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  • Lawton countered that Seiler had defended Williams "in a negligent, incompetent and unethical manner."†   (source)
  • She was somehow negligent.†   (source)
  • His right hand lay negligently upon the arm of his chair; with a jolt, Harry saw that he was wearing Marvolo's gold-and-black ring; he had already killed his father.†   (source)
  • A serious accident might have occurred—due to your negligence.†   (source)
  • "Oh, a shred, surely," Littlefinger replied negligently.†   (source)
  • DRACO: Then it's a negligence I too should face.†   (source)
  • And now I'm paying for my negligence.†   (source)
  • He was now determined to perform his duties firmly and without negligence.†   (source)
  • No smoke yet showed above the rooftops, so, reassured, all the faces turned back to Capricorn, who was saying something about deceit and falsehood, discipline and negligence, but Elinor only half heard him.†   (source)
  • After all, he'd been accused of awful crimes—negligence, incompetence, abuse of power, and so forth; some people considered him lucky to have escaped prison.†   (source)
  • And Jane Hamilton, in A Map of the World (1994), has her main character allow a child to drown through negligence, then she has to deal with the consequences throughout the remainder of the novel.†   (source)
  • Slouching negligently she said, as though there had been no interruption, "What kind of place you think this is?"†   (source)
  • On Tuesday, July 18, the jury charged him, Fire Marshal Murphy, and two Hercules officers with criminal negligence and referred the charges to a grand jury.†   (source)
  • The Urals, Balkans, Pyrénées—whole mountain ranges vanished under my negligence.†   (source)
  • The worst she could be accused of is negligence.†   (source)
  • The sorter tossed the envelope with a negligent flick of the wrist towards the surface mailbag for Moscow on the far side of his work table.†   (source)
  • Aro raised a hand negligently without looking at them.†   (source)
  • She had remained silent in full awareness of the worth of her position as a charity employee, but in the memorandum she noted that she had said nothing not because of negligence but out of respect for the hierarchies in the section.†   (source)
  • We have been negligent.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the overwhelming number of people who suffer an injury due to the negligence of a doctor never file a malpractice suit at all.†   (source)
  • Finally, the Officials decided that my parents must have lost the tablets when they were swimming earlier in the week and that they'd been negligent not to notice it sooner.†   (source)
  • It is quite possible, then, that my employer fully expects me to respond to his bantering in a like manner, and considers my failure to do so a form of negligence.†   (source)
  • Only a sensible person would be fool enough to think the case might boil down to whether the girls were neg-ligent in riding on the road that morning and whether the truck driver was negligent in hitting them.†   (source)
  • That's willful negligence.†   (source)
  • At the moment, the maximum OSHA fine for a death caused by willful employer negligence is $70,000.†   (source)
  • Of course he probably never suspected his own friend would make such a move behind his back, and yet it still seemed negligent of him, for he knew Gus's ways.†   (source)
  • Marie was shocked by her negligence.†   (source)
  • Pap agreed negligently; he had no liking for early rising.†   (source)
  • But for all his raw courage in the heat and tumult of war, Billy Howe could be, in the intervals between actions, slow-moving, procrastinating, negligent in preparing for action, interested more in his own creature comforts and pleasures.†   (source)
  • I was an E-felony, criminally negligent homicide, reduced from a charge of manslaughter in the second degree, and we played game after game of half-court, going all-out and taking deep and healthy breaths and having a tussle or two.†   (source)
  • I hadn't realized that the charges might have included negligent homicide, or even manslaughter.†   (source)
  • A year later (1957) he filed suit, claiming negligence on the part of the church.†   (source)
  • So was negligence on Paul's part; the surgery had gone off without a hitch, and a close examination by the coroner had found nothing out of the ordinary with the procedure or anything that might have been even tangentially responsible for her death.†   (source)
  • I had been negligent of the sheep, and some of them had moved off on their own, searching for the better grass I should have shepherded them to long since.†   (source)
  • The cook's legs kicked out once in a wide Y; the crowd made a satisfied whistling noise; the Guards of the Watch dropped their military pose and began to gather things up negligently.†   (source)
  • With equal negligence, she tossed down her shoes.†   (source)
  • An agent negligent on a camera system.†   (source)
  • Because she wanted to press her hands to her throbbing head, she tucked them negligently into her pockets.†   (source)
  • to beget further violence; political opportunism that took advantage of a largely uneducated population, imbued, some have said, with the habit of obedience; overpopulation, environmental degradation, and economic distress that led to competition for dwindling resources; the harmful and appalling role played by France and the criminally negligent response of the United Nations, the United States, and other Western powers, both to warnings of genocide and to the mass slaughter itself.†   (source)
  • The rocks rolled negligently into ankles, and now and then a small round rock would glance off its flatter cousins and take to the air in a series of leaps that successfully aspired to the momentum of a military projectile.†   (source)
  • I do feel, however, that our stockholders will be justified in expecting that those who bore the major responsibility for this venture should now bear the consequences of their negligence.†   (source)
  • But at the same time it was as though he was accusing them of some sort of negligence.†   (source)
  • There are always untenable events, freak happenings like someone recognizing you, or at worst, the trouble results from a foolish and negligent spy, like my time with Luzan.†   (source)
  • President Abraham Lincoln's only bodyguard, a man with a career-long history of inappropriate and negligent behavior, has left his post for the last time.†   (source)
  • Lou chose not to hear the man whose negligent actions had just shattered her family.†   (source)
  • After I left the nursing home, I spent the next hour driving to Mountain City to stand next to a client who was entering a guilty plea to a reduced charge of negligent homicide in what had originally been a second-degree murder case.†   (source)
  • Often, he would yell at the cadet, berate him for negligence or stupidity, offer to pay his tuition to Clemson, burn him for unshined shoes, insult him in front of the secretaries in the commandant's office; but always, always, he would help him in any way he could.†   (source)
  • In my statement, later, I said that he had seemed highly agitated when he had come to get me, that he told me Paul had stopped breathing, that I had returned with him to the dispensary, determined that Paul was indeed dead, said so, and asked him for the details; that as we were talking he seemed to get the impression that I thought he had been negligent and somehow contributed to the death; that he had grown further agitated and finally attacked me; that we had fought and he had fallen into the water.†   (source)
  • But none of these at all diminished a kind of wonderfully negligent sexuality having to do at that moment, at least, with the casual but forthright way her pelvis moved and with her truly sumptuous rear end.†   (source)
  • Negligent.†   (source)
  • In a corner of the carriage sat a pretty woman negligently leaning against the cushions.†   (source)
  • BERENGER is unshaven and hatless, with unkempt hair and creased clothes; everything about him indicates negligence.†   (source)
  • As he turned his head a little to one side and negligently stirred the dirt with his yellow finger, she saw, with a sort of helpless suspicion and hunger, a soft, rather deprecating smile on his face; he was lost in some impossible dream of his own while he was transplanting the little shoots.†   (source)
  • In the front room stood Marston, his hands in his pockets, in a pose that seemed negligently calm.†   (source)
  • The jury found her criminally negligent in the fulfillment of her responsibilities.
  • Social Services said the parents were negligent and took custody of the children.
  • I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.   (source)
  • I sat on the bunk waiting for permission to leave the ship at Omaugh Palace, my pack at my feet, Seivarden leaning negligently against the wall across from me, bored.†   (source)
    negligently = with insufficient care or attention
  • PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: Your solidarity is admirable, but it doesn't make your negligence negligible.†   (source)
  • I feel just horrible, leaving you to cook for yourself—it's practically criminal negligence.†   (source)
  • To allow us to pass unchallenged would have been negligent on your part.†   (source)
  • Who but a negligent father allows his children to grow up unguided by sometime chastisements?†   (source)
  • It came to me then that he must have arrived here under instruction to he negligent.†   (source)
  • Because out of our negligence and her loneliness came much rage.†   (source)
  • She began to listen too, her face sweet and absorbed as she negligently stroked his shoulder.†   (source)
  • She was deceiving herself within, trying to train her for domestic happiness because she was convinced that once his passion was satisfied them would not be a man on the face of the earth capable of tolerating even for a day a negligence that was beyond all understanding.†   (source)
  • He feels your neglect of a potentially lethal situation is more than negligence—that it borders on conspiracy to cause the death or serious injury of one of the students here.†   (source)
  • A short time later they sent Father Augusto Angel, a crusader of the new breed, intransigent, audacious, daring, who personally rang the bells several times a day so that the peoples spirits would not get drowsy, and who went from house to house waking up the sleepers to go to mass but before a year was out he too was conquered by the negligence that one breathed in with the air, by the hot dust that made everything old and clogged up, and by the drowsiness caused by lunchtime meatballs in the unbearable heat of siesta time.†   (source)
  • We've had people come in saying they want to sue some specialist, and we'll say, 'We don't think that doctor was negligent.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had become negligent, and he was so distracted that he confused the flags that announced the arrival of the mail, and one Wednesday he hoisted the German flag when the ship was from the Leyland Company and carried the mail from Liverpool, and on another day he flew the flag of the United States when the ship was from the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique and carried the mail from Saint-Nazaire.†   (source)
  • Lysa waved a hand negligently.†   (source)
  • So do not accuse me of negligence, Blodhgarm, son of Ildrid, unless you wish to test yourself against the last of the high Old Ones.†   (source)
  • I do not wish a Senator to dress like a beau, but I want him to conform so far as to the fashion as not to incur the character of singular-ity, nor give occasion to the world to ask what kind of mother he had or to charge upon a wife negligence and inattention when she is guiltless.†   (source)
  • The king was shaded beneath a crimson canopy, one leg thrown negligently over the carved wooden arm of his chair.†   (source)
  • She moved her fingers slightly, almost negligently, the gesture of someone twitching a curtain aside.†   (source)
  • The new penalties should include greatly increased OSHA fines, mandatory plant closures, and criminal charges for negligence.†   (source)
  • But she didn't want to lose the arrogant angle of the driver's arm, or the negligent way her hair streamed back.†   (source)
  • Better let me have the prisoner, before anything happens to him-if you don't want me to report you for negligence, as well as insubordination.†   (source)
  • The lover-like pretensions of Shade Buckheath, a man dangerous, remorseless, as careless of the rights of others as any tiger in the jungle, she regarded with negligent composure.†   (source)
  • I fear, however, that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls, I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out, I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin.†   (source)
  • Under American law, an accuser must prove that the allegations at the heart of a libel case are not only false and defamatory, but also have been recklessly, negligently, or deliberately spread.†   (source)
  • Of course, he's nothing but a rotten playboy-still, a fortune of that size is a responsibility, there's a limit to the negligence a man can permit himself!†   (source)
  • Eight years earlier, Henry Wolf had been overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes while cleaning the very same tank; Gary Sanders had tried to rescue him; both men died; and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) later fined National Beef for its negligence.†   (source)
  • The only excuse I can offer for our maintenance department is that the shortage of fuel was not due to their negligence, it was-oh, I realize that you would not know about it and such matters should not take up your invaluable attention-but, you see, the oil shortage last winter was a nation-wide crisis.†   (source)
  • She could only understand an odd word here or there, but she disliked the man's attitude and tone; he seemed, from his manner, to be telling them to accept an unalterable evil fate, not scolding them, as she would have liked to do, for their negligence and laziness.†   (source)
  • What negligence!†   (source)
  • Hadn't her last note spelled it out, so plainly that an innocent six-year-old could have divined its meaning, and hadn't I been negligent, feloniously so, in failing to hurry after her immediately rather than taking that brainless bus ride across the Potomac?†   (source)
  • The landscape and the living figures of that summer, as in some umber-smeared snapshot found in the brittle black pages of an old album, had become more dusty and indistinct as time for me unspooled with negligent haste into my own middle age, yet that summer's agony still cried out for explanation.†   (source)
  • But I copped out (a phrase not then in use, but perfectly descriptive of my negligence, or, to be more exact, my abandonment).†   (source)
  • A floodlight enveloped all in its acetylene glare, there was one of those grim barricades with its cardboard sign—Do Not Cross—and everywhere stood clots of thuggish policemen chewing gum and negligently swatting their thick behinds.†   (source)
  • Good-humored fellows they looked, shrugging their colored cloaks negligently over naked shoulders.†   (source)
  • I have been very negligent about entertaining lately.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes," he said, waving his hand negligently.†   (source)
  • A certain intermittent contempt for acting made her negligent.†   (source)
  • He replied negligently, therefore, "Tea?†   (source)
  • I couldn't help him buzzing," Scarlett shrugged negligently.†   (source)
  • There was no one there so handsome, thought Scarlett, as she marked how graceful was his negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and mustache.†   (source)
  • I have compared hundreds of manuscripts, I have corrected the errors that the negligence of the copyists has introduced, I have guessed the plan of this chaos, I have re-established—I believe I have re-established—the primordial organization, I have translated the entire work: it is clear to me that not once does he employ the word 'time.'†   (source)
  • Toohey stood looking at him; Toohey's hands had slipped negligently into his trouser pockets, making his jacket flare out over his thin hips; he seemed to teeter faintly on his small feet; his eyes were attentive in enigmatic appraisal.†   (source)
  • She became increasingly negligent in her dress and like all lonely people she talked to herself audibly.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung answered negligently as one speaks to a man who is scarcely an equal, "Good harvests—good harvests—" and he stepped with assurance inside the gate.†   (source)
  • Now, as a proof of my susceptibility to atmosphere, here, as I come into my room, and turn on the light, and see the sheet of paper, the table, my gown lying negligently over the back of the chair, I feel that I am that dashing yet reflective man, that bold and deleterious figure, who, lightly throwing off his cloak, seizes his pen and at once flings off the following letter to the girl with whom he is passionately in love.†   (source)
  • Come along, Robin Hood, or whoever you are—you may think I don't know, but I do— stop leaning on your bow with that look of negligent woodcraft Putt yourself together, man, and get that muscle-bound sergeant to help you carry her.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, Rose she said, like that again, and I stopped in running's midstride again though my body, blind unsentient barrow of deluded clay and breath, still advanced And bow I saw that what she held in that lax and negligent hand was the photograph, the picture of herself in its metal case which she had given him, held casual and forgotten against her flank as any interrupted pastime book.†   (source)
  • Now as he walked he was cursing himself in all the mixed terror and rage of any actual young father for what he now believed to have been crass and criminal negligence.†   (source)
  • "I hope Monsieur will not think that there has been any negligence on my part," he said anxiously, his eyes going from Poirot to M. Bouc.†   (source)
  • He was paler, thinner, pouchy under the eyes, drooping in the corners of his mouth and he showed the scars of a boil on the side of his chin; his voice seemed flatter and his movements alternately listless and jumpy; he looked down-at-heel, too, with clothes and hair, which formerly had been happily negligent, now unkempt; worst of all, there was a wariness in his eye which I had surprised there at Easter, and which now seemed habitual to him.†   (source)
  • Rhett Butler lounged in the shadows, his long legs in their elegant boots crossed negligently, his dark face an unreadable blank.†   (source)
  • There were more shouts of approval, and Rhett Butler who had been lounging negligently against the counter at Scarlett's side whispered: "Pompous goat, isn't he?"†   (source)
  • On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at the sunlight through tall mint-garnished glasses as they laughed and talked, their long legs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle muscles, crossed negligently.†   (source)
  • A throat was cleared; a calm voice encouraged negligently, 'Well.'†   (source)
  • He opened it negligently, regarded it without emotion, and, in complete silence, handed it to me.†   (source)
  • There had been some negligence, some carelessness, you see, when father was ill.†   (source)
  • "Your sister and I have always hit it off," he said negligently.†   (source)
  • Her heavy arm lay negligently on the table.†   (source)
  • You don't seem to be pining for your—negligent husband.†   (source)
  • The husband never becomes negligent, selfish, brutal—oh never!†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry I have been negligent about the Brys—" she began.†   (source)
  • "I believe so," said Mr. Wilcox negligently.†   (source)
  • Certainly; and if he is lazy or negligent, I will write his excuses myself.†   (source)
  • Around his throat he had negligently fastened a stock of black silk.†   (source)
  • Aramis, anxious and negligently dressed, said nothing.†   (source)
  • look about you now, and make up for your negligence,' said Steerforth.†   (source)
  • This key was furnished with a small iron point,—a negligence on the part of the locksmith.†   (source)
  • Home-life and its trustful love permitted the negligent attire in which she appeared.†   (source)
  • Sure to be a fatal accident, with a reprimand from the coroner's jury for my negligence.†   (source)
  • So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and so my conscience was at ease.†   (source)
  • They were dressed to correspond, though in a most untidy and negligent way.†   (source)
  • Then he put three francs on the corner of the table, bowed negligently, and went out.†   (source)
  • So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears!†   (source)
  • "Faults or crimes," responded Monte Cristo with a negligent air.†   (source)
  • "Is he not your friend?" replied the baron, negligently.†   (source)
  • On the bed, in a negligent attitude, sat Pierrat Torterue, the official torturer.†   (source)
  • "True," says the negligent lounger; "picking cotton isn't hard work."†   (source)
  • St. Clare had often thought the same thing himself; but he answered, negligently.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no," returned Monte Cristo negligently; "since I have this, I will keep it."†   (source)
  • With his left hand, he negligently folded back his shirt around his right arm, to the very armpit.†   (source)
  • Kitty had been accused of negligence and severely scolded.†   (source)
  • "Shall I assist you in repairing your negligence?" asked Franz.†   (source)
  • "Eh," he said, negligently, "this money is not mine.†   (source)
  • An error I readily forgive, but wilful negligence or forgetfulness, never.†   (source)
  • Not having repeated them, through negligence, I should be fined.†   (source)
  • It was a relief to her tongue to find from the faces of her parents that they already knew of their loss, though this did not lessen the self-reproach which she continued to heap upon herself for her negligence.†   (source)
  • They were of the opinion that it was very negligent in fulfilling its duties as an Alpine winter and had failed to provide the meteorological medicine for which these regions were famous, in the quantities promised by the brochure, familiar to long-termers, and envisioned by newcomers.†   (source)
  • Babbitt had been negligent about church-going lately, but he went to the service, hopeful that Dr. Drew really did have the information as to what the divine powers thought about strikes.†   (source)
  • "What does our old gentleman of the car think?" she asked, and her negligent tone was exactly what he desired.†   (source)
  • She began to set the toilet-stand to rights, grumbling at the negligence of the quadroon, who was in the adjoining room putting the children to bed.†   (source)
  • Here, for instance," I continued, reaching over the back of my seat negligently and flinging the door open, "is my bathroom."†   (source)
  • It had been negligent of the bank to let them waste their time here in the waiting room, but none of them wanted to draw attention to this.†   (source)
  • Kislorodoff told me all this with a sort of exaggerated devil-may-care negligence, and as though he did me great honour by talking to me so, because it showed that he considered me the same sort of exalted Nihilistic being as himself, to whom death was a matter of no consequence whatever, either way.†   (source)
  • She smiled negligently.†   (source)
  • a cossack, and by his side a diminutive groom, like Toby, "the late Beaudenord's tiger," I saw—or rather I felt its outlines engraved upon my heart by a clean and killing stab—a matchless victoria, built rather high, and hinting, through the extreme modernity of its appointments, at the forms of an earlier day, deep down in which lay negligently back Mme. Swann, her hair, now quite pale with one grey lock, girt with a narrow band of flowers, usually violets, from which floated down long veils, a lilac parasol in her hand, on her lips an ambiguous smile in which I read only the benign condescension of Majesty, though it was pre-eminently the enticing smile of the courtesan, which sh†   (source)
  • It was two stories high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower story and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence.†   (source)
  • The man who loses sight of the tall stranger, after he is once seen, will pay for his negligence with his life; but one man is to ride straight back here and report to me.†   (source)
  • He made no moral or emotional appeal, and it was only by degrees that the studied negligence of his manner made itself felt, and lashed part of the audience to fury.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the fact that the correspondence had been allowed to fall into strange hands would convict Selden of negligence in a matter where the world holds it least pardonable; and there were graver risks to consider where a man of Dorset's ticklish balance was concerned.†   (source)
  • She didn't indeed attempt to describe it, but I could tell from her voice when she said, almost negligently, "I used to lie awake whole nights.†   (source)
  • Clara glanced round negligently.†   (source)
  • It was not so bad there now, he remarked negligently, and, he went on drawling, "There's some sort of white vagabond has got in there, I hear....Eh?†   (source)
  • He swung negligently.†   (source)
  • Moreover, a perpetual investigation would be necessary to convict the officer of negligence or lukewarmness; and the Court of Sessions sits but twice a year and then only judges such offences as are brought before its notice.†   (source)
  • She recalled to him as remembrances her troubles and her sacrifices, and, comparing these with Emma's negligence, came to the conclusion that it was not reasonable to adore her so exclusively.†   (source)
  • Mr. James Harthouse, happening to catch Tom's eye, remarked that he drank nothing, and filled his glass with his own negligent hand.†   (source)
  • Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to pieces.†   (source)
  • Entering the garret through the skylight, he went down the ladder, knowing that the door at the bottom of it was sometimes, through the negligence of the servants, left unlocked.†   (source)
  • It was not a reckless manner, the manner in which he said these words aloud under the fast-sailing clouds, nor was it more expressive of negligence than defiance.†   (source)
  • But there he sat; and in his old seat on the opposite side of the room reclined Sir Mulberry Hawk, with his legs upon the cushion, and his handkerchief thrown negligently over his knees: finishing his magnum of claret with the utmost coolness and indifference.†   (source)
  • Instead of a reprimand for their previous negligence, the case seemed rather to require an eulogium on their praiseworthy caution after the mischief had happened; a grateful recognition of the promptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy.†   (source)
  • To this, for some time, he made no rejoinder; he continued to give his chief attention to his work, which was of a sort that would brook no negligence.†   (source)
  • A beautiful dress of brocade, a little the worse from negligent treatment, followed, and this time open exclamations of delight escaped the lips of Judith.†   (source)
  • At the upper end of the table, Mr. Noah Claypole lolled negligently in an easy-chair, with his legs thrown over one of the arms: an open clasp-knife in one hand, and a mass of buttered bread in the other.†   (source)
  • Probity in thought and deed being the distinguishing quality of this extraordinary man's mind, while he felt that a sort of disgrace ought to attach to his idleness on the occasion mentioned, the last thought that could occur would be to attempt to palliate or deny his negligence.†   (source)
  • "Jim, see to the trunks," said the gentleman, negligently; then addressing himself to Mr. Wilson, he added—"I should like to have a few moments' conversation with you on business, in my room, if you please."†   (source)
  • I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life — my genius for good or evil — waited there in humble guise.†   (source)
  • Madame Kukshin shed her questions one after another with affected negligence, not waiting for an answer; spoilt children talk so to their nurses.†   (source)
  • I have no need to observe that I do not wilfully or negligently mislead my readers and that before I wrote that description I took pains to investigate the subject.†   (source)
  • His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.†   (source)
  • She danced, she turned, she whirled rapidly about on an old Persian rug, spread negligently under her feet; and each time that her radiant face passed before you, as she whirled, her great black eyes darted a flash of lightning at you.†   (source)
  • Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.†   (source)
  • He took it up, ashamed rather of his negligence regarding it, and prepared himself for a disagreeable hour's communing with that crabbed-handed absent relative....It may have been an hour after the Major's departure from the Colonel's house—Sir Michael was sleeping the sleep of the just; Glorvina had arranged her black ringlets in the innumerable little bits of paper, in which it was her habi†   (source)
  • Your impatient loquacious man has never any notion of keeping his pipe alight by gentle measured puffs; he is always letting it go nearly out, and then punishing it for that negligence.†   (source)
  • They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages; the young master being entirely negligent how they behaved, and what they did, so they kept clear of him.†   (source)
  • She was leaning back, sipping a cup of tea that she held in her hand, and the owner of the male voice was Boldwood, who had apparently just brought the cup to her, Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas that it was pressed to the shape of her shoulder, and she was, in fact, as good as in Troy's arms; and he was obliged to keep his breast carefully backward that she might not feel its warmth through the cloth as he gazed in.†   (source)
  • The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease.†   (source)
  • Availing himself of their negligence, by a sudden exertion of strength and activity, Gurth shook himself free of their hold, and might have escaped, could he have resolved to leave his master's property behind him.†   (source)
  • You reproach me with your creation, come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.†   (source)
  • That which had been negligently trodden under foot by those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.†   (source)
  • Carton's negligent recklessness of manner came powerfully in aid of his quickness and skill, in such a business as he had in his secret mind, and with such a man as he had to do with.†   (source)
  • He felt himself riding over the hills in the breezy autumn days, looking after favourite plans of drainage and enclosure; then admired on sombre mornings as the best rider on the best horse in the hunt; spoken well of on market-days as a first-rate landlord; by and by making speeches at election dinners, and showing a wonderful knowledge of agriculture; the patron of new ploughs and drills, the severe upbraider of negligent landowners, and withal a jolly fellow that everybody must like—happy faces greeting him everywhere on his own estate, and the neighbouring families on the best terms with him.†   (source)
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