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I had not Bob's fine natural regardlessness, for all my seniority and presumably superior knowledge of the world.

From No Hero by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

“What affectation of diffidence was this at first?” they might have demanded; “what stupid regardlessness now?”

From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.

I see with pain that you so far mistrust me that you think me likely to impose on Tom's regardlessness of himself, or on his kind nature, or some of his good qualities.'

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

Besides, have I not had three months of an easy mind, and of utter regardlessness as to my life and limbs?

From The Iron Horse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

There has been a sort of rivalry exercised on this head, and it has been pursued with that regardlessness of cost which distinguishes a trading community where their amour propre is in question.

From Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Power, Tyrone