| 1. | Insensate insensate yet I at any rate chant you, O banne. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 3. | The discredited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | "The executioner of Lille, the executioner of Lille" cried Milady, a prey to insensate terror, and clinging with her hands to the wall to avoid falling. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | It is these insensate cold-blooded husbands who raise, without satisfying, their wife's erotic passions, and drive them perforce to seek salacious comfort in other arms. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |
| 6. | I, too, my darling, have had my day of imprudence, and knowing the result, I should be both cruel and stupidly insensate to let you run the risk of what already occurred.. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |