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 Current Search - attention in Brave New World
1  halted and, bending over one of the little beds, listened attentively.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter II
2  A nurse rose as they entered and came to attention before the Director.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter II
3  Hardly less flattering had been the attentions paid her by conspicuous individuals.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI
4  He paid no attention to her calling, but ran on, away, away, anywhere to be by himself.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII
5  Their attention was now focussed on the black cash-box, which the young man had placed on the table, and was now in process of unlocking.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV
6  'though I must admit,' he read, 'that I agree with the Savage in finding civilized infantility too easy or, as he puts it, not expensive enough; and I would like to take this opportunity of drawing your fordship's attention to.'
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI
7  In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.
Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III