passively

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.

So I waited passively upon fate; and the work of transferring Montgomery's possessions to the launch went on as if I did not exist.

Raoul, therefore, had, in compliance with the wish of his father, served obstinately and passively the fortunes of Louis XIV., in spite of the tergiversations which were endemic, and, it might be said, inevitable, at that period.

But by the time she had got back to the village she was passively trusting to the favour of accident.

"I have been mad to stay with you for four years, to look on, however passively, at all the evil you have done.

Was he to submit thus passively to a feathered creature however enormous?

Wylie had learnt by rote that the whole duty of a lady is to be graceful, charitable, helpful, modest, and disinterested whilst awaiting passively whatever lot these virtues may induce.

"That's true!" sighed Richard, shaking his head and passively obeying Moncharmin.

He submitted passively to the latter's directing strength.

Their arm-chairs were drawn up on either side of the fire, and each sat in the same slightly crouched position, looking into the coals, with the expressions of people who have had their share of experiences and wait, rather passively, for something to happen.

But to be severed from him by the murderous hand of a man, was more than Emily's fervent nature could passively endure.