Commend me to what you call the insensibility of the. From Wordnik.com. [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference
He has reproached me for what he terms my insensibility to his perfections, and says. From Wordnik.com. [Turns of Fortune And Other Tales] Reference
For to be without grief having health, that they call insensibility, and not pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Book. Of their journeying or travelling abroad, with divers other matters cunningly reasoned, and wittily discussed] Reference
"I have evidently," he thought, "not yet acquired that felicitous insensibility which is needful for successful public speaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning Spear] Reference
Lipothymy, a lower degree of weakness, is characterized by a general depravity of motion and speech, and a failure of the sense organs termed "insensibility" (James. From Wordnik.com. [Ildiko Csengei] Reference
"Man only knows man's insensibility to a new gown.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
To a common whip or switch his hide presents an absolute insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
She strove to rise, but fell back and again relapsed into insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
There can be no doubt that a merciful insensibility came soon to their relief. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
I remained in a state of utter prostration and apparent insensibility until morning. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The patient usually retains consciousness, but rarely there is complete insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Mrs. Belmont gave one loud and piercing scream, and then sank into a state of insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
To have talked or looked another way would then have been thought insensibility or ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Others, not so declamatory, persist, however, in confounding riches with egoism and insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The deluge was mercifully short, but at the end Luther Hansen was almost beaten into insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
This insensibility to facts and blindness to the tendency of events, they call wisdom and moderation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
She hastened to do his bidding, but before she returned he had fallen into insensibility and apparent death. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
The man's stolid calm, which had appeared a proof of innocence, now made him seem a monster of insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Instead of having the enthusiasm of evil we had only the negation of the good; instead of despair, insensibility. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The weakest frame sinks into an insensibility profound as death, in which he has visions of heaven and the angels. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
To all these advances my heart remained cold, and my insensibility cost me nothing; for I neither loved nor wished to. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
One, an insensibility to all common stimulants, however violently applied; the other, an inward flow of ideas, a dream or vision. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
We poured water over him, we chafed his hands, we called him by every tender name, but his insensibility remained deep and profound. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Their patient endurance of accumulated hardships did not arise from a slavish servility or from insensibility to their rights and comforts. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Having some knowledge of the fact that, by inhaling the vapor of ether, a state of insensibility could be produced, he applied to Dr. Charles. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Apathia: the Stoic ideal was calmness in all circumstance an insensibility to pain, and absence of all exaltation at, pleasure or good fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Just as Signora Rovero went towards the hut, where the Marquis had left the mute in a state of insensibility, Aminta went to the villa, preceding those who bore Tonio. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Messenger, from Dr.H. Wells, of H.rtford, Connecticut, in which he claimed to be the discoverer of the fact that the respiring of gas would produce insensibility to pain. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
It is not by hypnotising the soul, nor by blessing it into a state of ecstatic insensibility, that the Lord enables the man filled with the Spirit to thus triumph over suffering. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
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