For though, ever careless of herself, she will wander the house unshod, and tell us not to talk havers when we chide her, the sight of one of us similarly
negligent rouses her anxiety at once.
Greaves, Benson, every decent servant had left, and those that were come to supply their places were a
negligent, disorderly set, to say no worse - I must change them again, if I stay.
It is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is
negligent of expense, of health, of life, of danger, of hatred, of reproach, and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
This was meant for a contemptuous jeer, though the expression of the thin, sickly face remained unchanged, and the utterance was
negligent.
In all modes of travelling, the American customs, with reference to the means of personal cleanliness and wholesome ablution, are extremely
negligent and filthy; and I strongly incline to the belief that a considerable amount of illness is referable to this cause.
A man, sir,' replied the servant, who was to the full as cool and
negligent in his way as his master, 'has brought home the riding- whip you lost the other day.
James Harthouse, happening to catch Tom's eye, remarked that he drank nothing, and filled his glass with his own negligent hand.
He then walked home pretty easily, though not yet free from an impression of the presence and influence of his new friend - as if he were lounging somewhere in the air, in the same negligent attitude, regarding him with the same look.
It passed into Mortimer Lightwood's mind that a change of some sort, best expressed perhaps as an intensification of all that was wildest and most
negligent and reckless in his friend, had come upon him in the last half-hour or so.
Another observation I must make, to the honour of a diligent application on one hand, and to the disgrace of a slothful,
negligent, idle temper on the other, that when I came to the place, and viewed the several improvements, plantings, and management of the several little colonies, the two men had so far out-gone the three, that there was no comparison.
His long, black hair escaped in
negligent waves from beneath each side of his old pinched-up hat; and glimpses of his bare wrists might be observed between the tops of his gloves and the cuffs of his coat sleeves.
FAISALABAD -- City Police Officer Afzal Kosar has said that strict action will be taken against corrupt and
negligent police staff in the district.
