Mr. Bennett, who was among the guests, having forgiven my carelessness, invited me to accompany him to the Liederkranz masked ball, which was to take place in a few evenings, and would be a grand spectacle.

And ever shall be so, replied she tartly, only to punish your carelessness of a lady's favour; know, that it was a piece of wit which would have been highly agreeable to you:but don't expect I shall take the pains to write it over again, or even tell you the subject on which it turned.

"Oh, about Mr. Dunwody," he assented, assuming a carelessness which she read through at once.

Then, feeling the futility of this, she pretended carelessness, trying to deceive God into the belief that she didn't think so very much of the doctor anyway.

Obi, one of their best warriors, perhaps feeling the confident carelessness of the Kureisch was misplaced, wanted to go back without attacking.

" And on the other side of the sign, challenging the possible carelessness of the chance visitor, was the legend: "Now you've been in and had your chuck, Please close this gate, just once, for luck.

If the teacher displays constant cheerfulness, he sends out among his boys streams of energy and good will, new life pours into them, their attention is stimulated, and the sympathy of the teacher conquers the carelessness of the boy.

XIV THE PURBHOO I do not believe that the Member of Parliament who moved the adjournment of the House to consider the culpable carelessness of the Government of India in allowing the Rajah of Muttighur to fall into the moat of his own castle when he was drunk, could have told you what a Purbhoo is, not though you had spelled it Prabhu, so that he could find it in his Gazetteer.

The sheriff mentally cursed his own carelessness for allowing him to be caught in such a predicament.

No one will deny a certain carelessness marks the delineation of form, no one will gainsay a frankly sensuous charm pervades the scene, a feeling which seems at first sight inconsistent with that reticence and modesty so conspicuous elsewhere.

But now we do the contrary, and employ against death the attempt to escape; and to our opinion about it we employ carelessness, rashness, and indifference.

But Baini exposes Pitoni's carelessness, proves the existence of Ridolfo and Silla by the inclusion of their works in the father's book, and shows that Doralice was the wife of Palestrina's son Angelo.

"You won't fear any such carelessness on his part when you see him," Josephine assured her confidently.

"In authorship I hold carelessness to be a mortal sin."

But he did not want to look impatient, and, imitating the other's carelessness, sat down and lighted a cigarette while he pondered.

The confounding of names with the things for which they stand, implies, unquestionably, great carelessness in the use of speech, and great indistinctness of apprehension in respect to things; yet so common is this error, that Murray himself has many times fallen into it.

At the worst one can only impute carelessness" "Oh, but it wasn't carelessness!

The War has increased carelessness, you know.

Success is apt to induce carelessness; and, as the task proceeded, Willoughby's arm worked with greater rapidity, until a noise at the door gave the startling information that he was about to be visited.

I guess he was capable of making a complete job of itcovering up his carelessness by getting rid of the woman who was such a damning piece of evidence against his professional skill.

You know his carelessness.

Child as I was, I could not help observing the carelessness of the nurses, and their great neglect of cleanliness.

Let not this occasion our carelessness in watching against sin; for that would be, to turn his grace into wantonness; but rather let it sharpen our diligence in watching against all occasions of sin, lest we again defile our soul.

When the same people got used to him, perceived the bonhomie of his character, his carelessness about money matters, and his easy household ways, they were sometimes known to take all the more advantage of him from having needlessly feared him at first.

The children were playing on the bankswith that divine carelessness and innocence which made one's heart ache for them in this beastly business of warand their fathers and mothers, whose worldly goods had been packed into baskets and brown paper parcelsthe poor relics of all that had been theirswondered whether after all their sufferings and struggles they would reach the town of Amiens and find safety there.