He tried to ask carelessly, but could not quite pull it off.

One morning at breakfast he stopped talking about himself long enough to ask carelessly:

What you can do is call up, say you're the detective bureau, and ask carelessly about Beaton.

But over his meal, while Cutter and Struve watched him impatiently, he did little talking other than to ask carelessly where del Rio was.

One night he asked carelessly, What do you want with the clock?

Then, forgetting he was in a foreign country, he asked carelessly:

He asked carelessly what the owner wanted for the thing.

The question was asked carelessly, casually, but Prince read in it a warning to his friend.

Then he drew Iowaka close beside him on a bench near the stove, and asked carelessly:

When he came into our room late one evening, I asked carelessly where he had been.

The door was opened by a negro waiter, who merely glanced at her, and asked carelessly:

Rose asked carelessly, as they rode along.

Then as he turned toward the door, he asked carelessly, "Is he very good-looking, Prudence?"

But not wishing them to know of his interest, he asked carelessly when "this thing began."

And those papers? she asked carelessly.

"You are on your way to Paris, Sir Percy?" he asked carelessly.