unheedful

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Stolidly with unheedful, drooping ears the little fox-terrier resumed his seat on the rug.

From Molly Make-Believe by Tittle, Walter

Every simple mind has a little well of beauty somewhere in its precincts, which flows and warbles, even when the owner is unheedful.

From David Elginbrod by MacDonald, George

Soon he would drop into a maudlin sleep, and his master might, unheedful of the monotonous and confused proceedings, take refuge from this mockery within himself until the verdict came.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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 Kennedy, John Pendleton

O Lord, I have been talking to the people; Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zone, And the recoil of my words' airy ripple My heart unheedful has puffed up and blown.

From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by MacDonald, George