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Halloway moved back a little and looked at Gerald, who stood fastening her long glove, utterly unconscious or unheedful of his scrutiny.

From Only an Incident by Litchfield, Grace Denio

Forgetful, or unheedful, of the fact that the natives of the Isle of Axholme were notoriously violent and lawless, he began to rule them with a rod of iron.

From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington)

Numerian had hitherto stood unheedful while he spoke; but when he touched Antonina the bare action was enough to arouse the father to resistance—hopeless though it was—once more.

From Antonina by Collins, Wilkie

And he walked straight to his desk, eyes dead ahead like a somnambulist's, unheedful of the men who watched him silently with drawn, anxious faces.

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.

Yet at last she called to mind how little patient of questions was her mistress, and that if she were unheedful she might come to raise an evil storm about her. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William