The rabbit, on the other hand, is born with closed eyes, and requires the constant attention of the mother for some time.
The slightest noise--the wind rustling in the leaves, a falling leaf--suffices to excite its attention and awaken it from sleep.
Then," he continued, "the Virginia ladies look as if they could not push about for themselves, and for this reason I always feel like giving them more attention than the other passengers.
An occasional visit to Richmond or Petersburg sometimes animated her with a desire for some style of dress less antique than her own, although she had as much admiration and attention as if she had just received her wardrobe from Paris.
With an excellent education, a fine person, frank and gentle demeanour, he made his way into the city, and soon attracted the attention of those who affect to grace polished society.
The woman has drawn his attention from his adversaries, when, in that which seems a propitious moment, they rush down from the walls, and ere a cry from his band warn him of the danger, have well nigh surprised and secured him.
If he pays more attentionto Ellen at times, take no notice of it.
His simple nature recoils at the idea of dispensing with the attention due from slave to master.
Colonel M'Carstrow-his mind, for the time, absorbed in the charms of his young bride-gives little attention to the matter.
She would invite him to her father's house, sit for hours at his side, and listen with breathless attention to his pathos, his display of natural genius.
All attention being directed to it, the first candidate, Colonel Mohpany, mounts the stump, places his right hand in his bosom, and pauses as if to learn who it brings.
Gentlemen, hats off, and give yourattention to Mr. General O'Brodereque's remarks!
No one discovers that he has, by a very dexterous movement, slipped a set of false dice into the box, while O'Brodereque diverted attention at the moment by introducing the pony into the saloon.
Their attention seems rivetted to his words; the more vicious, as he looks through grated bars upon them, whispers words of respect.
And, too, Marston's mansion was the pleasant retreat of many a neighbour, whose visits were welcomed by the kindly attention he had taught his domestics to bestow.
All attention is now directed to the children; they sit pensively, unconscious of the dread fate hanging over them.
All attention is now directed to the wounded man, who, it is found, although he has bled freely of good red blood, is neither fatally nor seriously wounded.
Discoveries followed so fast as to draw public attention at home and abroad.
Presently the guide calls our attention to the exit of the Corkscrew, on our left, an extraordinary passageway by which we are to return after visiting the River Hall.
The effect in general, however, is to divert attention from the natural attractions.
In the vicinity of Mammoth Cave are several that have celebrity, and would amply reward the attention of a visitor.
He would fain have taken no notice, and plunged with his companions into the coming wave, in hopes that others would do the same, and every one's attention be withdrawn.
Her attentionwas now transferred entirely to the rival, and he found himself nowhere.
He just looks steadily past me, as if his attention was fixed on what went on at the table behind.
How comfortable, when one grows elderly and uninteresting, to be wife of the chief-justice, or of a senator, and receive as much attention in old age as one has been accustomed to in youth!
She did not mean to offend you, I am sure; though perhaps she is a little spoilt by all the attention she receives.
If a gentleman was warranted "nice," she did not object to his paying attention to her girls, but she wanted assurance of the niceness.
A great crowd of Abyssinians watched me as I got up in the morning and performed my toilet: what seemed to excite their attention most was the operation of washing my teeth with a tooth-brush and some charcoal.
The true function of the chemist in his general relation to the diet question is to help the coming dietary by transferring to the vegetarian system some of the scientific attention that has hitherto been solely devoted to flesh meats.
That is the amount of attention the moral side of vegetarianism receives from its opponents, a great humane issue being set aside by a sophism more suited for a Savoy comedy than for serious discussion.
Our horses claimed our undivided attentiontill after we had dismounted and put them aboard the cars.
Taylor trotted off, pleased to get away from the officer, who next turned hisattention to Hom.
As near as I could judge, not having paid much attention to the points of the compass, there was trouble somewhere in the vicinity of the turnpike where we had parted with the Confederates.
In a few seconds he had jumped over the fence to where his horse was standing, and without paying any attention to my shouts for him to "stop or drop that goose," the blue-coated robber put spurs to his steed and disappeared down the road.
Yet he did it unconsciously, as he said when his attention was called to it by a corporal, and only intended to emphasize the interdiction.
Then we were turned over to a corporal, who marched us to the quartermaster's office where we stood at attention for an hour or so while the requisition for our uniforms was going through the red-tape channels.
When his attention was called to the fact that his carbine was not loaded, he said: "Well, I could have speared one of them with my sword before they could all get away.
I wish they paid more attention to it; but people seldom do attend to things within their province.
He drew back and made a number of casts, but the fish paid no attention to his flies, and after he had faithfully whipped the pool for some time, he made up his mind that the fish would not bite.
While he was there, his attention was attracted by a dipper flying across the water and, presently, he saw that on a little shelf of rock, almost directly below the falls, the bird had a nest formed of green moss.
In most places it was easy going, and in the snow banks, which they were constantly crossing, fresh tracks of goats were seen, but the travelers paid no attention to these and kept on their way as fast as possible.
The people playing at the various tables and those overlooking the game paid no attention to them.
The birds were absolutely tame and paid no attentionto the animals, except when they walked close to them; then a few wing beats would take the threatened bird out of the horse's way, and it would alight and again begin to feed.
An Indian reservation is a great place for getting up kicks and complaints, and I suppose that maybe those people in Washington are so used to hearing complaints that they don't pay much attention to them.
It paid no attention whatever, but went on eating.
They paid no attention to him until he was within three or four yards, and then one of those on the ground appeared to notice him and stretched out its neck to look at him.
Joe called the attention of the others to this, saying, "Don't it look nice down there?
Nobody paid the slightest attentionto his remark, because the whole family thought that Buster was not only fat and lazy, but somewhat stupid as well.
He didn't wish to draw attention to himself by singing, because he didn't care to be gobbled up by any bird, no matter how handsome or hungry the bird might be.
That young lady needs noattention from you, nor will she require any explanation.
Her farmers have rights denied to ours; her representatives occupy almost entirely the attention of Parliament.
Undoubtedly one of the healthiest signs of the times is the attention paid by the modern Christian to that wonderful temple of ours, the human body, fashioned, as we would fain believe, in the Divine image by an Almighty power.
I thought you were too deep in the study of French literature to pay any attention to such trifles.
At the breakfast table the next morning the Judge paid no attention to Howard, though he knew that his departure was to take place that day.
The old gentleman paid no attention to Howard, but warmly shook hands with Bradley, as if he had not seen him only a few hours before.
Howard called attention to the fact that the sandwiches were thin and that the coffee looked pale.
Why should you desire my permission since you would pay no attention to my refusal?
Even he, Maseden, had not scrupled to use that gentleman at sight when anxious to board the Southern Cross without attracting the attention of the news-mongering boatmen of Cartagena.
That he should display close-cropped hair instead of an abundance of oiled and curly tresses was a fact singular enough in itself, without inviting attention by the use of soap and water.
After the fame of the Reformers had waned Switzerland drew the attention of all Europe to her cities again by the writings of Rousseau and Voltaire, the chief makers, I should say, of the French Revolution.
There he turned hisattention to the abuses of the Church, and his reforming sermons soon attracted wide attention.
Switzerland each year attracts more and more the attention of sociologists.
If he confines his attention to a single range of mountains such as the Alps, he is almost always in sight of mountains he has climbed and glaciers he has traversed.
The famous Blumenbach [1] has directed attention to the differences presented by the form and the dimensions of human crania of different races.
As a literary study the book incites interest, and commands attention as a further revelation of a brilliant and many-sided literary genius.
Literature, Sociology, Art, Nature, all receive her attention in turn, and on each she stamps the impression of her own personality.
I pay no attention to the ridiculous suggestion that the delay was due to the contemporary peril in Poland, and to Thugut's anxiety to have Austrian troops in the east rather than on the western frontier.
The dread of criticism was endeavoured to be instilled into me, the difficulty of calling public attention was displayed to deter me, the slight foundation for my hopes of fame, the anxiety of suspense, and the bitterness of disappointment.
I followed at the same stealthy pace, and he seemed rather flattered than discomposed by the attention I gave to his movements.
The only attention they gave it was one vacant stare, which wandered heedlessly over the rich ornaments and the most magnificent combination of arches that architecture can produce--swore it was fine, very fine, and walked out.
The minute ornaments which are too small to distract the attention from general effect, give, by contrast, an additional vastness to the high pointed arches, and enormous columns.
I also take occasion to draw attention to the careful articles on this poem by Dr.
In the note to C 349, I have drawn attention to Heywood's close plagiarism from Chaucer, in the passage from the Four P.
Great attentionshould be paid to the exact sense of these apparently less important words.
If the reader finds the two forms of the Prologue troublesome, he has only to confine his attention to the 'B-text,' in the lower part of pp.
Mr. Brae well calls attention here to the absurd errors in the printed copies.
Tyrwhitt has drawn attention to the fact that a story, closely agreeing with the Man of Lawes Tale, is found in Gower's Confessio Amantis, Book II (ed.
Such usages have received careful attention in the present edition, and in almost every case the addition of a final e in an unexpected place can be amply justified by instances of Chaucer's usage in other passages.
The attention that might in this way be directed to the mode of affording relief would exercise so keen an influence in the reformation of abuses, and the adoption of improvements, that all our charities would soon become truly "public.
Grown people find it hard enough to fix their attention on the best advice or the most saving doctrine while they suffer involuntary hunger.
The objects which first strike the visitor's attention are a row of japanned tin candlesticks, meant for the use of the board at any of their Wednesday meetings which may be prolonged till after dusk.
Mr. Lee made an appropriate speech, and called attention to the gift, and pointed to the inscription; and it was quite an emphatic little observance for the inmates who had gathered in the hall on the occasion.
They have been passed over in silence, so we shall persist in calling attention to them, for they thoroughly deserve it).
I need not assure you that she is receiving, and will receive, every possible attention and luxury that money can command.
Moreover, I knew that the doctor was too fully occupied with his own fears concerning the man Capper to give much attention to anything else.
I now turned my attention to the wall itself, and found that it was recessed--much as though at some time or other it had been a window that had been bricked up.
He listened with deep attention until I had finished, and then for a minute or two he stood still, with his arms folded, evidently considering some point deeply.
Mr. Scoffold abruptly complied, by turning his attention to me, somewhat to my dismay.
Not wishing to attract attention in a place where, doubtless, the doctor was well known, I strolled out of the station into the quiet dusk of the summer evening, and took my way down into the village.
You were in the plot; you were to hold the attention of the girl while murder was done.
Chunerbutty, who seemed always to cling to her now with the persistence of a leech, had as usual been with her, but his attention had been distracted from her for a moment.
And so she bestowed more attention on him and studied his appearance more closely than she would otherwise have done.
Groups of natives crossed his path, shouting and leaping into the air excitedly, but they paid no attention to him.
But he paid as little attention to them as Badshah did, and turned just before the Dalehams' bungalow was lost to sight to wave a last farewell to the girl still standing on the verandah steps.
Dermot paid no attention to him but hastened on to intercept the elephant which stalked on with ears thrust forward and tail raised, ready to give battle to any one that dared stop him.
She felt that her partners must find her very stupid indeed, for she paid no attention to what they said and answered at random.
But attention was diverted when a planter cried: "Good Heavens!
Miss Boggs and Miss Prudence, clasping each other's hands, divided their attention between their corporeal and their incorporeal guests.
But Hoyt said to himself that it didn't concern him, and he therefore paid no attention to it.
In the beginning of his letter he calls attention to the fact that there are not many among them of those who were reckoned by the world's standards as wise or mighty or noble.
The call appealed to him and with good heart he prepared a special sermon, calling the attention of his people to the great need.
The leader of the three called the attention of his companions to the stranger.
He would very quietly note the calculations, and call attention to any inaccuracies.
Attention is directed to a strong helpful address on "Money," by Rev.
And out of this naturally grows (if one will give a little attention to good gardening rules) the habit of talking with Him all the time.
But it needs a lot of attention continually to keep a steady fire.
In Germany Marxian Socialism was already a force, and it was attracting attention in England, as we have seen.
It will not therefore be necessary to treat the later years with such attention to detail as has seemed appropriate to the earlier.
Then Mr. Tom Mann came back from Australia as the prophet of the new proletarian gospel, and for a few months attracted working-class attention by his energy and eloquence.
The Report attracted but little attention at the time, even in the Society itself, but it is in fact the first typically Fabian publication, and the first in which Sidney Webb took part.
Wells attracted much public attention to the Fabian Society, added greatly to its numbers, and for a time made it more of a popular institution than it had been before or has been since.
This was a subject to which the Society had given but little attention and on which it had not formulated a policy.
We wanted to make the working classes pay less attention to these party questions and more attention to their own social conditions.
Parish Council Cottages," issued in 1895, was almost the first publication drawingattention to the subject, and with one exception no use was made of these powers of the Act in rural districts before that year.
