inconsequences

Such inconsequences are common in Eastern story-books and a goody-goody sentiment is always heartily received as in an English theatre.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

If use of those spectacles has so dimmed its sight, that it cannot without them see consequences or inconsequences in argumentation, I am not so unreasonable as to be against the using them.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

Some interesting points from a psychologist about the book and its inconsequences.

Senior employees. magnio 2005

And as in negotiation with others, men are wrought by cunning, by importunity, and by vehemency; so in this negotiation within ourselves, men are undermined by inconsequences, solicited and importuned by impressions or observations, and transported by passions.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

Freezing water contracts awhile, and then without any provocation turns right about face and expands; if your pitcher stands in the way, so much the worse for your pitcher, but the little fishes are grateful; and with all her whims and inconsequences, Nature gets on from year to year without once failing of seed-time and harvest, cold or heat.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

Nothing but the charming _fraternité_ of the ward-room, the delightful inconsequences of the chart-house kitten, and the throb of the oil-fed turbine!

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 Various

I scolded him for his inconsequences, and he dared to implore me to put his daughter "in the right way," to become one day Queen of France by marrying Monsieur le Dauphin, whom she loved already with her whole heart.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

From this time onward her artistic faculty dominated her life, often, probably, unknown to herself an invincible force of instinct she obeyed, whilst assigning, in all good faith, other motives for her course of action, and for real or apparent inconsequences, that have been constantly misrepresented and misunderstood.

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

Only Bostonians can understand Bostonians and thoroughly sympathise with the inconsequences of the Boston mind.

The Height of Knowledge (1902) 1918

"Well, I owe her that anyhow -- poor Addie!" he said, with a smile at the inconsequences of fate.

His Father's Son 1909