"Imperturbability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him askance for awhile, but West's imperturbability took effect before very long. They accepted him without enthusiasm, but also without rancour, as a man who could ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... going?" "Yuzgat! ekmek! ekmek!" tapping the saddle-bags in quite an imperative manner. This does not make any outward impression upon the Bey's aggravating imperturbability, however; he is not so indifferent to my side of the question as he pretends; aware of his inability to supply my want, and afraid that a negative answer would hasten my departure before he has fully satisfied ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... as is vouchsafed to one man in a million, a constitution nothing could impair, endurance incomparable, were his bodily attributes: an intellect cold, clear, and penetrating was his, joined to an imperturbability of temperament which enabled him to accept with a cheerful philosophy blows by which weaker men were absolutely prostrated; his outlook on life was not dimmed by any affections, and pity was a sensation which to him was entirely alien. In this record of his deeds the reader has been spared ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey
... him from the subject by the force of her imperturbability, and he could only declaim against her ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and Tally lit their pipes. Nobody seemed much interested now that the amusement was over. Bob owned a boyish desire to follow the wake of the cyclone, but in the presence of this imperturbability, ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
... discovered that he was penniless. And she had a desperate hope that the dismal aspect of Trevison's future would appall Hester—as it would were the woman still the mercenary creature she had been ten years before. But Hester looked at her with grave imperturbability. ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer |
