We are made to feel that the only thing the matter with him is his creed"all those stifling notions of sin, penance, absolution, direction, as they were conventionalized in Catholic practice and chattered about by stupid and mindless people.

His jaws snapped at my face, but I had such purchase as to prevent their touching me, and mindless of the claws tearing at my flesh, I forced the animal's head back until the neck cracked, and the lips gave vent to a wild scream of agony.

But you have not known what force resides in the mindless things until you have known a desert wind.

It caught the rays of sunset in its flowery net and let then softly in upon the sick man's bed; gathered the glancing beams of the moon at midnight, and often wakened the sleeper to look, with his mindless eyes, upon their pretty silver fragments strewn upon the floor.

Still o'er the fountain's watery gleam he stood, Mindless of sleep, and negligent of food; Still viewed his face, and languished as he viewed.

~Ring from the Rim of the Glass, Boys.~ Ring from the rim of the glass, boys, Ripples of tinkling tones; Drink to the heyday of youth, boys, Mindless of after-moans.

Drink to the heyday of youth, boys, Mindless of after-moans.

Only in the etheric world (and below it) could there be living mindless ones.

It enveloped her as, half running, mindless of her footing, slipping as she went, she hurried toward the other side of Galeria.

Where late Amintor made a nymph a bride, 30 Joyful I flew by young Favonia's side, Who, mindless of the feasting, went to sip The balmy pleasure of the shepherd's lip; I saw the wanton where I stoop'd to sup, And half resolved to drown me in the cup; Till, brush'd by careless hands, she soar'd above: Cease, beauty, cease to vex a tender love!

Mute, mindless, or demented nations are dangerous and doomed nations.

Far different the lot of the factory worker with her monotonous and mindless repetition of lifeless movements at the bidding of the machine she tends.

=The Young Sportsman= Harry had a dog and gun; And he loved to set the one, Barking, out upon the run, While he held the other, Often charged so heavily, 'Twas a dangerous thing to be With so young a wight as he Mindless of his mother.

Lasting as memory, Faster than friendshipdeeper than the wave Is the affection of a mindless brute.

Relying on his diminutive size for his security, he comes quite up to our door-step, mindless of the people who are assembled round it, and, fearless of danger, picks up the crumbs that are scattered there.

A poor relation of Stephen's perhapsa helpless, mindless creature, whose infirmities had been thus hidden from the world.

What recollections did they summon in the mind of the destitute and almost mindless creature?

The mindless old manhe who had been Presidentwent with it.

There are flocks and herds now grazing upon the boundless prairies of America, the vast plains of Australia, the steppes of Russia, as well as on the smaller and greener pastures of England, France, and Germany, that bear these finger-marks of Jonas Webb, as mindless but everlasting memories to his worth.

His hat just rounded his head to a more globular and mindless form.

After a night without sleep, after a day among their dead and wounded, after torrents of shell-fire, after breathing smoke, dust and gas, these veterans were in a state of exaltation entirely oblivious of danger, of their surroundings, mindless of what came next, automatically shooting to kill as they were trained to do, even as a man pulls with all his might in the crucial test of a tug of war.

By that name let him stand forth impaled upon the scorn of an age that has not lost the grace of reverence, who, mindless of majestic age, the dignity of letters, an influence unrivalled and benign, associations tender and most holy, upon these venerable and sacred books spits his shallow scepticism, spumes his spleenful sarcasm, and smuts them with his own sensuality.

Thus read the matchless stories of the Hebrews, mindless of legend or of myth.

The bridal oxen in their well-filled stalls Sleep, mindless of the happy weight they drew.

Earth and thought and time Lie far beyond them, a great gulf of joy, Absorbing fear, regret and every grief, A warm eternity: or now perchance Night and the very weight of happiness, Unsought, have turned upon their tremulous eyes The mindless stream of sleep; nor do they care