To my surprise, I saw her eagerly lean forward while Margaret was speaking, and fix her eyes on her daughter with a look of penetrating scrutiny, of which I could never have supposed a person usually so feeble and unenergetic to be capable.
"Basil"
Wilkie Collins
As it was, even that most unenergetic of young men, Dolly Longstaff, was moved to profound admiration.
"The Duke's Children"
Anthony Trollope
For all these reasons the father was very anxious that his son should follow out the course for which he had been intended; but that he, being unenergetic and having hitherto done little for his son, should dictate to a young man who had been energetic, and who had done much for himself, was out of the question.
"The Claverings"
Anthony Trollope