Attended

Examples

• Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The one missent must first be attended to; it had been written five days ago. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• They are attended with thick clouds and rain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• All advances into the city were thus attended with much danger. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These articles were brought to me by Skyresh Bolgolam in person attended by two under-secretaries, and several persons of distinction. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It might have been mere chance, but so it was that Margaret never heard that he had attended her poor mother's funeral. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• When I next attended to them, they were standing a little off from the bed, looking at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Our single boatman attended to the sail; Raymond steered; Clara sat at his feet, clasping his knees with her arms, and laying her head on them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Sounding Mr. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is too weak to take hold of the mind, or be attended with emotion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I could see in the action of Estella's fingers as they worked that she attended to what I said; but she did not look up. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He also sent out detachments to destroy the railroad between Petersburg and Richmond, but no great success attended these latter efforts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A widow lady kept the house; she had a daughter, and a maidservant, and a journeyman who attended the warehouse, but lodged abroad. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If his progress downward had been attended with difficulties and uncertainty, his journey back was infinitely more perplexing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They were, therefore, by turns, constantly with us, and generally he who attended brought with him a friend or two for company. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Elizabeth obeyed, and running into her own room for her parasol, attended her noble guest downstairs. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is very good advice, and it shall have a better fate than your advice has often found; for it shall be attended to. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He wished her a good morning, and, attended by Sir John, left the room. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Isn't it droll that I never go out after dark, but I find myself attended, always by one scout, and often by two? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But he was then deep in a problem; and we attended at least an hour, before he could solve it. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The absence or presence of a part of the cause is attended with that of a proportionable part of the effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He attended on us, as I may say, in sackcloth and ashes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• To this dialogue Riderhood had attended in silence, and he now obsequiously bespake the Captain. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The idea quite stunned her, as she attended the light footsteps down the stairs, that the house door might be safely shut. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Now virtue and vice are attended with these circumstances. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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