O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! Thou hast one more chance! Stive for immortal glory!". From LearnThat.org. [Harriet Beech Stowe (1811 - 1896) American writer, philanthropist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin]
Insentient (or insensate) stone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : insensate stone. From Dictionary.com.
The very sight of Tony, bringing with it, as it did, a quickened rush of torturing remembrance, filled him with a kind of insensate fury. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
It is so gratuitous, so insensate, so unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
We are witnessing a perfect carnival of insensate materialism. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
They goad and afflict a heedless man or one that is insensate. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
He put his mouth close to the insensate wood and called her name. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
In 1679 we find an insensate prebendary securing an order from the. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
Bands of musicians and courtezans served to amuse that insensate crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
'Can you, oh, insensate crowd!' he would cry, 'Can you sit in silence?'. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
Even he stands today at the head of battle clad in mail and insensate with wrath. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Evil is cruel, since it is a true reflection of the uncaring and insensate universe. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
But this was our president — calm, detached, even-keeled to the point of insensate. From Wordnik.com. [The Enraged vs. the Exhausted] Reference
I can assure you there is none of that insensate hatred that one hears about out here. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Do you remember the cry of Bulgaria when she was torn by the most insensate tyranny that. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
The eyes held an expression of sleepy content, if an insensate bit of china could do such. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The truth is, no one really believes the insensate teaching of the Churches on punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
It was only the insensate obtuseness of the gull which prevented Ugolino dying of laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
I can assure you that there is none of that insensate hatred that one hears about, out here. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
The latter, blind with his insensate fury, plunged ahead, unable to stop himself if he would. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
He realized that since the night of Raoul's arrival he had been seething with insensate jealousy. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Of this insensate hatred against us in the hearts of the German people -- and all because we have. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914] Reference
These qualifying terms are applied to the known laws and forces of nature, not to insensate matter. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
This attitude of Bulgaria shows, the Novoye Vremya thinks, "how thick-headed and insensate its people are.". From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Senseless, insensate, formless, erratic, it only disgusted him with its sheer and unprofitable lawlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
Does not the study of Nature, at each step, belie this insensate waste, of which no human being would be guilty?. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
Whence, for instance, arose the horrors of the mediaeval inquisition, the insensate tortures inflicted upon men like. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
And the thought that another could take what he might not had engendered an insensate jealousy that was beyond reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
There was the girl's figure, the leaning willow, the man, -- content, insensate, sprawling upon the bank, -- but the Kappa!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
It seems to me that a nation which tolerates such insensate methods and outrageous risks must shortly perish from sheer lunacy. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
There we were with the mighty forces of the insensate world around, so pitiless, so silently cruel, it seemed to my city-bred soul. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
She knew that they do rightly and for themselves well who in Love's strength brush aside all worldly barriers and insensate prejudice. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
She was, as usual after such an orgie, rather a devil than a human being, drunk with an insensate frenzy, delirious with inhuman longings. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
He was not quite sure whether he were a mere insensate brute or no, but he packed, and took the homeward train without a word of farewell. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
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