"Inattentive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do justice to genius; and kindred genius alone will do it. There have been, no doubt, a great many writers of biography who had no objection to compensate their feelings for bygone slights or discourtesies, suffered from some wayward or inattentive superiority, some stroke of ridicule or malice. Literary antipathies do not die with the dead. The posthumous impression of Margaret Fuller Ossoli has been colored by some who sneer at her ways and ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... Arguelles, are doing all in their power to keep the young Queen and the Infanta in good humour, encouraging the Princesses in many little indulgences suitable to their age and sex, especially in the article of dress, in which their royal mother was more than inattentive. This line of conduct, coupled with the expected arrival of the Infant, Don Francisco de Paula and his family, who are to be received with every mark of respect, indicates that the present rulers ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 2, 1841 • Various
... fireplace in the hall—for the nights were growing chill—playing games, or listening to Jacqueline's music, or telling stories like children, until nine o'clock; at which hour Mrs. Kildare assembled her household, white and black, read a few prayers in a firm but inattentive manner, ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... attention and said, "Of course. It is natural," for I feared to have him know that I was inattentive even for that short ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... words of Heraka, who was higher in rank than he, and he pursed his lips thoughtfully, trying to decide what he would do. Then he heard a woof and a snort, and a sudden lurch of a heavy body. He sprang to his feet in alarm. While he was thinking and inattentive, Rota (the grizzly bear), not yet gone into his winter sleep, vast ...
— The Great Sioux Trail - A Story of Mountain and Plain • Joseph Altsheler
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