1 With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
2 The girls who had all known Charles were very kind and attentive to her at these gatherings, especially Fanny Elsing and Maybelle Merriwether, the daughters of the town dowagers.
3 She knew, by now, that Rhett loved to take her down a peg, and would spoil her fun whenever he could, if she lent an attentive ear to his jibes.
4 Rhett lent an attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy's remarks about the proper raising of little girls.
5 She had never seen him so alert, so responsive, so attentive to what she had to say.
6 She was silent, raw with the shameful thought that the attentive circle might have been criticizing her, laughing at her.
7 In panic she insisted on being attentive to Kennicott, when he wanted to be left alone to read the newspaper.
8 Leaning over in his hammock, Queequeg long regarded the coffin with an attentive eye.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin. 9 She slept lightly at first, half awake and drowsily attentive to the things about her.
10 She went down and led them out of the sun, scolding the quadroon for not being more attentive.
11 Heyward paused, for he knew not how to construe the remarkable expression that gleamed across the swarthy features of the attentive Indian.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 12 They were attentive but silent observers of the proceedings of the vanquished, failing in none of the stipulated military honors, and offering no taunt or insult, in their success, to their less fortunate foes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 13 A few had straggled among the conquered columns, where they stalked in sullen discontent; attentive, though, as yet, passive observers of the moving multitude.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 14 Recovering his recollection on the instant, instead of sounding an alarm, which might prove fatal to himself, he remained stationary, an attentive observer of the other's motions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 15 Duncan complied; and the Mohican, who had been an attentive listener to the discourse, readily undertook the office.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22