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  • Her mother called her remiss and indifferent.†   (source)
  • The chaplain shook his head, feeling despicably remiss because he did not know how to delegate responsibility and had no initiative, and because he really had been tempted to disagree with the colonel.†   (source)
  • I would be remiss in publishing a paper on relapsing fever without providing the clinician a practical way to make the diagnosis, particularly in settings where blood and serum tests are hard to come by.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, I would be remiss in my role as the impartial referee not to explore ways to arrive at an outcome that will give all sides something, though less than what they would like.†   (source)
  • For his part, Lee recklessly told General Gates that he thought Washington was only compounding his troubles by tolerating such "absurd interference" by the "cattle" in Congress in his conduct of the war, and that Washington was remiss for not "menacing 'em" with threats of resignation.†   (source)
  • Madame Lu once offered to put me in touch with Madame Stravinski, and I am remiss for not following up on this offer.†   (source)
  • I have been remiss.†   (source)
  • What he said made sense to Mattie, but there was something remiss in his reasoning and she couldn't quite figure out what it was.†   (source)
  • But I am a truthful man and I am an historian and feel that I would be remiss in my duties if I did not ringingly proclaim the truth no matter where I found it or in what shape.†   (source)
  • " I'd be remiss with no mention of Helen Keller, whose vision we saw and whose voice we heard fifty years ago, a deaf, dumb, and blind child.†   (source)
  • He was not requesting that I cover for him or whitewash the situation in any way; rather, he was simply reminding me of one of my usual duties, as though not wanting me to be remiss.†   (source)
  • "I realize that," Strassnitzky answered, "and, given such a rare opportunity, of which most men cannot even dream, I would be unforgivably remiss if I failed to seize it, would I not?†   (source)
  • Oh, I am being remiss.†   (source)
  • …nothing but having no horses of my own could have made me so remiss;   (source)
    remiss = inadequate performance (of a duty)
  • Mr. Rushworth is never remiss.   (source)
    remiss = careless in performing duties
  • Mrs. Norris began to look about her, and wonder that his falling in love with Julia had come to nothing; and could almost fear that she had been remiss herself in forwarding it; but with so many to care for, how was it possible for even her activity to keep pace with her wishes?   (source)
    remiss = negligent (careless in performing a duty)
  • But there he is, and, by the bye, his absence may sufficiently account for any remissness of his sister's in writing, for there has been no 'Well, Mary, when do you write to Fanny?'   (source)
    remissness = inadequate performance (of a duty)
  • "Ser, you've been remiss in teaching our new brothers their duties."†   (source)
  • " July didn't answer, but he felt he was remiss.†   (source)
  • With an apology for my remissness, I went into my own room to get the papers from my bag.†   (source)
  • He resolved that never through remissness would he make himself liable to such a visitation or do or omit aught that might merit even verbal reproof.†   (source)
  • Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.†   (source)
  • I did not return the family of Flints any thanks for their cordial invitation—a remissness for which I was, no doubt, charged with base ingratitude.†   (source)
  • Content with the momentary examination he had made, the eldest of the group, who was in truth the delinquent sentinel by whose remissness the wily Mahtoree had so well profited, turned towards his father and said bluntly— "If this man is all that is left of the party I saw on the upland, yonder, we haven't altogether thrown away our ammunition."†   (source)
  • Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion.†   (source)
  • He did not like to own that he had not as yet been to his parents' and his dear sister Anne—a remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Major.†   (source)
  • With her back supported against a tree, and sustained on one side by the young sentinel whose remissness had suffered Hetty to escape, sat the female whose expected visit had produced his delinquency.†   (source)
  • While he spoke, however, the young soldier seized his rifle, and advancing toward the front, prepared to atone for his venial remissness, by freely exposing his life in defense of those he attended.†   (source)
  • As soon as he had apologized for the remissness of his memory, he asked me if he should send Boots for Mr. Pumblechook?†   (source)
  • Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?†   (source)
  • Her frequent forgetfulness of this admonition intensified her startled manner, since Mr Flintwinch's habit of avenging himself on her remissness by making springs after her on the staircase, and shaking her, occasioned her to be always nervously uncertain when she might be thus waylaid next.†   (source)
  • …obligations of law and government unnecessary while they remained perfectly just to each other; but as nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice, it will unavoidably happen, that in proportion as they surmount the first difficulties of emigration, which bound them together in a common cause, they will begin to relax in their duty and attachment to each other; and this remissness will point out the necessity of establishing some form of government to supply the defect of moral virtue.†   (source)
  • The general, meanwhile, though offended every morning by Frederick's remissness in writing, was free from any real anxiety about him, and had no more pressing solicitude than that of making Miss Morland's time at Northanger pass pleasantly.†   (source)
  • Then hurriedly he begged her to forgive him; he felt he should have looked after her better, he'd been most remiss.†   (source)
  • She was the oldest member of her church and it would have been unseemly if the only grandchild in her home could not be brought to these important services; she felt that if I were completely remiss in religious conformity it would cast doubt upon the stanchness of her faith, her capacity to convince and persuade, or merely upon her ability to apply the rod to my backside.†   (source)
  • I'm awfully sorry you feel I've been remiss.†   (source)
  • "Faith! your ladyship must have thought me very remiss," said a voice suddenly, close to her elbow.†   (source)
  • How remiss I am to let you stay up so long.†   (source)
  • Not to wait upon a bride is very remiss.†   (source)
  • 'Mr Pancks,' was the Patriarchal remark, 'you have been remiss, you have been remiss, sir.'†   (source)
  • It is very remiss of me.†   (source)
  • He prayed that if any man there had been remiss toward the stranger come to a far country, God would forgive him and soften his heart.†   (source)
  • One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously.†   (source)
  • I don't think he'll find that I have been very remiss or confused in my way of conducting them; but that's for him to say—whoever he is—not for me.'†   (source)
  • Have I been remiss in anything?†   (source)
  • There were heliotropes, very remiss at living up to their sun–worshipping reputations since no sunlight ever reached them; their clusters of flowers drooped sadly, their colors and scents were faded.†   (source)
  • It certainly had been very remiss of him, as Mayor, he thought, to call no meeting ere this, to discuss what should be done on this holiday.†   (source)
  • Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting — eh?'†   (source)
  • As he passed them he said—"They are extremely handsome certainly, and you have done well to purchase them, although you were somewhat remiss not to have procured them sooner."†   (source)
  • That he might not be remiss in his part of the engagement, he resolved to wait full two hours, on this third and last night.†   (source)
  • She had been often remiss, her conscience told her so; remiss, perhaps, more in thought than fact; scornful, ungracious.†   (source)
  • Remiss in anything, my dear!†   (source)
  • Depend upon it, that was the case: and very likely to happen with the Donwell servants, who are all, I have often observed, extremely awkward and remiss.†   (source)
  • So jealous was he of her being respected, that, on this very journey down from the Great Saint Bernard, he took sudden and violent umbrage at the footman's being remiss to hold her stirrup, though standing near when she dismounted; and unspeakably astonished the whole retinue by charging at him on a hard-headed mule, riding him into a corner, and threatening to trample him to death.†   (source)
  • But of what class the remiss Britons were composed, and where the unlucky creatures hid themselves, and why they hid themselves, and how it constantly happened that they neglected their interests, when so many other Britons were quite at a loss to account for their not looking after those interests, was not, either upon the shore of the yellow Tiber or the shore of the black Thames, made apparent to men.†   (source)
  • After chatting some time on such matters as naturally arose from the objects around them, he suddenly addressed her with—"I have hitherto been very remiss, madam, in the proper attentions of a partner here; I have not yet asked you how long you have been in Bath; whether you were ever here before; whether you have been at the Upper Rooms, the theatre, and the concert; and how you like the place altogether.†   (source)
  • …nor treasures to offer her, for mine are given to Dulcinea, and the treasures of knights-errant are like those of the fairies,' illusory and deceptive; all I can give her is the place in my memory I keep for her, without prejudice, however, to that which I hold devoted to Dulcinea, whom thou art wronging by thy remissness in whipping thyself and scourging that flesh—would that I saw it eaten by wolves—which would rather keep itself for the worms than for the relief of that poor lady."†   (source)
  • "Indeed, dear Harriet," answered Sophia, "your story is an apology for any neglect; but, indeed, I feel that I have been guilty of a remissness, without so good an excuse.†   (source)
  • The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept: Those many had not dared to do that evil If the first that did the edict infringe Had answer'd for his deed: now 'tis awake; Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet, Looks in a glass that shows what future evils,— Either now, or by remissness new conceiv'd, And so in progress to be hatch'd and born,— Are now to have no successive degrees, But, where they live, to end.†   (source)
  • I've been remiss.†   (source)
  • I told you: Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted putting-on; methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before.†   (source)
  • Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home: We'll put on those shall praise your excellence And set a double varnish on the fame The Frenchman gave you; bring you in fine together And wager on your heads: he, being remiss, Most generous, and free from all contriving, Will not peruse the foils; so that with ease, Or with a little shuffling, you may choose A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice, Requite him for your father.†   (source)
  • Deliverer from new Lords, leader to free Enjoyment of our right as Gods; yet hard For Gods, and too unequal work we find, Against unequal arms to fight in pain, Against unpained, impassive; from which evil Ruin must needs ensue; for what avails Valour or strength, though matchless, quelled with pain Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands Of mightiest?†   (source)
  • The States near the seat of war, influenced by motives of self-preservation, made efforts to furnish their quotas, which even exceeded their abilities; while those at a distance from danger were, for the most part, as remiss as the others were diligent, in their exertions.†   (source)
  • You will easily believe, sir, that such a life as I am now describing must be incompatible with my further progress in learning; and that in proportion as I addicted myself more and more to loose pleasure, I must grow more and more remiss in application to my studies.†   (source)
  • Which must be mutual, in proportion due Given and received; but, in disparity The one intense, the other still remiss, Cannot well suit with either, but soon prove Tedious alike: Of fellowship I speak Such as I seek, fit to participate All rational delight: wherein the brute Cannot be human consort: They rejoice Each with their kind, lion with lioness; So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined: Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl So well converse, nor with the ox the ape;…†   (source)
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