Heeded
[hi:did]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Heed
Checker: Trent
Examples
- Twice I called him by his name, in the tone in which I might have tried to rouse a sleeper, before he heeded me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He should have heeded her for Eustacia's sake even more than for his own. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mr. Rochester heard, but heeded not: he stood stubborn and rigid, making no movement but to possess himself of my hand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The Captain had hung over her piano twenty times of an evening (my Lady was now upstairs, being ill, and nobody heeded her) as Miss Sharp sang. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Claytons heeded Black Michael's instructions so well that they saw but little of the crew and knew nothing of the plans the men were making. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The spinster aunt heeded not the remark; she thought it applied to Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She had neither heeded nor heard me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But as yet he had not heeded. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She grinned at him so that he might see that every tooth in her head was sound--and he never heeded all these charms. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But she never heeded him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My recommendation was heeded and the appointment made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She heeded no more what they said, than if she had had no ears. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Checker: Trent