1 Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.
2 While he spoke, however, the young soldier seized his rifle, and advancing toward the front, prepared to atone for his venial remissness, by freely exposing his life in defense of those he attended.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 3 Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion.
4 That he might not be remiss in his part of the engagement, he resolved to wait full two hours, on this third and last night.
5 "You have been very remiss in not coming to me sooner," said he, severely.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 6 He prayed that if any man there had been remiss toward the stranger come to a far country, God would forgive him and soften his heart.