"Unheeding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... around to come in and attend the singeing school. Men in accurate clothes, with faces like those carved on cherry stones by the old salts in sailors' homes, turned and stared at Dulcie as she sped, unheeding, past them. Manhattan, the night-blooming cereus, was beginning to unfold ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... could be no Paradise without it. A curse and a Savior! Our life-term sentence and the one plan of salvation! Work for the weary, the wasted, and the worn. Work— for the joyous, the hopeful, the serene. Work—for the benevolent and the malevolent, the just and the cruel, the thoughtful and the unheeding. Work—for things that life needs, for things that are illusions, for dead-sea fruit, for ashes; and work for a look at the stars, for the sense of things made happier for many men, for the lifting of loads from tired backs, for the smile of a tender ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... and sable ilex, spread The wood, and, glimmering in the twilight grey, Through broken tracks a narrow pathway led. The shadowy boughs, the cumbrous spoils delay Euryalus, and fear mistakes the way. Nisus, unheeding, through the foemen flies, And gains the place,—called Alba now—where lay Latinus' pastures; then with back-turned eyes Stands still, and seeks in vain his ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension. ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... of her hand she flung open the door, and leaning out, called shrilly for the driver to stop. He went on unheeding, as though he had ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer
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