His energy, tact, unscrupulousness, and art in conciliating the hostile and animating the indifferent made him unequalled in political finesse.

All other work was neglected: rare clients were sent away and amazed editors found this maniac indifferent to his chance of getting book-parcels from them.

Against the first vedettes of rebellion the army of routine will always muster, and it gathers to itself the indifferent, the startled cowards, the thinkers whose thought is finished, the lawyers whose laws are fixedan innumerable host.

The government seemed to be based on the policy of giving an earnest man all the advantages to be got out of the institution, and getting the indifferent through the course with the least discredit.

For the moment the presence of Douglas not only gave spirit and fresh industry to his followers, but the novelty impressed the indifferent and the wavering.

But oddly, the very existence of that little document kept her indifferent even to the laugh.

It is this which makes one feel so much of it to be strained and unnatural, and which brings it to pass that some of his most ambitious efforts leave the reader indifferent, or even now and then contemptuous.

Art diverts the mind from low and commonplace pursuits, exalts the imagination, and makes its votary indifferent to the evils of life.

To the tenderfoot's remark the guide mumbled an indifferent .

These princes, therefore, and the Thrasiansthey, too, were not receiving their full paybecame indifferent; and Perseus fell into such depths of despair again as actually to sue for peace.

And Smiley says, sorter indifferent-like, "It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain'tit's only just a frog.

It disseminated new ideas among the masses, stirred up the indifferent to feel an interest in the affairs of the country, and gave a purpose to the national aspirations.