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He could not suspect his Villaine boy to do this deede, for he knew him not to be endued with so much wit, onely hee curst him for keeping it no better, and curst himselfe also, for reposing trust in such a careles knave, knowing him to be slothfull, disobedient, negligent, and void of all honest understanding or grace.
The Decameron 2004
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Turnings, without affectation of strayning, as it should seeme with facilitie and careles ease at pleasure and sweete iestures, as in such a thing may bee imagined, and not else where to bee seene.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Also thesame Demosthenes, seyng the people careles, sloth - full, and lothsome to heare the Oratours, and all for the flo - rishing state of the kingdome: he ascended to the place or pul - pet, where the Oracions were made, and began with this fa -
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He looked neither to right nor left, but picked Monsieur's tall silk hat from off a peg and placed it careles sly upon his own head.
John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906
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And I protest, Praesumption shall never see mee out of order when I am marryed, but in a morninge, and at night in my severall Satten Petticotes and Wastcotes, and alwayes in my careles Garbe.
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P erfor mance is limited by avail able ter sophisticate sticated, an epea e aws p ysic r vercome careles dri n a p peal eles driving ti ns erformance limite y available es s imited a traction, trac tract ion, which s ch snow, ice and other conditions c aff ect.
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And I protest, Praesumption shall never see mee out of order when I am marryed, but in a morninge, and at night in my severall Satten Petticotes and Wastcotes, and alwayes in my careles Garbe.
The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644
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Speake thou that wooest death with thy careles smile
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First, when yet there was onely probabilitie, not a certaine and determinate place of habitation selected, neither any demonstration of commoditie there in esse, to induce his followers: neuertheles, he both was too prodigall of his owne patrimony, and too careles of other mens expences, to imploy both his and their substance vpon a ground imagined good.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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That the bookes of the discoveries of the West Indies, and the conquests of the same, be also caried, to kepe men occupied from worse cogitations, and to raise their myndes to courage and highe enterprizes, and to make them lesse careles for the better shonnynge of comon daungers in suche cases arisinge.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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