As soon as the curtain rose, the company in the pit became tolerably quiet, and much more attentive than those in the boxes; the latter appearing to take more interest in conversation with their acquaintances than in the performance.
His attentive auditory have accurately retained his instructions, and converse with wonderful facility on the characteristics and customs of different nations.
Thus invited, Bert proceeded to tell after his own fashion the doings of the day, with his father and mother an attentive audience.
At home that evening Bert recounted his experiences to three very attentive listeners, and his face grew very grave when he came to tell what Ernest had said about the "hoisting.
And so Mr. Bowser, putting aside all foolish notions about pride or self-importance, became one of the most faithful and attentive attendants of the Bible class.
The hermit, very attentive and courteous, paid them great honor, embracing them all and begging them to sit on the grass near him.
While the emperor was talking, Tirant's ears were attentive to what he was saying, but his eyes were contemplating the great beauty of Carmesina.
For months he was a great sufferer, and Comrades Sweeney and Lyle were attentive to his wants and ministered comfort and aid to him.
McCalmont was a number one soldier and was attentive and obedient to every call to duty.
In this period of social life the commonalty are always cunningly attentive to their own interest; but their faculties, confined to a few objects, are so narrowed, that they cannot discover it in the general good.
She insisted on a trial, and soon acquired a remarkable knack: she had a fine light hand: and it is an art easily learned by an attentive and careful woman.
An attentive glance at the past has been, in all ages and in all countries, the infallible means of rightly appreciating the present.
Accordingly, Madame de Laplace, who is so justly, so profoundly attentive to every circumstance calculated to enhance the renown of the name which she bears, did not hesitate about pecuniary considerations.
Science knows in the present day that seventy-five moons would be necessary to form a weight equivalent to that of the terrestrial globe, and it is indebted for this result to anattentive and minute study of the oscillations of the ocean.
We shall deduce new proofs of this mysterious result from an attentive examination of the size of plants.
I may even remark, that after this brutal disruption he showed himself more attentive than ever to seize opportunities of paying a legitimate homage to the talents and eloquence of the French Pliny.
My neighbour, with attentive ear, with immovable eyes, and with outstretched neck, listened to this recital with the liveliest interest.
The first care required of the commissioners was, not to be too attentive to what was passing within them.
I must say that no officers could have been more zealous, close, and attentive to their important duties than they have been.
Had they been more exemplary in morals, or more attentive to duty, or more patient under suffering?
Mr. Haye has been very attentive to me, and I believe would really like to renew his old offer.
Mr. Haye has been very attentiveand kind, and the Chancellor has shewn himself very friendly.
He would sit poised and grimly attentive like a man judiciously enduring the presence of blasphemy but under great emotional strain.
Despite his aversion to sex, (she did not think of it as an aversion but as a high-mindedness,) he was yet very attentive to women.
Candles guttered, or went out, and kept the attentive sextons busy tiptoeing about, snuffing or relighting them.
Harry's lips, as the criminals, moved by the affecting picture, gather upon the veranda, and stand attentive listeners.
Shake one and it awakens; then apply Its polished lip to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
He surpassed in form, strength, and address all the noble youths his companions; he failed not to be present at all tourneys; he was attentive to the elder knights, and burned with impatience to imitate them.
Baldwin was attentive to Charlot, and lost no occasion to be serviceable.
They wore an attentive aspect, but offered to take no active part in the scene enacted before them.
Job Grinnell, who had listened with an attentive ear to the talk of the children, had nevertheless continued his constant skimming of the scum.
Perhaps the secret of his preference lay in the fact that they made more attentive and sympathetic listeners than his rough boy-friends.
The church was surrounded by gownsmen of all degrees, who stood attentive at the windows during my sermon.
Preached, this morning at eight o'clock, to a veryattentive auditory.
Immediately after dinner, I read prayers and preached in the church, to a mixed but thronged and attentive congregation.
When I heard so many were concerned for their eternal welfare, I appointed a lecture on Wednesday evening, though it was not the usual season; and, though the warning was short, we had a numerous and attentive audience.
Read prayers and preached twice in the church, to very large and attentive congregations.
He speaks of the Room of the Baldwin Street Society, together with the stairs and the court below, being crowded with people, profoundly attentive and powerfully affected.
Here he spent Sunday, December 3, and preached twice in Clayton's church, to thronged and attentive congregations, and assisted six more clergymen in administering the sacrament to three hundred communicants.
Soon after this, I read prayers and preached at Newgate, to a large and very attentive congregation.
Preached in the evening at Kennington Common, to about fifteen thousand people, who were very attentive and affected.
Leaning over in his hammock, Queequeg long regarded the coffin with an attentive eye.
No sooner do they hear the sound of the bell than they all fly to hear the Christian religion explained, and listen to the preacher with attentive ears.
The lies of a crafty juggler, the dreams of a foolish old woman, listened to with attentive ears, are more than enough to make them swear that the devil is their grandfather, or any thing still more absurd.
No suspicions were ever after entertained of him, though I inspected all things with a vigilant eye and anattentive ear.
Old Ham was so attentive and kind that no one asked him as to his whereabouts during the battle.
Had he been more attentive to his duties, we might have believed he sought to soothe by religion poor Mary's sufferings, but we know such was not his wont.
Where can I find a nurse so tender, affectionate, and attentive as you are?
The others wereattentive and curious as to what would come next.
Certainly the English offer more peculiarities to the attentive observer than any other nation.
The students appeared quite as attentive as if they had had the room to themselves.
Her son and a kind-hearted stewardess were very attentive to her, and it was much to be wished that she had been satisfied with their assiduities.
When she made him his tea, she wasattentive and womanly; when she read aloud to him, she read intelligently; and in the reciting of the few lessons she did with her father, there was always no fault to find.
