It was a clear, fresh young voice singing a plaintive ditty in a nonchalant, careless tone.

I was nonchalant, impassive; alert, without seeming to be so.

Then to his great surprise he made out, further in at the back of the room, chatting with Capitan Basilio, the curate, and the alferez of the Civil Guard, no less than the jeweler Simoun, as ever with his blue goggles and his nonchalant air.

At mass one day the gobernadorcillo of the natives was seated on a bench to the right, and, being extremely thin, happened to cross one of his legs over the other, thus adopting a nonchalant attitude, in order to expose his thighs more and display his pretty shoes.

I'll soon show him that the girl's not worth a second thought," replied Flockart with nonchalant air.

He was undeniably good-looking, nonchalant, and a thorough-going man of the world.

Won't you come down?" Harrie thanked him, saying, in a pleasant nonchalant way, that she could not leave the baby.

So they sat round the fire, and Tom gave an account of himself; while his father marked with pride that the young man had grown and strengthened in body and in mind; and that under that nonchalant, almost cynical outside, the heart still beat honest and kindly.

" "Yes, yes, I remember," said the Elder, with a manner so nonchalant that he was frightened at his own diplomacy.

John Gray was nonchalant, shrewd, vacillating.

He accepted the proposal with unconcealed delight; and I wondered if Ellen observed the very nonchalant way in which he replied when she said she did not feel well enough to go.

When he saw who it was he came up with a rather swaggering and nonchalant effect.

She'd done the nonchalant, all right,overdone it a bit in factas long as there was any one around to play up to.

The great hall had seemed familiar to her already as she stepped across it on her way to the stairs, her feet had pressed the rugs with assurance, she had been able to be quite nonchalant about refusing the services of the maid who offered to help her dress.

" He led the way past the mess-house, from the doorway of which the aproned cook eyed her with frank curiosity, hailing his employer with nonchalant air, a cigarette resting in one corner of his mouth.

This done, I started the engine, and brought up the cage from the bottom, the 300 yards of wire-rope winding with a quaint deliberateness round the drum, reminding me of a camel's nonchalant leisurely obedience.

She has that same light, unconscious, and nonchalant cleverness, and easy way of life.

The presence of Leonora's servants; the nonchalant, mocking air with which she welcomed him at the door; the irony with which she met his every hint at a declaration had always crushed, humiliated him.

" They took leave of each other in the corridor with the noisy, nonchalant joy of passion, indifferent to the chamber-maids who were walking to and fro at the other end of the passageway.

The only nonchalant man of the lot was he who had actually used the weapon.

And yet how still the landscape stands, How nonchalant the wood, As if the resurrection Were nothing very odd! V. TO MARCH.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, his aunt's manner had been too nonchalant to give him any clues.

I convinced him by a nonchalant manner and story, that I had come by the idol accidentally.

For the delight of his spirit and the joy of his eyes, he had desired a few suggestive creations that cast him into an unknown world, revealing to him the contours of new conjectures, agitating the nervous system by the violent deliriums, complicated nightmares, nonchalant or atrocious chimerae they induced.

" Naturally the garage man was somewhat perturbed at this nonchalant manner of getting acquainted with a Ford.