Gospel are far more severe than to our cold, unimpulsive northern natures. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In short, Caroline's manner had always been so conventional and unimpulsive, that these complaints of life had seemed to him a part of her society-tone, aa easily taken on and off as her bonnet or her _paletot_. ❋ Various (N/A)
O'Brien, too, staid and unimpulsive as was his character, deliberate and circumspect as were his habits, was evidently inclined to give the weight of his name and influence to this "advanced" party. ❋ Various (N/A)
Something in Jacinth's premature wisdom -- almost savouring of 'worldly' wisdom -- rather repelled her, careful and unimpulsive though she herself was. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)
Jacinth's usually cold unimpulsive nature was strongly moved; there is always something impressive and touching in the emotion of the aged. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)
A right good unimpulsive gentleman: the same that she had always taken him for and liked. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Spanish Peninsula, was to be expected among the unimpulsive population of the North German plains; but the military circles of Prussia were generally in favour of war, and an insurrection of the population west of the Elbe was not improbable in the event of Napoleon's army being defeated by ❋ Charles Alan Fyffe (1868)
These are in themselves very interesting, as showing the quiet, orderly, unimpulsive manner in which the French Canadians live. ❋ Unknown (1862)
And then he did, what he had done dozens of times already -- he caught Natalie, with her eyes still bright and her face still animated (after talking to Launce) -- a striking contrast to the cold and unimpulsive young lady whom he was accustomed to see while ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
His unattractive austerity perhaps has been made too much of by his enemies, and grew out of his unimpulsive temperament, -- call it cold if we must, -- and also out of his stern theology, which marked the ascetics of the Middle Ages. ❋ John Lord (1852)
Their rock-like steadfastness and constant unimpulsive bravery, it was that enabled him to carry out his plans with such certainty. ❋ Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1810)
If that happens, then I will pray for him, that he will have uncharacteristically steady, unimpulsive, temperate judgment, and especially that his cancer does not recur a fourth time. ❋ Unknown (2008)
