| 1. | I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | My books, at this epoch, if they did not actually serve to irritate the disorder, partook, it will be perceived, largely, in their imaginative and inconsequential nature, of the characteristic qualities of the disorder itself. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |