"Imperturbability" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him askance for awhile, but West's imperturbability took effect before very long. They accepted him without enthusiasm, but also without rancour, as a man who could ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... going?" "Yuzgat! ekmek! ekmek!" tapping the saddle-bags in quite an imperative manner. This does not make any outward impression upon the Bey's aggravating imperturbability, however; he is not so indifferent to my side of the question as he pretends; aware of his inability to supply my want, and afraid that a negative answer would hasten my departure before he has fully satisfied ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... as is vouchsafed to one man in a million, a constitution nothing could impair, endurance incomparable, were his bodily attributes: an intellect cold, clear, and penetrating was his, joined to an imperturbability of temperament which enabled him to accept with a cheerful philosophy blows by which weaker men were absolutely prostrated; his outlook on life was not dimmed by any affections, and pity was a sensation which to him was entirely alien. In this record of his deeds the reader has been spared ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey
... him from the subject by the force of her imperturbability, and he could only declaim against her ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and Tally lit their pipes. Nobody seemed much interested now that the amusement was over. Bob owned a boyish desire to follow the wake of the cyclone, but in the presence of this imperturbability, ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White
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