836 examples of insensible in sentences

I do not plead in my complaint thy loveliness is marred, Because thy words are cruel, because thy heart is hard; Would God that thou wert insensible as is the ocean wild

Deaf, because insensible to the beauty of Keats's verse; and viperous, because poisonous and malignant.

He had come to see Mrs. Sydney Bamborough, and that lady was not insensible to the fact.

Then the upper part of her body becomes insensible, and the only pain left is that of weakness and breathlessness.

Yes, but what sort of convert is this who is so insensible to substantials, so morbidly sensitive about mere accidentals?

They remind one more of the feats of traditionary goblins; mischievous, noisy, untrustworthy; insensible to ridicule, apparently delighting to make fools of men, and perfectly indifferent to having the tables turned upon themselves.

On this, holding in a half-insensible state to the outward-sloping rock above her, Eveena clung, her veil and head-dress fallen, her face expressing utter bewilderment as well as terror.

"I give you my faith, Geoffry, and surely no girl ever had more reason to know the heart of a man than I. You have risked all to serve me, and I would be ungrateful indeed were I insensible of the sacrifice.

The sisters of Isfendiyár now arrived, and pointed out to him the chamber of Arjásp, to which place he immediately repaired, and roused up the king, who was almost insensible with the fumes of wine.

His horse fell, he was wounded severely, and whilst insensible, the enemy secured and conveyed him in fetters to Bahman, who immediately ordered him to be hanged.

She is by this time in the hands of that insensible boor.

He found him, wafted, spent, and almost insensible, lying beside a little brook that crossed the road.

I imagine that, what with finding me insensible, waking Jean up, and getting me back in my room, you must have been away from yours fully half an hour.

So great, my lords, has been the minister's regard to senatorial abilities, and so strict his gratitude to his friends, that I know of but one member of the other house that has been hazarded in this expedition, and he a hopeless, abandoned patriot, insensible of the capacity or integrity of our ministry, and whom nothing has been able to reconcile to our late measures.

He was of a robust and athletick constitution of body, so hardened by early severities and wholesome fatigue that he was insensible of any sharpness of air, or inclemency of weather.

" "I have understood the metaphor to mean blind to favor, but not insensible to the right.

Fortunately, the chair in which he had been sitting received him, and he lay there insensible as a corpse.

"Is he in a condition, pray, to make a statement of considerable length?" "Far from it, Mr. Marston; he has but a few hours to live," answered the physician, "and is now insensible; but I believe he last night saw Dr. Danvers, and told him whatever was weighing upon his mind.

He was not insensible to pleasures; but he deemed very few of them worth the price which, at least in the present state of society, must be paid for them.

On it four men, tottering and exhausted, were supporting an insensible body in their midst.

George II. was equally insensible to the Muses; and had the annual lyrics been a mosaic of the merest gibberish, they would have satisfied his earlier tastes as thoroughly as the odes of Collins or Gray.

Right feelingly, therefore, might he mourn his royal mistress, and vituperate the insensible minister; and that he did both with some degree of animation, the few who still read his poems will freely admit.

The administration of the elder Pitt, which had been restored six months before, was insensible to the merits of the prodigious bricklayer.

In the final glance she bent upon Victor's beaten and insensible body there was no pity, no regret, no trace of compunction.

Was it to be expected that he should be insensible to the heavy cost?

836 examples of  insensible  in sentences