So I take the opportunity to pay my tribute to him who long ago put these figures on the frontier of my imagination, and who has prevented my ever speaking in dispassion or without favorable prejudice of them.
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
He was surprised to find himself looking at the girl with utter dispassion, as if nothing had happened.
"Gargoyles"
Ben Hecht
She was very tired, very nervous, able, with cold dispassion, to wonder what she and Billy Oliver were doing in this close, dirty train,-to wonder why people ever spoke of a wedding-day as especially pleasant,-what people found in life worth while, anyway!
"Saturday's Child"
Kathleen Norris