Indifferently

Examples

• Mr. Letterblair tells me the financial question has been settled-- Oh, yes, she said indifferently. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Yes, she said, indifferently, if you have nothing more interesting to talk about. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The old subsidy was imposed indifferently upon exportation, as well as importation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every tax must finally be paid from some one or other of those three different sources of revenue, or from all of them indifferently. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The elder traveller nodded his head indifferently, and the reddleman turned his horses and van in upon the turf, saying, Good night. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Meanwhile her voice sounded out reedy and nonchalant, as she talked indifferently with Birkin and with Maxim. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I can't take it as indifferently as you can, St. Clare. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The house was damp and decayed, indifferently furnished--evidently, recently occupied and temporarily used. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They fall indifferently upon every species of revenue, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, and the rent of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Has not nature scattered all the qualities which our citizens require indifferently up and down among the two sexes? Plato. The Republic.
• Damon, how strange it seems that you could have married her or me indifferently, and only have come to me because I am--cheapest! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• So did a heap of nuts, long, long exiled from Barcelona, and yet speaking English so indifferently as to call fourteen of themselves a pint. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We look at it indifferently and the doctor asks: By Michael Angelo? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Your attention is not distributed indifferently and miscellaneously to any and every detail. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I have not considered the subject, said he indifferently, looking straight before him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She looked at the letters as they lay, checked her feeling and moved indifferently aside; when he gathered them up, and examined them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They might both maintain indifferently, either productive or unproductive hands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thomasin is now staying at her aunt's shut up in a bedroom, and keeping out of everybody's sight, he said indifferently. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I said, as quietly and indifferently as I could. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Oh, well--at the pass we've come to nowadays, it doesn't matter, said Mrs. Archer indifferently. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• You are mistaken, she said indifferently. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The army was but indifferently supplied with transportation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And do you breed from them all indifferently, or do you take care to breed from the best only? Plato. The Republic.
• I have more than once stayed here a few nights for the sake of seclusion, said Bulstrode, indifferently; I am quite disposed to do so now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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