"Unsympathizing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so," replied Mr. Long, who deemed it his duty to be stern and unsympathizing. "How did you ...
— Hope and Have - or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People • Oliver Optic
... who, the next minute, expected to see the skies fall to crush them, or the earth open to swallow them up forever. But I was myself unmoved," our friend concluded, in his usual vein of philosophy, "though, I trust, not unsympathizing; because I saw, through those dun clouds of smoke, the stars still shining serenely aloft, and because I felt that after that transient convulsion of nature the great sun would rise as majestically ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... one's notions of the softness and tenderness of babyhood. To be sure, they are well treated—kindly and gently treated, perhaps; but it is pitiful to see these helpless little creatures bereft of the gentle motherly touch; washed, physicked, nursed, and too often buried by hired and unsympathizing hands; and no more thought of them, save in the way of duty, than so many little animals destitute of souls. The very idea of attachments formed by nurses is of itself a painful subject of contemplation; for of what avail is it that a child should be loved by its nurse, or find in her a new ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne |
