Attending

Examples

• I was attending a little patient in the college near, said he, and saw it dropped out of his chamber window, and so came to pick it up. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I had also sometimes the honour of attending my master in his visits to others. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Or why had not she rather gone to her own room, as she had felt to be safest, instead of attending the rehearsal at all? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Harriet was to sit again the next day; and Mr. Elton, just as he ought, entreated for the permission of attending and reading to them again. Jane Austen. Emma.
• In attending to your interests, I wish to have all possible checks upon me; it is right that I should have them; I court inquiry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Attending court the other day--I attend it regularly, with my documents--I taxed him with it, and he almost confessed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Because she has not seen enough of the evil attending such things, she goes and gets married next, as the child relates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Attending to his military duties at Lewes, my lord. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Another difficulty attending the use of insulated wires buried in the ground arises from a very peculiar condition of electrical conduction, that could scarcely have been anticipated. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Without attending to this, Henry Crawford continued his supplication. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I am attending, sir,' replied Miss Wren, without the slightest appearance of so doing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There are inconveniences attending such feelings as Marianne's, which all the charms of enthusiasm and ignorance of the world cannot atone for. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But when he was about to graduate, he wrote to his father, a well-known clergyman of Charlestown, Massachusetts, I am now released from college, and am attending to painting. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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