ATTEND in Classic Quotes

1  Elizabeth silently attended her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

2  She seldom listened to anybody for more than half a minute, and never attended to Mary at all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 39

3  Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

4  He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

5  Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

6  I do not mean, however, to assert that we can be justified in devoting too much of our time to music, for there are certainly other things to be attended to.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

7  He joined them on their entering the town, and attended them to their aunt's where his regret and vexation, and the concern of everybody, was well talked over.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

8  After sitting a little while with Jane, on Miss Bingley's appearance and invitation, the mother and three daughters all attended her into the breakfast parlour.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

9  Hope was over, entirely over; and when Jane could attend to the rest of the letter, she found little, except the professed affection of the writer, that could give her any comfort.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

10  She knew but little of their meeting in Derbyshire, and therefore felt for the awkwardness which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

11  Georgiana's reception of them was very civil, but attended with all the embarrassment which, though proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt themselves inferior the belief of her being proud and reserved.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45

12  The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned, brought on a headache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening, that, added to her unwillingness to see Mr. Darcy, it determined her not to attend her cousins to Rosings, where they were engaged to drink tea.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 33

13  She highly approved his forbearance, and they had leisure for a full discussion of it, and for all the commendation which they civilly bestowed on each other, as Wickham and another officer walked back with them to Longbourn, and during the walk he particularly attended to her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

14  After sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the room, from the sideboard to the fender, to give an account of their journey, and of all that had happened in London, Mr. Collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden, which was large and well laid out, and to the cultivation of which he attended himself.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

15  When the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room, where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were during the hour which passed before the gentlemen appeared.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

16  After an affectionate parting between the friends, Elizabeth was attended to the carriage by Mr. Collins, and as they walked down the garden he was commissioning her with his best respects to all her family, not forgetting his thanks for the kindness he had received at Longbourn in the winter, and his compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, though unknown.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38

17  But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42