Adjective : Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog. From Dictionary.com.
"Stockings," another heedlessly ventured to answer. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
Betty tried to stop her, but Grace hurried on heedlessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
"Why, what did you suppose it was?" she heedlessly asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
In his mad haste, he had rushed heedlessly upon destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Then Thornly came to the curtain and flung it heedlessly back. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Like a child playing with fire Cynthia heedlessly spoke these words. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Marian had so heedlessly set out into the great world, on that bright. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
All this he had sacrificed and thrown away, heedlessly, madly, brutally. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
The king should never act heedlessly in the matter of watching his friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Dol uttered a mad "Whoop-ee!" and heedlessly dashed off a few steps in pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
Acting heedlessly I commanded the high-souled Chirakarin (to slay that wife of mine). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Naples nothing so dark and despairing, as this heathen world we pass by so heedlessly. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
"That's the name of your lady Secunda," she said, "so don't use it quite so heedlessly!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
I don't say that we should heedlessly or promiscuously involve ourselves in such conflicts. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Back On Fatalism] Reference
The pleading of friends and the threats of enemies will alike fall heedlessly upon his ears. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
I have an impression of a procession of innocent victims rushing heedlessly upon destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
'Tis the music of her own heart -- the sound of her sighs, and she plays on softly, heedlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
Ports and air-scuttles there, are more apt to be imperfectly masked or thrown open heedlessly by servants. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
Cynthia's son, being a man, went up heedlessly, even a little noisily, for attics were to him a new thing. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
"Youth," answered the other, "I have watched thee and wish thee well! rush not heedlessly to certain death!". From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
The border guards smile effusively at the foreigners who have come to spend money heedlessly on their shores. From Wordnik.com. [Mickey’s Management Mojo] Reference
As thou hast heedlessly slain this my cow, even so wilt thy foe cut off thy head while thou shalt be heedless! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
In that moment of quiet Garry lifted a flask to his lips and finding it empty let it slip heedlessly to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
Thence they proceeded heedlessly against Camarina and came into a region where an ambuscade had already been set. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
She stumbled heedlessly up the steps, leaving a trail of mud behind her, and almost breaking her neck in the bargain. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
The careless, unthinking promenaders suddenly grew grave, then violently agitated and finally raving, heedlessly mad. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
So heedlessly, however, had he ransacked the drawers, that, if any such were there, they must have escaped his notice. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
In one corner was a violin stand, a bow tossed heedlessly across it; and all about were boxes, half packed and disordered. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
She heedlessly oversteps the magic ring traced by Lakshmana, when the Rakshasa seizes her by the hand stretched in charity. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
By heedlessly putting the presidency "" in play, '' each may have edged the United States closer to a parliamentary system. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallout] Reference
Grant that I may no longer use the time that thou gavest me to learn in, heedlessly, but to give it my best thought and care. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
Verily it is a great gate on the road to ruin, and thousands pass heedlessly through its decorated walks, quickly reaching the dark end. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
It was sweet to be chaffed, to be heedlessly young once more, to take refuge from all disconcerting thoughts -- from a new embarrassment -- with. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
In the small hours of the morning our hutch collapsed again, and with the blanket on my side supported mainly on my nose, I heedlessly slumbered on. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
So many of the arguments have suggested that modern women are either licentious or blind, that they end pregnancies heedlessly or don't know what they're doing. From Wordnik.com. [NOW AVAILABLE: MIDDLE GROUND] Reference
William Weld of Massachusetts happily and heedlessly told any number of the thousand or so journalists in attendance that he was going to be named ambassador to Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [A Bare-Knuckled Brawl] Reference
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