Some listened in admiration, for habit had so far mastered dulness, as to have created a species of identity between the state and far more durable things, and they believed that St. Mark had gained a victory, in that decline, which was never exactly intelligible to their apathetic capacities.

Though apathetic, like most of the lower class of his countrymen, he uttered a faint guttural of surprise and peered over the bow.

He had promised himself, out of his new pathetic yearning when she had begun to improve, that never again should she know an ungratified wish, yet now he feared that she would give him no opportunity of granting a request, so apathetic had she grown.

The parson can't see the force of paying it himself, the officers of the church make no move in the matter, the congregation is apathetic on the subject, the beadle keeps quiet, and does his central church walk calmly, never thinking of it.

A light suddenly flashed upon his face would have discovered a keen and alert intelligence transfiguring the apathetic mask of every day.

In the "Gentlemen's Room" there is less of that ghastly, apathetic silence which seems only explainable as an interval between two terrible catastrophes.

Even the most stolid and apathetic soul relaxes a little.

Early in this year a machine for winding, and coppers for baking, together with appropriate treatises on the art, were sent over by the Trustees, but the people were indifferent and apathetic.

The Danubian principalities, though unfavourable to Russia, were not hearty in support of the Porte, and remained apathetic under the occupation of Russia.

When the dinner-bell rang, and she got up to brush her hair, that absent, apathetic look of which I have spoken had left her eyes.

It was a moody place; such a one as only apathetic or healthy natures (I wonder if that is tautology!) can healthfully yield to.

As an instance of their fatalism or apathetic indolence, I can remember a village on the estate I was managing taking fire.

There sat the rest of the apathetic villagers in groups, not lifting a finger, not stirring a step, but calmly looking on, while the devouring element was licking up hut after hut, and destroying their little all.

She moved about like one who had received a stunning blowshe was dull, cold, apathetic.

For a week before the receipt of the note from Clarence, she had been particularly apathetic and indifferent, but it seemed to rouse her into life again.

James Tapster looked rather out of it all; he looked his apathetic, sulky selfa man whom nothing would ever galvanize into real good-fellowship.

Even so, it was a very melancholy little procession which followed the two men carrying the chair on which Bubbles now lay in apathetic silence.

She was curiously apathetic, as people so often are after any kind of shock, but it was clear that there were to be no bad after-effects of the accident.

In the spring of 39 B.C. Herod landed at Ptolemais and with the apathetic aid of the Roman generals in Palestine began to organize the Jews who rallied about him.

His eyes even filled with tears, as one day passing by his house he saw the gates open, and equipages, as in former days, at his door, while genteel and rich people, with cold, apathetic countenances, were entering his house as they had done of yore.

It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat; and the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.

His eyes had an apathetic expression.

The steaming ones were a goodly fraction of the familythe timid, the apathetic, the "conservative."

least"(with a sigh of heavy and apathetic despair)"so

The audience was apathetic.