He grew careless of life, and wished for death; but the near approach of Malcolm's army roused in him what remained of his ancient courage, and he determined to die (as he expressed it) "with armour on his back."

This whirl of emotion rose and rose in her, went insanely through her brain, and, becoming intolerable, suddenly ceased and left her careless, numb, and hard.

She's getting dreadful careless about her clothes.

An' he waved his hand careless over to the settin' sun.

I went very early to the next weekly meeting, and was entertaining a small circle very successfully with a minute representation of my lord mayor's show, when the colonel entered careless and gay, sat down with a kind of unceremonious civility, and without appearing to intend any interruption, drew my audience away to the other part of the room, to which I had not the courage to follow them.

For I found that book, if not always read, yet still talked and thought of on every side, among persons whom I should have fancied careless of its subject, and even ignorant of its existence, but to whom I was personally bound to give some answer as to the book and its worth.

Eh?' "'No, an' I don't give a damn,' says I, free an' careless.

That's what's wrong with lots of young boys; they git careless and dirty, and then they take to smoking and drinking just natcherally.

The verse is of the homeliest; indeed it is only a rollicking indifference to its own inanity that saves it from sheer puerility and gives it a careless and as it were impromptu charm of its own.

Geoffrey Annersley had been going his careless, happy go lucky way as an Oxford undergraduate when the sudden firing of a far off shot had startled the world and made war the one inevitable fact.

"Son," he said gravely, "the worst enemies I got will all tell you that Riley Sinclair don't handle his own word careless.

I ofttimes think to curse the Day, that tries To keep my babe hid in its envious breast, Smit with its hair of gold, and large blue eyes, Close hid within its mantle, careless of my sighs, That night and day must wake it from its rest.

"I can understand there being rascals in the outside world and that they should believe your careless, foolish old father lawful game, but that he should be thought a tool for dishonest thieving by members of his own family is incomprehensible.

You are to know these careless pretty Creatures are very Innocents again; and it is to be no matter what they do, for 'tis all harmless Freedom.

The latter half contains his religious poems, and one has only to read there the remarkable "Litany" to see how the religious terror that finds expression in Bunyan's Grace Abounding could master even the most careless of Cavalier singers.

CHAPTER V. "The fragrant birch above him hung Her tassels in the sky, And many a vernal blossom sprung, And nodded careless by.

All day long he rode beneath the trees careless of his going, conscious only that Benedict of Bourne rode behind with his bloody war-cloak wrapped about him.

The stars seemed mocking eyes that nightsmiling and safe in heaventhe moon, a cold and cruel enemy with her vapory train, so grandly sailing across the cloudless heavenso careless of our fatethe wreck of a ruined world as many deem herveiling in light her inward desolation.

It is not in truth a chapel at all, but a consecrated chamber in a very small, very lowly cottage, which stands, or one might appropriately, if not with absolute novelty, say which kneels, in the center of a large garden, a garden primeval in rusticity and size, its limits being defined by no lesser boundaries than the four intersecting streets outside, and its culture showing only the careless, shiftless culture of nature.

Happy in their own perfect wisdom and virtue, they "Sit beside their nectar, careless of mankind".

all I know is, that I can draw pleasure from the mere sight of you, as, perhaps, you do from the mere sight of me; so let us sit together, Nature and I, and stare into each other's eyes like two young lovers, careless of the morrow and its griefs.'

"'You'd better search the records,' I says, 'an' if it ain't so, stop bein' careless.

He began to tap a careless tattoo with his whip on the toe of his boot.

She looked every one of her thirty yearsand mortally tiredand careless of both facts.

Tell me now!" Someone was knocking a careless tattoo upon the outer door.