This fact in Byron's case seems due not to mere carelessness, but to incapacity.

" "Did Mr. Stoddard ever go away like this before without giving you notice?" he asked with apparent carelessness.

If the error in the selecting of the office has been wilful, say, through gross carelessness, and is the fault of the priest who changes a notable part of a canonical Hour, he is obligedthe more probable opinion teachesto repeat the full Hour, and this obligation binds under pain of venial sini.e., the obligation to recite the office in the prescribed manner.

" He stood there stiff and straight against the background of light, one hand in affected carelessness caressing the end of a waxed moustache.

There was an elaborate carelessness about her pose which she numbered among her best effects.

XIV THE PURBHOO I do not believe that the Member of Parliament who moved the adjournment of the House to consider the culpable carelessness of the Government of India in allowing the Rajah of Muttighur to fall into the moat of his own castle when he was drunk, could have told you what a Purbhoo is, not though you had spelled it Prabhu, so that he could find it in his Gazetteer.

He was the author of the catastrophe, the captain of the gun, guilty of criminal carelessness, and the cause of the accident, the master of the carronade.

I quickly fired, missing through sheer carelessness.

"Why do you ask?" "There has been a man on horseback on the road behind us," he answered with assumed carelessness, "all the way from Pampeluna.

If it was unpardonable carelessness in the latter to omit the usual practice of previously consulting the leaders of the Opposition on the amount of the grant to be proposed, it was not the less impolitic and unworthy of such men as the Duke and Sir Robert Peel to show their disapproval of the inattention by a curtailment of the grant.

And by the unwarrantable carelessness of some powers, the complicity of others, the latter alternative is achieved.

He has such utter confidence in you, such utter carelessness about himself, such utter faith in God, that he can let you go without a sigh.

His composure of himself is a studied carelessness, with his arms across, and a neglected hanging of his head and cloak; and he is as great an enemy to a hat-band, as fortune.

" In an instant one of the red men whose look, though grim and fearful enough, showed less savageness than his companions, gruffly took Kitty from the Indian who was carrying her with such cruel carelessness.

" "Do just as you please about that," retorted Dave with pretended carelessness.

One day, Mr. Swan beat a slave severely, for alleged carelessness in letting a boat get adrift.

His father lost his life by a chivalrous and quixotic impetuosity; his brother Edward lost his kingdom once by pure carelessness; his brother Clarence fell, no less by lack of wisdom than by lack of honesty; and he himself, at Bosworth, threw away his life by his eagerness to terminate the contest in a personal engagement.

with what ineffable carelessness would he twirl his gold chain!

Maxime lost his spirit, his boyish carelessness.

For him it seemed that the light heart and joyous carelessness of that bright youthful time was gone, never to come again.

What a theme for the moralist!Perhaps the gaoler, whose brutal carelessness terminated the days of Condorcet, extinguished his own humanity in the torrent of that revolution of which Condorcet himself was one of the authors; and perhaps the death of a sovereign, whom Condorcet assisted in bringing to the scaffold, might have been this man's first lesson in cruelty, and have taught him to set little value on the lives of the rest of mankind.

Now that I knew that Edward played with her no more, I could see that there was a shadow upon her face too dark for her years, and that she had lost, to some extent, that exquisite carelessness of poise which makes children so young.

Amongst the blemishes of an innocent kind, which attended Mr. Smith, was his extreme carelessness in the particular of dress; this oddity procured him the name of Captain Ragg.

Perhaps even, she saw little in this fatal carelessness at all out of keeping with his character, as she had lately thought of it.

"Hillas, the draw right by the house here," Smith stopped and looked sharply at the plainsman, then went on with firm carelessness, "This draw ought to strike a low grade that would come out near the river level.