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  • Washington was no less a commanding presence than ever, and except for his raging outburst at Kips Bay, he seemed imperturbable, entirely in control.†   (source)
  • But she was astonished at how imperturbable Salander was.†   (source)
  • In the painting by Giorgione, the woman and her baby are imperturbable, the center of the universe.†   (source)
  • They sit so poised and imperturbable while she points out the excellence of Miss Helene's coiffure, achieved without a looking-glass.†   (source)
  • " Abra continued in her concentrated imperturbability, "Do you want to have a mother?"†   (source)
  • As they approached, several of the well-disciplined, imperturbable monks uttered brief exclamations.†   (source)
  • Imperturbably Karden waited for her sobbing to stop.†   (source)
  • Imperturbable as an oracle, he prophesied disastrous upheavals in the near future.†   (source)
  • The artist, who now smoked a cigarette, was wholly as imperturbable, if not quite as large bodily, as he had seemed on the Aeolian Hall stage the evening before.†   (source)
  • Powell continued imperturbably.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I hope the door isn't Imperturbable…"†   (source)
  • Let's see if St Mungo's puts Imperturbable Charms on its ward doors, shall we?†   (source)
  • She was imperturbable: "This is another one."†   (source)
  • 'Didn' matter,' said Hagrid imperturbably, 'Dumbledore had warned us tha' migh' happen.†   (source)
  • He was patient, imperturbable, and at times sound asleep in his chair.†   (source)
  • The Buddha, looking imperturbable, returned his attention to the drama.†   (source)
  • Chamberlin had planned the meeting as a trap to try to shatter Holmes's imperturbable facade, and was impressed with Holmes's ability to maintain his insouciance despite the rancor in the room.†   (source)
  • But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly slow, imperturbable rays.†   (source)
  • He waited in the middle of the stage, as imperturbable as the apostle of a Divine Providence less dramatic than ours, and as soon as it was quiet he read the winning poem.†   (source)
  • …but with abundant salty tears that ran down her cheeks and burned her nightdress and inflamed her life, because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when faced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.†   (source)
  • "We have to prepare some meat and fish," she would order the four cooks, who hastened to have everything ready under the imperturbable direction of Santa Sofia de la Piedad.†   (source)
  • Warned repeatedly that he was surrounded by spies both French and British, the imperturbable Franklin declared he had no worry, since he had nothing to hide.†   (source)
  • He seemed more enthusiastic, more vital than his imperturbable adversary, who possessed a style that was obviously more professional, but at the same time less emotional for the large crowd that filled the house.†   (source)
  • He could sense a cold shadow passing through the room, and interpreted this as a sign that the patient felt fear and shame beneath her imperturbable exterior.†   (source)
  • WASHINGTON IS SAID TO HAVE WEPT as he watched the tragedy unfold from across the river, and though this seems unlikely, given his well-documented imperturbability, he surely wept within his soul.†   (source)
  • It was serene, imperturbable, gratuitous: it was of course the look of "good country people" at such times.†   (source)
  • Then he looked up at the wide-eyed monk who had watched him, smiled his imperturbable smile and laid the cord aside.†   (source)
  • As though for reassurance he looked up at the imperturbable face in the portrait.†   (source)
  • I fancied that the mention of a royal prince rather shook Miss Oglander's imperturbable calm.†   (source)
  • Imperturbability could be depended upon.†   (source)
  • "Now, don't fly off the handle and get your Irish up," he interrupted imperturbably.†   (source)
  • 'It is done by Hercule Poirot,' replied my friend imperturbably.†   (source)
  • When the peaks were pink in the morning they invited him among them: and when the sun had gone over the edge in the evening and the mountains were a purple-like despair, then Jody was afraid of them; then they were so impersonal and aloof that their very imperturbability was a threat.†   (source)
  • …the way he walked and talked and wore his clothes and handed Ellen into the dining room or into the carriage and (perhaps, probably) kissed her hand and which Ellen envied for Henry, but the man himself—that fatalistic and impenetrable imperturbability with which he watched them while he waited for them to do whatever it would be that they would do, as if he had known all the while that the occasion would arise when he would have to wait and that all he would need to do would be…†   (source)
  • Once he walked, dragging one foot after another in his famished weakness, to the temple of the earth, and deliberately he spat upon the face of the small, imperturbable god who sat there with his goddess.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER L Rhett never deviated from his smooth, imperturbable manners, even in their most intimate moments.†   (source)
  • Imperturbably he drank his Scotch, wheeled from the mirror with barking Colt just one-sixth of a second before the gambler could fire.†   (source)
  • He had come back, I remember, from a Sunday tramp, smelling airy and muddy in his rough suit, and there on the hearthrug was the stout imperturbable Dermod O'Brien, in love with Stella, and asked, out of kindness, to stay to dinner.†   (source)
  • Though he didn't look at a disadvantage, only imperious and imperturbable, with no uneasy flinch of disgrace at being a man of importance seen helpless before terrible needs.†   (source)
  • Imperturbable.†   (source)
  • Eugene picked the tools up, and took them back to the imperturbable Uncle, who repurchased them for only a few dollars less than the sum they had paid him in the morning.†   (source)
  • Smiling with imperturbable tenderness, Mrs. Selborne thrust out her heavy legs slowly to swell with warm ripe smack his gift of flowered green-silk garters.†   (source)
  • "I'll bet you-all he'll come back to thet tree inside of five minnits," he offered, imperturbably.†   (source)
  • "Reckon any means justifies the end," replied Joe, imperturbably.†   (source)
  • But Louis took and gave a spoke and gazed imperturbably into the binnacle.†   (source)
  • "It's shore powerful strange how he hates thet handle Las Vegas," went on Roy, imperturbably.†   (source)
  • "A little patience, I entreat, citoyenne," he continued imperturbably.†   (source)
  • He was a thick, imperturbable sort of fellow, and possibly, Tom thought, he might be a Swede.†   (source)
  • "I never suggest," returned Mr. Jackson imperturbably.†   (source)
  • 'Every doctor should be—a little,' answered that original, imperturbably.†   (source)
  • Hard by, the aisle of the church called the d'Urberville Aisle looked on imperturbably.†   (source)
  • "Dug or stole is all the same!" boomed the imperturbable Gulden.†   (source)
  • She was tired of polished, imperturbable men who sought only to please her.†   (source)
  • "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my companion imperturbably.†   (source)
  • Then he turned away, imperturbable as ever.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless the imperturbable Indian never slacked his pace.†   (source)
  • We'd last longer," replied Gulden, imperturbably.†   (source)
  • "We will obey, citoyen," replied the soldiers as imperturbably as ever.†   (source)
  • "Times has changed, Snake," was the imperturbable reply.†   (source)
  • He was serious, slow in speech and action, and absolutely imperturbable.†   (source)
  • She lays all out on the grass, aided by the two imperturbable lackeys who were behind the carriage.†   (source)
  • "About what?" asked the imperturbable Smoke.†   (source)
  • Imperturbably, but smiling no more, the Levantine passed with his wares to another table.†   (source)
  • Boss, they was sure scared of thet gun-slingin' cowboy from Texas," replied Weaver, imperturbably.†   (source)
  • "I think, citoyen, that there is no one there now," replied one of the soldiers imperturbably.†   (source)
  • Madeline looked at the imperturbable driver.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the imperturbable scout was knocking buffalo down as if they had been tenpins.†   (source)
  • "I protest 'tis marvellous!" continued Sir Percy, imperturbably, "demmed marvellous!†   (source)
  • She discovered she liked this imperturbable Englishman.†   (source)
  • If imperturbability could ever be good humor, then he was always good-humored.†   (source)
  • With her imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet.†   (source)
  • "Seven hundred and seven miles from Liverpool," replied Mr. Fogg, with imperturbable calmness.†   (source)
  • He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.†   (source)
  • His imperturbable face has been as inexpressive as his rusty clothes.†   (source)
  • She was monumentally stout and imperturbably serene.†   (source)
  • And he was the more esteemed for this imperturbable coolness.†   (source)
  • Quasimodo had resumed, to all appearance, his first imperturbability.†   (source)
  • "Patience! patience!" replied the imperturbable professor.†   (source)
  • I believe there never was anybody with such an imperturbable countenance when she chose.†   (source)
  • Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tulkinghorn is as imperturbable as the hearthstone to which he has quietly walked.†   (source)
  • He looked at his imperturbable master, and could scarcely bring his mind to leave him.†   (source)
  • About herself he had gained no knowledge; she was imperturbable, inscrutable, impenetrable.†   (source)
  • "Probably," said Monte Cristo with his imperturbable tranquillity.†   (source)
  • The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: "An assassin and a thief.†   (source)
  • When the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is disconcerted.†   (source)
  • She was almost renowned in the congregation for this imperturbable veracity.†   (source)
  • Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:— "You were not at the school day before yesterday."†   (source)
  • His imperturbable and mature calmness was that of an expert in possession of the facts, and to whom one's perplexities are mere child's-play.†   (source)
  • She expected the agent to fly into a passion, but he was, to her bewilderment, as ever imperturbable; he even offered to go and get a lawyer for her, but she declined this.†   (source)
  • He seems absolutely imperturbable.†   (source)
  • CYRANO (imperturbably): Is that all?†   (source)
  • For Clyde, who up to this time and particularly since the thunderbolt of the letter, had been seeking to face it all with an imperturbable look of patient innocence, now stiffened and then wilted.†   (source)
  • "The only way to learn to paint,' he went on, imperturbable, "is to take a studio, hire a model, and just fight it out for yourself.'†   (source)
  • An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.†   (source)
  • He has NOT literally 'ever,' in these weeks that I myself have lived with him and so closely watched him; he has been an imperturbable little prodigy of delightful, lovable goodness.†   (source)
  • She paused a moment before the last name, and shot a query through her lashes; but he remained imperturbable.†   (source)
  • He puffed imperturbably at his pipe for a time, but finally arose and began to look out at the window into the darkening chaos of back yards.†   (source)
  • The speed slackened on the second turn, and decreased as, mile after mile, the imperturbable Indian held roan and gray side to side and let them run.†   (source)
  • Larger and ever more imperturbable was the mountain in the star-filtered darkness, and the lake a limitless pavement of black marble.†   (source)
  • Tubbs came in now and then, found him busy, patted his shoulder, said something which sounded like French and might even have been French, and gave vague encouragement; while Gottlieb imperturbably told him to go ahead, and now and then stirred him by showing his own note-books (they were full of figures and abbreviations, stupid-seeming as invoices of calico) or by speaking of his own work, in a vocabulary as heathenish as Tibetan magic: "Arrhenius and Madsen have made a contribution…†   (source)
  • More than mountains or the shore-devouring sea, a city retains its character, imperturbable, cynical, holding behind apparent changes its essential purpose.†   (source)
  • They charge" (and here Clyde, because of whispered advice from Jephson, was leaning back as comfortably as possible and gazing as imperturbably as possible upon the face of Mason, who was looking directly at him) "that this same Clyde Griffiths, before ever this crime was committed by him, plotted for weeks the plan and commission of it, and then, with malice aforethought and in cold blood, executed it.†   (source)
  • The last act was a triumph for the hero, poor and of the masses, the representative of the audience, over the villain and the rich man, his pockets stuffed with bonds, his heart packed with tyrannical purposes, imperturbable amid suffering.†   (source)
  • Jurgis had given them so many instructions and warned them against so many perils, that the women were quite pale with fright, and even the imperturbable delicatessen vender, who prided himself upon being a businessman, was ill at ease.†   (source)
  • "It's an unlikely name for a New York telegraph office; at least in this quarter," an unexpected voice observed; and turning around Archer saw Lawrence Lefferts at his elbow, pulling an imperturbable moustache and affecting not to glance at the message.†   (source)
  • I have rolled my hump (roule ma bosse)," he said, using the slang expression with imperturbable seriousness, "in all parts of the world; I have known brave men—famous ones!†   (source)
  • Louis stood imperturbably at the wheel, but I noticed the grouped sailors forward turning troubled faces in our direction.†   (source)
  • "The tears fell from her eyes—and then she died," concluded the girl in an imperturbable monotone, which more than anything else, more than the white statuesque immobility of her person, more than mere words could do, troubled my mind profoundly with the passive, irremediable horror of the scene.†   (source)
  • The giant was imperturbable.†   (source)
  • After the meal suspense and strain were manifested in all the fugitives, even the imperturbable Indian being more than usually watchful.†   (source)
  • "Only saw her about thirty minutes, an' then, 'cause Tom was shore rarin' to leave, Sally an' me was busy gettin' married," replied Dave, with vast assumed imperturbability.†   (source)
  • Once more Blakeney turned, and from his high altitude looked down on the choleric little man before him; but not even for a second did he seem to lose his own imperturbable good-humour.†   (source)
  • And, with a last ironical smile and bow, he once more kissed her hand, and disappeared down the footpath in the wake of the soldiers, and followed by the imperturbable Desgas.†   (source)
  • He looked at the imperturbable cowboy.†   (source)
  • The imperturbable Link took off his cap and goggles and, consulting his watch, made his usual apologetic report to Madeline, deploring the fact that a teamster and a few stray cattle on the road had held him down to the manana time of only a mile a minute.†   (source)
  • In his beautiful house at Richmond he played second fiddle to his clever wife with imperturbable BONHOMIE; he lavished jewels and luxuries of all kinds upon her, which she took with inimitable grace, dispensing the hospitality of his superb mansion with the same graciousness with which she had welcomed the intellectual coterie of Paris.†   (source)
  • The cowboys roared; Helen and Mrs. Beck and Edith laughed till they cried; Madeline found repression absolutely impossible; Dorothy sat hugging her knees, her horror at the story no greater than at Monty's unmistakable reference to her and to the fickleness of women; and Castleton for the first time appeared to be moved out of his imperturbability, though not in any sense by humor.†   (source)
  • Mr Folair turned his head—now ornamented with several fragments of the note—towards Nicholas, and with the same imperturbable dignity, briefly replied 'No.'†   (source)
  • Instead of there being before him the pale face of Eustacia, and a masculine shape unknown, there was only the imperturbable countenance of the heath, which, having defied the cataclysmal onsets of centuries, reduced to insignificance by its seamed and antique features the wildest turmoil of a single man.†   (source)
  • He was as imperturbable as ever, to all appearance, and nodded his head in a moralising way as he looked round the room.†   (source)
  • She looked at his two sisters, and saw them making signs of derision at each other, and at Darcy, who continued, however, imperturbably grave.†   (source)
  • This conviction passed into his mind with extreme rapidity; it was perhaps kindled by the pure radiance of the young lady's imperturbable gaze.†   (source)
  • Will could not resist this imperturbable temper, and the cloud in his face broke into sunshiny laughter.†   (source)
  • And so saying, he moved along the windlass, here and there using his leg very freely, while imperturbable Bildad kept leading off with his psalmody.†   (source)
  • Some would even descend from their vehicles and feel the horses' legs; asking inane questions, or, through sheer ignorance of the vernacular, grossly insulting the imperturbable trader.†   (source)
  • These words were pronounced with that imperturbable phlegm which distinguished Athos in the hour of danger, and with that excessive politeness which made of him at certain moments a king more majestic than kings by birth.†   (source)
  • But when St. John had mused a few moments he recommenced as imperturbably and with as much acumen as ever.†   (source)
  • The boy drew his chubby face down to a formidable length, and commenced toning a psalm tune through his nose, with imperturbable gravity.†   (source)
  • She thought it would annoy him, but he only folded his arms under his head, with an imperturbable, "That's not bad.†   (source)
  • He curtsied low, and then bowed almost to the ground, with an imperturbable gravity that seemed almost suspicious.†   (source)
  • "Good," said the imperturbable master.†   (source)
  • Dr. Stockmann (imperturbably).†   (source)
  • He was not gifted with an imperturbable temper, and on music-nights it was apparent that patience could never be an easy virtue to him; but this evening, as he glances over his spectacles at Bill Downes, the sawyer, who is turning his head on one side with a desperate sense of blankness before the letters d-r-y, his eyes shed their mildest and most encouraging light.†   (source)
  • I was certainly extremely fortunate in my interpreters in the enterprise, and that not alone in respect of their artistic talent; for had it not been for their superhuman patience, their imperturbable good humor and good fellowship, there could have been no performance.†   (source)
  • The tumult thundered above him; he looked around; in the cabin all was confusion—the rowers on the benches paralyzed; men running blindly hither and thither; only the chief on his seat imperturbable, vainly beating the sounding-board, and waiting the orders of the tribune—in the red murk illustrating the matchless discipline which had won the world.†   (source)
  • His good humour was imperturbable, his knowledge of the right fact, his production of the right word, as convenient as the friendly flicker of a match for your cigarette.†   (source)
  • Her father's opinion of her moral purity was abundantly justified; she was excellently, imperturbably good; affectionate, docile, obedient, and much addicted to speaking the truth.†   (source)
  • At the same time Mercedes reappeared, paler than before, but with that imperturbable expression of countenance which she sometimes wore.†   (source)
  • "My captain, you must have ere this perceived, respected sir"—said the imperturbable godly-looking Bunger, slightly bowing to Ahab—"is apt to be facetious at times; he spins us many clever things of that sort.†   (source)
  • A fine organ, imperturbable coolness, more temperament than intelligence, more power of emphasis than of real singing, made up the charm of this admirable charlatan nature, in which there was something of the hairdresser and the toreador.†   (source)
  • All the rest of that day, and from morning to night afterwards, she sat at that desk, scratching composedly with a hard pen, speaking in the same imperturbable whisper to everybody; never relaxing a muscle of her face, or softening a tone of her voice, or appearing with an atom of her dress astray.†   (source)
  • …with the greatest apparent gusto, and then, descending among the various brethren of his own color, assembled on the same errand, he would edify and delight them with the most ludicrous burlesques and imitations, all delivered with the most imperturbable earnestness and solemnity; and though the auditors immediately about him were generally of his own color, it not infrequently happened that they were fringed pretty deeply with those of a fairer complexion, who listened, laughing and…†   (source)
  • Anatole was not quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable self-possession.†   (source)
  • With his foot upon his enemy's back, he raised his shield overhead after a gladiatorial custom, and saluted the imperturbable soldiers by the gate.†   (source)
  • "That will do," went on the imperturbable auditor, when he supposed that the accused had finished his third reply.†   (source)
  • From the earliest to the latest hour of the day he was always as sleek, neat, and cool as the frog he resembled, and old Peter had secretly chuckled over an offshoot almost more calculating, and far more imperturbable, than himself.†   (source)
  • Ralph was imperturbable—Ralph had a kind of loose-fitting urbanity that wrapped him about like an ill-made overcoat, but of which he never divested himself; he thought Mr. Osmond very good company and was willing at any time to look at him in the light of hospitality.†   (source)
  • Imperturbable and unchangeable as he is, there is still an indefinable freedom in his manner which is new and which does not escape this woman's observation.†   (source)
  • Henrietta returned imperturbably.†   (source)
  • "For the last time, do you confess the facts in the case?" demanded Charmolue, with his imperturbable benignity.†   (source)
  • Mr. Cadwallader was a large man, with full lips and a sweet smile; very plain and rough in his exterior, but with that solid imperturbable ease and good-humor which is infectious, and like great grassy hills in the sunshine, quiets even an irritated egoism, and makes it rather ashamed of itself.†   (source)
  • The elderly magnate was at first as much taken aback by this suggestion of marriage with a woman whose husband was alive, as the younger man had been, but Helene's imperturbable conviction that it was as simple and natural as marrying a maiden had its effect on him too.†   (source)
  • The count's anxiety was manifested by a bright color which seldom appeared on the face of that imperturbable man.†   (source)
  • Thus, a terrible impression steals upon and overshadows her that from this pursuer, living or dead—obdurate and imperturbable before her in his well-remembered shape, or not more obdurate and imperturbable in his coffin-bed—there is no escape but in death.†   (source)
  • A deep silence settled over the assembly, accompanied by stifled laughter at the preposterous names and all the bourgeois designations which each of these personages transmitted with imperturbable gravity to the usher, who then tossed names and titles pell-mell and mutilated to the crowd below.†   (source)
  • "Alas, madame," said the procureur with his imperturbable calmness of manner, "I consider those alone misfortunes which are irreparable."†   (source)
  • "Very well," replied M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, since like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, he was occupied with seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.†   (source)
  • But it's chafing and galling—it's— it's worse than your smattering chattering magpie of a grandmother," to the imperturbable Judy, who only looks at the fire, "to know he has got what's wanted and won't give it up.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, from her dull eyes there escaped a look, an ineffable look, a profound, lugubrious, imperturbable look, incessantly fixed upon a corner of the cell which could not be seen from without; a gaze which seemed to fix all the sombre thoughts of that soul in distress upon some mysterious object.†   (source)
  • "Now, let us see," says Mr. Tulkinghorn, tapping his chin with the key and looking imperturbably at her, "how this matter stands."†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, one man paced imperturbably back and forth in front of the tavern, gazing at it incessantly, and going no further from it than a pikernan from his sentry-box.†   (source)
  • "Only," continued Clopin imperturbably, "you will be hung later on, with more ceremony, at the expense of the good city of Paris, on a handsome stone gibbet, and by honest men.†   (source)
  • They ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible.†   (source)
  • Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the pavement.†   (source)
  • Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that epoch, insurrection liked to install itself.†   (source)
  • While his tumultuous friends, captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but irreproachable; phlegmatic, but imperturbable.†   (source)
  • One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct kept him on the alert and uneasy.†   (source)
  • But Cosette remained immured in her apparent unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists."†   (source)
  • A powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall.†   (source)
  • On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming…†   (source)
  • "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin.†   (source)
  • This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties connected with the sewers and surveillance.†   (source)
  • He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the man pass.†   (source)
  • Looking in Rupert's direction, I saw him nod fractionally as he caught Dougal's eye, though he went on with the story imperturbably.†   (source)
  • The pluterperfect imperturbability of the department of agriculture.†   (source)
  • that an omnivorous being which can masticate, deglute, digest and apparently pass through the ordinary channel with pluterperfect imperturbability such multifarious aliments as cancrenous females emaciated by parturition, corpulent professional gentlemen, not to speak of jaundiced politicians and chlorotic nuns, might possibly find gastric relief in an innocent collation of staggering bob, reveals as nought else could and in a very unsavoury light the tendency above alluded to.†   (source)
  • …of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persistent formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas and downward tending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and…†   (source)
  • He was, as has been said, standing on Rocinante, with his arm passed through the hole and his wrist tied to the bolt of the door, and in mighty fear and dread of being left hanging by the arm if Rocinante were to stir one side or the other; so he did not dare to make the least movement, although from the patience and imperturbable disposition of Rocinante, he had good reason to expect that he would stand without budging for a whole century.†   (source)
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