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1  You seem very indifferent about it.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
2  On the question of recognition she was somewhat indifferent.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
3  Often a drop of irony into an indifferent situation renders the whole piquant.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
4  "Thomasin is now staying at her aunt's shut up in a bedroom, and keeping out of everybody's sight," he said indifferently.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
5  Venn went to the public room, called for a mug of ale, and inquired of the maid in an indifferent tone if Mr. Wildeve was at home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
6  She looked at the letters as they lay, checked her feeling and moved indifferently aside; when he gathered them up, and examined them.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
7  Had she not by her situation been inclined to hold in indifference all things honoured of the gods and of men she would probably have come away.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
8  Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
9  She appeared to be utterly indifferent to the circumstance that her bonnet, hair, and garments were becoming wet and disarranged by the moisture of her cold, harsh pillow.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
10  Eustacia's face was not visible to Charley as she stood at the doorway, her back being to the sky, and the stable but indifferently lighted; but the wildness of her manner arrested his attention.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
11  But in spite of possibilities it was not likely that Thomasin would accept this Ishmaelitish creature while she had a cousin like Yeobright at her elbow, and Wildeve at the same time not absolutely indifferent.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
12  The old captain's prevailing indifference to his granddaughter's movements left her free as a bird to follow her own courses; but it so happened that he did take upon himself the next morning to ask her why she had walked out so late.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
13  Afterwards he occasionally came in to see if the fire was burning, to ask her if she wanted anything, to tell her that the wind had shifted from south to west, to ask her if she would like him to gather her some blackberries; to all which inquiries she replied in the negative or with indifference.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One