"Heedless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the way," replied Mrs Vallance, "and prevent you heedless children climbing about in unsafe places and breaking ...
— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton
... the cheerful, blessed soil of America so soon lost its charm in your eye, that you approach it with an air so heedless? The infatuation of men of your profession, in favour of so dangerous and so treacherous an element, is an enigma I ...
— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper
... her clasping arms, How have the raptured moments flown! How have I wished for fortune's charms, For her dear sake and hers alone! And must I think it!—is she gone, My secret heart's exulting boast? And does she heedless hear my groan? And is she ...
— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent
... and greatness, so eager to haunt the palaces of fortune, and so fastidious to the houseless dignity of virtue; that parasite of pride, ever scornful to meekness, and ever obsequious to insolent power; that heedless trumpeter, whose ears are deaf to modest merit, and whose eyes are ...
— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various
... of the primal flood From some blind source of monster-haunted mud, And flung together by random forces stored Ere the vast void with rushing worlds was scored— Because we know ourselves but the dim scud Tossed from their heedless keels, the sea-blown bud That wastes and scatters ere the ...
— Artemis to Actaeon and Other Worlds • Edith Wharton
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