causelessness

Reader! when you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be sure that there is a canker somewhere, and a canker not the less deeply corroding because concealed.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Such causelessness would bind the Soul under an even sterner compulsion, no longer master of itself, but at the mercy of movements apart from will and cause.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Such were the pretexts behind which the first president and his friends prepared for a carnage which, for causelessness and atrocity, finds few parallels on the page of history.

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be sure that there is a canker somewhere, and a canker not the less deeply corroding because concealed.

Daily Strength for Daily Needs Mary W. Tileston

He meant the sense of profound mystery, the revolt against utter causelessness, which had tormented to no clearness so many generations of minds.

Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

The causelessness of all this fuff stirred my own bile.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

But the third has its roots apparently in mere haphazard and causelessness, and isn't explicable by any means whatsoever, and yet is far and away the violentest of the three.

My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883

In the story, she wears an aspect of singular causelessness, and Rip's devotion to the drinking-can is barely hinted: the marvellous tenderness, too, and joyful sorrow of his return after the twenty years 'sleep, are apparently not even suspected by the writer.

A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

In the story, she wears an aspect of singular causelessness, and Rip's devotion to the drinking-can is barely hinted: the marvellous tenderness, too, and joyful sorrow of his return after the twenty years 'sleep, are apparently not even suspected by the writer.

A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

The causelessness of all this fuff stirred my own bile.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872