This supineness is deeply to be regretted, for if Persia could supply good silk the profit to her and to England would be great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference

What excuse could they find for supineness and sloth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

Up until now, the supineness of the Senate has been appalling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time for President Sessions (R- AL)?] Reference

I know no mark more irrefragable of the supineness of mankind. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

Mr. Gladstone then referred to the supineness of the Ambassadors of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Old Man] Reference

Shall the progress of humanity wait upon your supineness, or neglect, or refusal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The supineness of his attitude was one of the most irritating features of the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

In the following language he censures the indolence and supineness of the Athenians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

A lasting transformation of such an image cannot be attained by terpsichorean supineness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference

The police were, as usual, blamed for their supineness-most unjustly as time was to show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Partners In Crime]

For it is not to his own strength that he so much owes his elevation as to our supineness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

But, where vigorous and instantaneous action was requisite, he exhibited only supineness and delay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

Which security and supineness of theirs he both foretells and taxeth in other places once and again.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

Then it is more supineness, insensibility, and natural arrogance than any desire to use me worse than another.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference

Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference

Are we now to allow ourselves to drift gradually back to our old policy of supineness and negligence as existed before the war?.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference

Many clergymen, as well as lay magistrates, had exhibited a singular supineness in the detection and punishment of the reformed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

Although skilfully conducted, this escape is to be referred, in reality, to Howe's supineness and the hospitality of Mrs. Robert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference

Germany to see the tyrants who have pinnacled themselves on its supineness precipitated into the ruin from which they shall never arise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

It was bad enough in Bulgaria, but when we crossed the frontier at a place called Mustafa Pasha we struck the real supineness of the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

The leaders of the faction do not, however, entirely depend either on the supineness of their adversaries, or the submission of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

In the same letter he assured me "that too much could not be said in condemnation of Sir Frederick Leighton's and the Academicians 'supineness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

Great difficulties will have to be encountered, arising mainly from the indolence, the supineness, the prejudices, the ignorance, and the poverty of the Sarde population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

How could there be doubt or supineness on such a momentous subject?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

In the beginning of the next chapter we are told why there was this singular supineness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

I cannot be surprised at any thing, considering the supineness of the ministry -- nobody has yet been taken up!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference

He was hampered in his means, but he was assisted by what now seems the incredible supineness of the Netherlanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

The introduction of this supply revived the hopes of the Greeks, and accused the supineness of their Western allies.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6] Reference

So much intellectual energy commands enthusiasm, while the supineness on the other side sometimes excites indignation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Warwick's invasion, and rated King Edward sharply for his supineness in not preparing suitably against so formidable a foe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference

The Prince was frustrated in his hopes of a general battle, still more bitterly disappointed by the supineness of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Unless we have more ill fortune than is conceivable, or the general supineness continues, it is impossible but we must get over this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference

The supineness of the Protestants deepened in direct proportion to the feverish increase of activity on the part of Austria and the League.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference