It might be seen in the fidgety restlessness of Miss Gascoigne, whose eyes, still full of passionate fire, lent a painful youthfulness to her faded face, and in the lazy supineness of Miss Grey, who seemed never to have an opinion or a thought of her own.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Surely, surely, you cannot be a party to the criminal supineness which at this very moment besets France, and causes her to abandon him to his fate?
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The Stuart prince is in deadly danger, not only from supineness but from treachery.
"Petticoat Rule"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy