks and whites.
Not one of you is, in point of fact, so bad-hearted as you would make yourselves appear by yourthoughtless chattering.
In conclusion, I have only to repeat my regret that I should, by a perhaps thoughtless forgetfulness of the feelings of survivors, have hurt those feelings.
Lockhart modestly speaks of this book in his Life of Scott as one that "none but a very young and thoughtless person would have written.
That one thoughtless act of hers did more for her reputation than years of faithful teaching, than all her beauty, grace, and attractions.
Adieu now to the gay, thoughtless life of the student; the side-glance of a bright eye had been the undoing of him.
What is the justice of damning a meritorious novelist by comparing him with Dickens, and smothering him with thoughtless and good-natured eulogy?
But really, Jacob, you are a very thoughtless young man to waste your money.
We were conversing gayly, and she was uttering some of her peculiar, and often strange sentiments, when I made the thoughtless and innocent remark I have alluded to.
Teach me the flattering paths to shun, In which the thoughtlessmany run; Who for a shade the substance miss, And grasp their ruin in their bliss.
In presenting this subject to the consideration of the youthful, I would admonish them against thoughtless engagements, and hasty marriages.
They will detect and avoid the dangers which beset their pathway, and into which the thoughtless so easily fall.
The thoughtless youth becomes attached to their society, and gradually gives himself up to their influence.
Not until I know why you did such a mad, thoughtless trick," she answered, with that determined set of her chin which I knew so well.
Disdaining reason's weak control, On changeful Britain sped the blow, Who, thoughtless of her own, embraced fictitious woe.
I pray you who read this, could aught be more indiscreet than, in a thoughtless manner, to have summoned these two to dispute?
Even among some, too thoughtless and volatile for avarice or ambition, may be found a species of falsehood more detestable than the levee or exchange can shew.
Amidst such giddy and thoughtless extravagance, it will not seem strange, that I was often the dupe of coarse flattery.
