| 1. | "Not quite so miserable as to be insensible to mirth. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 2. | Grey was coarse and insensible no blow took effect on her. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | For a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 4. | 'As you believe that I am not insensible or ungrateful, so hear my answer.. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort on Mrs. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 6. | Hector's dead earth, insensible of wron. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | Still, Oliver lay motionless and insensible on the spot where Sikes had left him. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | But, for many days, Oliver remained insensible to all the goodness of his new friends. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | Elinor was very angry, but Marianne seemed entirely insensible of the sting for she calmly replied. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |