Attendants

Examples

• We shall do better, said he, to leave them two of our attendants and two horses to convey them back to the next village. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Lock the door on the outside,' said Mr. Brownlow to the attendants, 'and come when I ring. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Sick people often have fancies inscrutable to ordinary attendants, and Caroline had one which even her tender nurse could not at first explain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The trouble of watching and getting up at night will be transferred to attendants. Plato. The Republic.
• It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under the admiring Heavens. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was very malignant, and the looks of her attendants prognosticated the worst event. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• There was nobody in the church besides the officiating persons and the small marriage party and their attendants. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The attendants withdrew. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Girls are chosen as exchange attendants because their voices are clearer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He put the weeping old lady and her attendants into the carriage along with Jos, and left them without any farther words passing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A Knight stepped forward from the King's attendants, and, laying his hand on the shoulder of Albert de Malvoisin, said, I arrest thee of High Treason. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He was not at the palace; and, though the attendants did not know whither he had gone, they did not expect him till late at night. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A side-door at the upper end of the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apartment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He paroled his prisoners at Jackson, and was forced to leave his own wounded in care of surgeons and attendants. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The lower plants are still the prisoner attendants of water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Rowena wondered, hesitated, became curious, and ended by commanding the damsel to be admitted, and her attendants to withdraw. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• That their weight, including engines, fuel, water, and attendants, may be under three tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The steeds of these attendants were in appearance as foreign as their riders. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I cannot, if I would, replied the Preceptor; the mansion is filled with the attendants of the Grand Master, and others who are devoted to him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Pleasure and pain, therefore, are not only necessary attendants of beauty and deformity, but constitute their very essence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The major-domo departed with several attendants, to execute his master's commands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A man had come up to the table, with a crowd of attendants at his heels. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The attendants remained as mute to this address as to the former, and they now stood before the gate of the castle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Having ordered the attendants to retire, and closed the door very carefully, he said, 'Mr. Winkle, I presume? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Their numbers amounted to ten men, of whom the two who rode foremost seemed to be persons of considerable importance, and the others their attendants. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Squires, pages, and yeomen in rich liveries, waited around this place of honour, which was designed for Prince John and his attendants. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But, he was daily growing stronger and better, and it was declared by the medical attendants that he might not be much disfigured by-and-by. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A murmur arose even among his own immediate attendants. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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