This great remissness of mine has had its effect upon me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

An accident, and not remissness, has occasioned my silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

The horse nuzzling for sugar roused Polly to a sense of her remissness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

"Bring me the prayers of these people and I will forget your remissness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference

She returned only the more oppressed by the sense of remissness -- of remorse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference

Once a man condones remissness, his own belief in discipline begins to wither.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

Every day it is so, and there is no remissness in the observance of the custom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference

M49 The Londoners charged with remissness in carrying out the work of the plantation.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

"Oh, a thousand pardons for my remissness!" he exclaimed, ringing the bell vehemently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

They required exactitude from the native -- the Government set the example of remissness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

With an apology for my remissness, I went into my own room to get the papers from my bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracula] Reference

It is a great and fatal mistake if we suppose this work will admit of any remissness or intermission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

The king attributed the failure of the war to the remissness of his ministers in sending money and supplies.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

By some remissness of vigilance under the stringent orders, cattle, sheep, and hogs were slaughtered on all sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

Parents, how they wrong their children; how they cause melancholy by propagation; how by remissness and indulgence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

With apologies for my remissness or indistinctness, I assured my lady that I accepted it most readily and gratefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Silvermans's Explanation] Reference

Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

On one occasion, in a moment of remissness, she forgot her prayers and the sign of the cross, before retiring for the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

It made Alice think immediately of her own remissness -- if she had been remiss -- rather than of the enormity of his claim upon her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference

The remissness of that young gentleman in his attendance upon the lectures of the professors, had become by this time almost a proverb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

For, upon the mind there steals a pleasure even in sloth and remissness, and that very inactivity which was at first hated, is at last loved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference

Fenton's remissness of conduct was forgotten -- indeed her intrepidity singled her out for praise, which she received with becoming graciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

What chicanery failed to accomplish the remissness of officials successfully brought about, and the discomfort of the foreign inhabitants was complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

The station agent winced, as though she had laid a lash across his shoulders, and in his awkward fashion endeavored to apologize for his road's remissness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

She recalled Elsie's fresh grief for the death of her mother and her own sense of remissness, and the class motto that signified through hardships to the stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference

Be our faults what they may -- and our neighbours are not slow to discover them -- it is very seldom indeed that we are charged with remissness in this respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

Hence it is that, in Penance, according to the degree of intensity or remissness in the movement of the free-will, the penitent receives greater or lesser grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

E. Surratt, and various friends and servants of Mrs. Surratt, relative to physical causes, might fully explain and account for such ocular remissness and failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference

On being remonstrated with for his remissness, after the date of repayment or return of the article has expired, he will coolly reply, "You did not ask me for it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

A large sum is exacted for remissness during the Ramazan, and it is said that the dread of loss operates powerfully upon a class of men who are particularly penny-wise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

The remissness of a mercantile correspondent of his father altered the current of his life, and mightily influenced, even to the present day, the fortunes of his country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference

If faith be preached as that which is absolutely necessary to justification, then faith fantastical, and looseness and remissness in life, with some, are joined therewith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

For a moment the strong face of the man relaxed, as if in amusement at his own remissness; gradually however, it once more resumed its expression of musing thoughtfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

I entered, more desirous of seeing the young lady than the count her father; I was blaming myself for my remissness, but there is no controlling one's interest and affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference