Adjective : insensible to shame; insensible to the cold. ,We are not insensible of your kindness. ,insensible transitions. From Dictionary.com.
You chide yourself for feeling insensibly disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [Everyday Zoology] Reference
The others fall insensibly into the silent, dozy state. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
I had insensibly imbibed a notion, or rather a feeling, that I was. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
Billie knew that irregular rattling hum, and insensibly quickened her pace. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Perhaps, with the shot, the outlaw insensibly somewhat relaxed that choking arm. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
They often merge insensibly into the green filaments (protonema) already noticed. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
This thought insensibly took possession of his mind, to the exclusion of all besides. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She wandered over the cliffs and insensibly she made, at last, for the Haunted House. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
Man is an imitative animal, and insensibly conforms to the models and examples before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Five o'clock has crept on them almost insensibly, and tea has been brought out to the veranda. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Shut up in your attic, you insensibly surround yourself with a thousand effeminate indulgences. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Next this capping was almost insensibly dropped, and the buttress became a mere flat strip of wall. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
The Table, in its turn, forgetting that its duties were essentially religious, sunk insensibly into. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
If you would get rid of your money without knowing how, be a Drunkard; and it will vanish insensibly. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
It is a law of our nature that we insensibly change into the likeness of that which we behold and admire. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
He sometimes was pictured with six wings, and feet of wool, to show how insensibly and swiftly time passes. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
By this quiet compliment, enhanced by his captivating courtesy, he advanced insensibly in the good graces of the old man. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If it is so, the ugly should be the visible form of the evil, and, by constantly beholding it, the mind insensibly deteriorates. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The whole country has a solitude, and an impressive grandeur, which insensibly carries back the mind to an earlier and ruder age. '. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
On reaching Albany, in November, 1812, Van Buren saw the electoral situation at a glance; and naturally, almost insensibly, he became. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
He will soon find that his voice will accommodate itself insensibly in pitch, tone, and movement to the changing emotions of the poem. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
Absorbed by the interest of the scene, my captors had insensibly loosened their hold, and I determined to have some satisfaction out of the captain. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
He insensibly helped on that reform from a too rigid classicism which in our day we have seen pushed to its extreme in the exaggerations of romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Wordsworth, a Keats, a Rossetti, a Béranger, and often his form insensibly glides into that of the precursor whose spirit he for the moment assimilates. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
In either case they see each other insensibly change, and in spite of themselves conceive an aversion to those pleasures, even in sharing which they blush. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
To their judicial functions, the Parliament of Paris, and to a minor degree the provincial parliaments, had insensibly added other functions purely political. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
And who will say that a child might not learn to like reading, might not insensibly get into the spirit of the art, by this simple method when duly insisted on?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
After this horrible detonation, calm was insensibly restored, whilst the hissing of serpents and howlings of the wild beasts were the only sounds heard around us. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
A person of marked suavity of speech and bearing radiates about him an atmosphere of good humor, which insensibly influences the manners and the speech of others. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
And it is these great principles of all that is good and noble in our nature that is brought out and developed insensibly by the study of the classics in our youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Cain and Abel; and, saddened with these mournful reflections, I walked on as chance took me, until the silence all around insensibly drew me out from my own thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Nevertheless, St. Francis persevered, and at length his patience, zeal, and eminent virtue, wrought upon the most obdurate, and insensibly wore away their prejudices. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
She could admire his strength of will and purpose whole heartedly and as she contrasted them with Aunt Trudy's characteristics, Rosemary insensibly found her aunt wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
Hence, naturally and insensibly, this secluded and musing girl had associated all that she read in tales of romance and chivalry with the image of the brave and loyal stranger. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
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