But, to tell you a secret, if I were convinced that they are necessarily and universally different from us - fickle, soon petrifying, unsympathising - I would never marry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

Oh! how, bustled about amidst a crowd of unsympathising strangers, to whom our domestic life is only an ideality, I longed for the quiet and charm and love of an English home!.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference

Then, perhaps — for there was no foreseeing how it might affect her — Pearl would frown, and clench her little fist, and harden her small features into a stern, unsympathising look of discontent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

These were kind, loving words, showing in themselves a spirit of love and forbearance; but they were spoken in a harsh, unsympathising voice, and the speaker, as he uttered them, looked gloomily at the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference

Mr Derwent thought Phoebe particularly unsympathising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference

"To no unsympathising hearer, though," said the curate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2] Reference

I am not so untender, so unsympathising, not so brutal -- let us speak out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference

With an artificial standard of its own, it is in considerate and unsympathising to others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons. Volume the Second.] Reference

I did not dare to breathe aloud the unhallowed anguish of my mind to the majesty of the unsympathising stars!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falkland, Complete] Reference

He was grateful in his way; but it struck me that there was something hard and unsympathising in his character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afar in the Forest] Reference

There was something in the hard, dry, unsympathising, unchanging virtues of her husband which almost revolted her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn The Irish Member] Reference

She was ever gloomy, unsympathising, carping, but she worked herself to death for those whose love she chillily repulsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference

I dunnot believe she'll ever live again, 'said he, sitting down, and drearily going on, as if to the unsympathising fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [North and South] Reference

Frances's words reminded her of the cold, unsympathising way in which her elder daughter had alluded in her letters to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls] Reference

Ralph was silent and unsympathising, trying to nerve himself up to be disagreeable, but finding it difficult in the face of such sweet trust.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark Night's Work] Reference

The unsympathising Aar rushes beneath; and the snow-peaks, whom we love like friends, abide untroubled by the coming and the going of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference

This went on hour after hour, but still Adela did not come, and as the afternoon wore on he began to think it extremely cruel and unsympathising.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"] Reference

Alas, we cannot help ourselves from becoming unimaginative, unsympathising, destructive and brutish when we are hard pressed by agony or by fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life] Reference

I always believed in his judgment and good-sense, but what I doubted was his kindness -- he seemed to me a little too harsh, rigid, and unsympathising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference

His guardian, a stiff, unsympathising man, had informed him, that as his mother's annuity ceased with her life, there was very little left to support him.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference

I believe that clerks are often made hard-hearted or selfish, if not rogues, by the unsympathising or supercilious way in which they are treated by their employers.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference

Now and then there was a reference to the chilliness and hardship of living with an unsympathising sister, and being obliged to go to churches of which they did not approve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Broods] Reference

"And this I do and suffer for thee, Ravenna!" said the bundle in the same shrill tenor, making an attempt, as it spoke, to raise two little projecting fins towards the cold, unsympathising stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Siren] Reference

The joke -- I do dislike to have to explain jokes, especially to you cool, unsympathising Bostonians -- is the ridiculousness of any mere human person claiming to own such a thing as the Niagara Falls.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Day's Courtship] Reference

IT WAS now a principal object with the fair captive of Charolois, that her unsympathising attendant should enter her chamber as little as possible, and only at seasons when there was no chance of a visit from Mignon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches] Reference

I am not so untender, so unsympathising, not so brutal ” let us speak out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]

A harsh, unsympathising voice, and the speaker, as he uttered them, looked gloomily at the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference

"One might at first sight think that this tremendous Autocrat, this uncontrolled and unsympathising Power, would be far above anything like passions, desires, or inclinations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam] Reference

Alfred hastened to pour his tale of sorrows into an ear evidently not unsympathising, and when he had concluded Edgar asked -- "And tell me what is your request.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference

She was so stiff and unsympathising.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Carrots": Just a Little Boy] Reference

"That I was unkind and unsympathising.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Broods] Reference

Step-mother, and an unsympathising public.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

We are all by nature hard and unsympathising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons. Volume the Second.] Reference

Is He a remote, majestic, unsympathising, terrible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference