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  • Insensible to the surrounding group who in anxious solicitude hung over her; it appeared as if she never would awaken to bless her son with her smiles; so much time elapsed in this dreadful suspense.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • Must I come, then, to Cleves, fair Insensible, but as a visitor to Mr. Lionel?

    Camilla 2008

  • Insensible as he was to everything but the clink of money and the glitter of gold, he left Mme. Chardon without caring to notice the effect of the shock that he had given her.

    Eve and David 2007

  • Insensible of her own safety, she charged out of the shadows of the trees and into the glade, running forward towards the knot of men standing around Anatole and Gabignaud.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • Insensible as he was to everything but the clink of money and the glitter of gold, he left Mme. Chardon without caring to notice the effect of the shock that he had given her.

    Eve and David 2007

  • Insensible to his sufferings, and exasperated by his assertions, they threatened, that if he did not immediately leave the convent, he should be confined, and undergo the severe punishment to which he had become liable, for having disturbed and even insulted one of their holy order while performing an act of penance.

    The Italian 2004

  • ‘Madam (said Quin, with a glance of ineffable disdain) the Ghost of Gimlet is laid, never to rise again’ — Insensible of this check, she proceeded:

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • Insensible to the pain, the price in precious strength it exacted, Jess flipped himself over.

    The Unforgiven Patricia MacDonald 1981

  • Insensible to objects in which she once delighted; to afflictions which had blasted her blooming prospects, and drained the streams of life, she lay like blossomed trees of spring, overthrown by rude and boisterous winds.

    Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson

  • Insensible of that relaxed weight upon his cramped arm, this guilty wretch hardly can suppress a groan.

    Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee

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