I was shocked at having been led for a moment into this obliviousness.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
Ingeborg manifestly enjoyed herself, but it was with an absorption in what she was seeing and an obliviousness to himself that seemed to him both excessive and tiresome.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
But Ingram, who was fastidious, could no more make love to her, violently begin, robustly stand no nonsense, so long as she was steeped in obliviousness, than he could to a child or a chair.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim