unheedful
Example Sentences
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He was not unheedful of these charms in the scene, though his thoughts were busily employed with a subject foreign to their contemplation.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
And he walked straight to his desk, eyes dead ahead like a somnambulist's, unheedful of the men who watched him silently with drawn, anxious faces.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
They all avoided each other, and, though surrounded by a multitude that no one could number, each wandered at random, unheedful of the rest, as if alone on a desert no foot had trodden.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
If this should never end— This wandering in oblivious mood Along a rutless road that leads From wood to deeper wood— This crunching with unheedful foot Acorns, I think, and withered leaves ...
From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice
Such cases, it is true, have been somewhat rare, for made oftentimes on the impulse of the moment, "unheedful vows," as Shakespeare says, "may heedfully be broken."
From Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
