And when I received their cold answers, and heard the harsh unfeeling reasoning of these men, my purposed avowal died away on my lips.
I turned with loathing from the woman who could utter so unfeeling a speech to a person just saved, on the very edge of death; but I felt languid, and unable to reflect on all that had passed.
Much may come from natural courage," was the unfeeling and stupid reply of one of the assistants.
The insolence of power in one of the bailiffs, and the unfeeling heart, which can jest with misery, in the other, are strongly marked.
The emaciated appearance of the dying figure, the boy's thoughtless inattention, and the rapacious, unfeeling eagerness of the old nurse, are naturally and forcibly delineated.
The boy thinks that one who lives in the woods must be a great hunter, and clamors for bears and wildcats: Jane, in her usual unfeeling way, insists that I put him up to this.
That is very well--for you, Robert; though you need not be so unfeeling about your own son.
It may seem unfeeling in me to indulge in dissertations like the above at so critical a juncture: but they serve to fill the time while I am waiting for marching orders.
I never danced in my life, and it's unfeeling of you to be asking of me when my poor brother's only been in his grave eight days.
It's unfeeling of you, with him only dead one day over a week.
The united efforts of his two unfeeling sisters and of his overpowering friend, assisted by the attractions of Miss Darcy and the amusements of London, might be too much, she feared, for the strength of his attachment.
I must say it is very unfeelingof him to be running away from his poor little boy.
But she was not long in learning that no regard to her feelings was to be expected from this sensual and unfeeling monster.
Their people never asked unfeeling questions, nor repeated harrowing tales; and I did not learn until I was grown that they had been among the large contributors to the fund for the relief of our party.
We passed many dead oxen, also a number of poor cripples that had been abandoned by their unfeeling owners.
How inconsiderate, how indelicate, how irrational, how unfeeling had been her conduct!
She hoped no one could have said to her, "How could you be so unfeeling to your father?
Upon my word," cried Miss Crawford, "you are two of the most disappointing and unfeeling kind friends I ever met with!
It would have been more apt to lead him to regard the king as an unfeeling father.
I DON'T sit up because I may have the pleasure of talking about it; and you're an ungrateful, unfeeling creature to say so.
And when everybody was looking like a bad wax-candle, you could walk about, and make what you call your jokes upon the little buoy that was never sick at the Nore, and such unfeeling trash.
And let every man and every woman, in their private dealings with the subjugated race, avoid all share in embittering, by insult orunfeeling prejudice, the captivity of Israel.
But the stern Presbyterian, with his dogmas and his task-work, the city circle and the college, with their niggard concessions and unfeeling stare, have never tried the experiment.
And although you may have thought me unfeeling and severe, I shall gladly, if possible, indulge the inclinations of my only surviving child.
Don Manuel was indignant at what he termed the selfish and unfeeling conduct of Villabuena, who would thus sacrifice his daughter's happiness to his own pride and ambition.
The youthful nun saw the door close behind him as a condemned person might look upon the portals of Heaven closing against him, if ever Heaven should come to be as cruel and unfeeling as men are.
She is considered in the village as the victim of unfeeling treatment.
Leuthold looked at his unfeelingwife with an expression that, in spite of herself, drove the blood to her cheeks.
This conduct rendered both parties obnoxious to their acquaintance; and the following revolting anecdote of Brown will incontestably prove the unfeelingbrutality of his nature.
What if the man had meant it as a jest--ill-timed and unfeeling though it was?
The time and the circumstances were too solemn for jest--even for him, unfeeling fiend that he was.
Belike the ears of both captain and mate were keenly bent, and their eyes too--unfeeling as the hearts of both were, they must have been stirred in the anticipation of that awful catastrophe, which both surely expected.
This was my hope, and I was cheered at the prospect, though not without doubts that my patron's request might be denied by the unfeeling brutes.
That's the way thoseunfeeling ruffians increase our poor-rates!
Wild and unfeeling as he seemed, there must be a sense of justice in him, reading him by his stern, immobile face.
But Mackenzie had read human eyes and human faces long enough to know a joke when he saw it in them, and he had not seen even the shadow of a jest in the twitching mask of Reid's unfeeling countenance as he leaned on his elbow holding his gun.
She isn't unfeeling in some ways," said Charlotte.
