"Imperturbability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... town," he said, and he rushed her into a train, moving to the town station. They went to a cafe to drink coffee, she sat looking at people in the street, and a great wound was in her breast, a cold imperturbability in her soul. ...
— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
... a week had this man occupied the same seat, and with careless imperturbability had mulcted the bank of ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton
... don't happen to have an engraved card with me." Before the continued imperturbability of the old Butler all subterfuge seemed suddenly quite useless. "I never have had an engraved card," she confided quite abruptly. "But you might tell Miss Flora if you please—" ... Would nothing crack the Butler's ...
— Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... a son, and such a husband, she must have been possessed of a more than usual share of German imperturbability to sustain her cheerfulness, writhing, as she often was, under the pangs of a long-concealed disorder, of which eventually she died. Even on the occasion of the king's return in time to spend his birthday in England, the queen's temper had been sorely tried. Nothing had ever vexed her ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton
... of the shoulders with which he concluded, appeared to rouse his companion from her imperturbability. An expression of displeasure crossed her face, and her voice had in it a tone ...
— The Northern Light • E. Werner
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