Adjective : insensate stone. From Dictionary.com.
He, in turn, leaped insensately, making the drumhead dance madly. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
The Toughs were aggressive, and insensately brutal, and a meeting with them could only mean trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
The cable news environment has become something of a "wall" -- insensately scrolling context-less "factoids" into the void. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Linkins: Bradbury Adds New Heat to Fahrenheit Discussion] Reference
But it was not until the monstrosities had been gruesomely carved and torn apart, literally to bits, that they ceased their insensately voracious attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
So shall your thorns be known only to each other in such fragrant clustering, and never known at all to Men unless they insensately persist in giving you their hands. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870] Reference
Though the heart of woman should never be trusted, he believed in a woman all the more insensately, because he supposed her faithful to himself and treacherous to her son. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Since there were almost a hundred of the Delgonians, since they were insensately vicious fighters when cornered, and since their physical make-up was very similar to the Velantians 'own, many of Worsel's troopers died. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
Oh! doesn't it all seem too insensately brutal?. From Wordnik.com. [Mufti] Reference
All nature seemed glad -- cruelly, mockingly, insensately glad -- lightsome, jubilant. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
Dr. Schlesien replied with an Atlas shrug under fleabite to the insensately infantile interrogation. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Far from being satisfied with words and tone, which were correctness itself, Io was insensately exasperated. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
And our world of seats oddly gained, quaintly occupied, maliciously beset, insensately envied, needs the discourse. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Rendering back to it as a sacred duty every atom that the Earth supplies to them (not insensately sending it in sewers to the sea). From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference
Her bitter marriage, joyless in all its chapters, indefensible where the man was right as well as where insensately wrong, had been imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Forty odd years ago I myself, on first arriving in London, lodged at the Golden Cross, because it was there that David Copperfield stopped; and I was insensately pleased the other day that there was still a hotel of that name at the old stand. From Wordnik.com. [London Films] Reference
Steel-braced, clumsy helmets touching, the two Terrestrials stared spell-bound into the plate; watching while the insensately vicious intelligences within the sphere brought its every force to bear upon another and larger sphere which was now so close as to be plainly visible. From Wordnik.com. [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference
There were four practically simultaneous detonations -- silent, but terrific explosions as the pent-up internal energy of solid pentavalent nitrogen was instantaneously released -- and the four insensately murderous spheres disappeared into jagged fragments of wreckage, flying wildly away from the centers of explosion. From Wordnik.com. [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference
On the muddy verge of a shallow little pool the man lay prone and still, as still as those poor dead whose broken bodies rested all about him, where they had fallen, months or days, hours or weeks ago, in those grim contests which the quick were wont insensately to wage for a few charnel yards of that debatable ground. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
The dancers’ ranks were thinned; but those who remained, gyrated as insensately as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
A mountainside, seemed to be toppling, insensately bent upon his annihilation; even so his momentum, decreasing with frightful swiftness, seemed possessed of demoniac desire to frustrate him. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
About us insensately bellows. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891] Reference
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