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Frequently, also, she took long drives alone or with one of the children, holding the reins listlessly, and ranging the highway unobservantly for miles around.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various

Having observed whatever he thought it would afterward prove useful to know, he descended the same way, not unobservantly, as he had gone up, but exploring and noticing all the peculiarities of the path.

From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by Watson, John Selby

I took the brush and turned to the window, leaning my forehead against the glass and staring unobservantly at the view.

From The Return of the Soldier by West, Rebecca

Home people, whose air of ownership to the surroundings classified them at once, moving unobservantly about their affairs.

From At Fault by Chopin, Kate