| 1. | I wish you could dismiss that apathy out of that countenance, and look rather more anxious about me.. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 2. | She had sunk into a dreary apathy and would not be roused. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 3. | I opened it with apathy the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 4. | I thought I would find out if his apathy were real or only assumed, and tried to lead him to talk of his pets, a theme which had never failed to excite his attention. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 5. | But to his surprise Willarski soon noticed that Pierre had lagged much behind the times, and had sunk, as he expressed it to himself, into apathy and egotism. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |