"Obliviousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his zeal in the performance of his office, his obliviousness to the imperial presence, caused a ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace
... like ours, in which she may live not only for the family, for the state, for the race, but also for herself. Rome was unwilling to treat her as did the Greek and Asiatic world, but it did not on this account give up requiring of her the same total self-abnegation for the public weal, the utter obliviousness to her own aspirations and passions, in behalf ...
— The Women of the Caesars • Guglielmo Ferrero
... perceiving Ishmael's utter obliviousness of her own kindly presence and his perfect devotion to the thankless Claudia, Bee felt a pang, she went and buried herself with domestic duties, or played with the children in the nursery, or what was better still, ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth |
