"Unmindful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when the air is full of the fumes of gunpowder; when the returned volunteers are running for constable in every county; when so good a Whig as Mr. Winthrop gives, as a sentiment, at a public meeting in Boston, "Our country, however bounded," and the majority of his party are preparing—unmindful of Mr. Polk and all his works—to reap the fruits of the Mexican war by making its popular ...
— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay
... heard her. Drake, Amidon, and the postmaster, who had just stopped, stood in the doorway, with no attempt to disguise their interest, and watched Major Arms spring out of the carriage like a boy, kiss his sweetheart, utterly unmindful of their observance, then assist the sisters to the back seat, and spring ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... Unmindful of my companion's remonstrances, I ran back to the corner; and slowly promenaded past the upright coat ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville
... came at last, and Mr. Brumley tried not to think of it, paternally, at Margate. He fled from Sir Isaac's ultimate withdrawal. Blenker's obituary notice in the Old Country Gazette was a masterpiece of tactful eulogy, ostentatiously loyal, yet extremely not unmindful of the widowed proprietor, and of all the possible changes of ownership looming ahead. Mr. Brumley, reading it in the Londonward train, was greatly reminded of the Hostels. That was a riddle he didn't begin to solve. Of course, it was imperative the ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... importunity, and unmindful of the unities of time and place, went freely about, from gourd to gourd, concocting in him a punch. At which, Samoa expressed much surprise, that he should be so unobservant as not to know, that ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville
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