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Example sentences for "heeded"

Lexicographically close words:
heead; heeads; heeard; heed; heede; heedest; heedeth; heedful; heedfully; heedfulness
  1. I told him it would be your ruin; but none of those people heeded the old soldier.

  2. Poor Helen heeded it not, however; she took no notice of the cold and the wet.

  3. He was still kneeling, when he heard steps in the chapel; but he heeded not; and still he went on murmuring in a low tone the words of penitence and supplication.

  4. In places the descent was so abrupt that I had to turn and crawl down, steadying myself with my hands and knees; but I heeded nothing in my frantic eagerness to escape and gain the dreaded Land of the Myriad Mysteries.

  5. She felt not fatigue; though her weary pinions sometimes faltered, still she heeded it not, still struggling on, eager to reach where he lay dying.

  6. She heeded not that the valleys were still shrouded in mist, or that the cold grey dawn yet lingered in the skies; was not her sunshine coming?

  7. Far below them gleamed the towers of Constantinople with the golden cross on their summits, but Barbarossa heeded them not.

  8. There were light footsteps behind her, but Gela, lost in sorrow and prayer, heeded them not.

  9. Her white foot was covered by the water, but she heeded it not; her eye gazed fixedly on the treasure for which she had longed unceasingly in life, and which now hovered close to her feet in the dancing waves.

  10. Men fell on their knees; the monks alone heeded not the voice of the Almighty.

  11. While he sang, Nanny and Jim sat a little way off, one hemming a pocket-handkerchief, and the other reading a story to her, but they never heeded Diamond.

  12. Here have I stood and called and bawled for a hundred years, and no one has heeded me but you.

  13. Here have I stood and called and bawled for a hundred years, but no one has ever heeded me but you.

  14. Here have I stood a hundred years calling and bawling, and thinking how I should ever get over this water; but no one has ever heard or heeded but you, and you shall be well paid, if you will put me over to the other side.

  15. There were moments when she scarcely heeded what he said, so intent was she in the enjoyment of the assurance that he was really once more at her side.

  16. None heeded the earthquake in all those joyous streets.

  17. But they heeded the warning Toby had borrowed from the Indians, and practicing self-denial ate sparingly, though often.

  18. There was never a word of reproach from Toby for not having heeded his advice, and for this Charley was grateful.

  19. Meanwhile the romantic appeal of Nature, first heeded on a trip to Würzburg, and the romantic lure of travel, drew the dreamer irresistibly away from his desk.

  20. Both partners might well have heeded Levana's counsel that "Men should show more love, women more common sense.

  21. Out of doors, the gleaming vapor of the departed sun was encircling the earth, the evening-star was glittering over parsonage and churchyard; no one heeded it.

  22. No one heeded him; in the mêlée he had lost his turban, by which he was usually known, and he became undistinguishable to his soldiery from one of themselves.

  23. At the point where the river Madoor crosses the road to Bangalore there is a good deal of thick jungle, but they heeded not the pass, though it was noted for robbers; they were too formidable a party to be attacked.

  24. It was in vain that the Nair stormed, nay raved, in his own tongue: who heeded him?

  25. The old lady heeded not that her veil had dropped from her face; there was but one object which occupied her vision of the many that were before her eyes, and that was the martial figure of her son as it rapidly disappeared before her.

  26. Kasim heeded not the pain he suffered, he felt as though his heart were bursting; and throwing himself beside the body, wept passionately.

  27. A shower of balls met him, but he heeded them not: he was maddened, and could see or feel only his own revenge.

  28. But he spoke to one who heeded not his words—they hardly fell upon his ear.

  29. The King issued a royal proclamation which was heeded by the electors, and as a result of which more moderate men were sent to the succeeding Parliament.

  30. Victor Emmanuel heeded the words of his old counselor, recalled Cavour to office, and allowed the bill, practically as at first presented, to become law.

  31. Little they heeded the words she said, Little they cared for her haughty tread, For maidens and warriors and chieftain knew That her lips were false and her charge untrue.

  32. Now open thine ear to my voice, and thy heart to the wish of thy father, And long will Winona rejoice that she heeded the words of Ta-té-psin.

  33. But the men heeded the women not at all, or seemed, in their bitter wrath, to know that they were there.

  34. After this manner spake the agitators for many days unto the people, and none heeded them, but it was so that after a time the people hearkened.

  35. No one heard me, or, if they heard, heeded me.

  36. Here I met more company; but no one heeded me much, especially when it was seen that my turnips were a poor sort, and that he who had charge of them was but a slip of a boy, with not a word to say to any one.

  37. His soul was pre-occupied, and he scarcely heeded them a moment after they had been spoken.

  38. And after they did enter into that building they did point the finger of scorn at me and those that were partaking of the fruit also; but we heeded them not.

  39. I heeded not the gay smiles and free merriment of those around me.

  40. With a vague remorse atoning for her greed and long abuse, By care no longer heeded and pity too late for use.

  41. If it cannot see what goes wrong and cannot get itself heeded when it commands, the nation likewise is both blind and dumb.

  42. It should be remarked in this connection, moreover, that much as Congress talks about fiscal questions, whenever permitted to do so by the selfish Appropriations Committee, its talk is very little heeded by the big world outside its halls.

  43. Foul I would be, and foul I am, as an Irishwoman said to me once; and little I heeded it.

  44. He passed great shoals of bass and mullet, leaping and rushing in after the shrimps, but he never heeded them, or they him; and once he passed a great black shining seal, who was coming in after the mullet.

  45. But Tom never heeded them, being quite riotous with high spirits and good luck, till, one Friday morning early, Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid came indeed.

  46. We bumped over cobble stones and across tram lines, little heeded by the numbers of bicyclists, both men and women, riding about in every direction, for Finland was in the forefront in the vogue for bicycle-riding.

  47. That the pair were in love no one could for a moment doubt, and that they heeded nothing of those quaint old Finnish chants, distinctly audible from the opposite carriage, was evident, for they talked on and on.

  48. Had they heeded Oomah without delay it would have been different.

  49. The other flesh-eating animals also heeded it.

  50. He heeded neither the cry nor the movement among those up above, who parted, allowing the two women to pass.

  51. I abandoned all religious practices and heeded not the scandal I gave.

  52. There he met the meek, the gentle Eve; she tended her sheep, she ever neglected self; she never heeded pelf, yet she heeded the shepherds even less.

  53. But the squire, in his delight, neither heeded nor noticed.

  54. Hours passed on, but she heeded them not, as, seated on a low rock, with her hands clasped over her knees, she waited for his coming.

  55. She heeded it not, as, bending all her energies to the task of guiding her frail bark through the tempestuous billows, she bent her whole strength to the oars.


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