To Gabrielle it was quite evident that the old keeper regarded the incident of the previous night as a fatal omen, for he was most solicitous of her welfare.
Then followed a hurried consultation, in which Krail showed himself most solicitous on my behalf," the pale-faced girl went on.
He bowed before me with a sort of solicitous curve to his broad shoulders, and the way he massaged one hand with the other had a highly soothing effect.
The solicitous curve had straightened out from his broad shoulders.
Imperceptibly his hands had resumed their massage, the solicitous curve had returned to his broad shoulders, his voice was ingratiating again.
No wonder that he was twenty pounds underweight or that his mother should be solicitousas to what might happen to her Jack in army life at the Border.
Most of them who were solicitousin this way were rather inclined to feel that their boy might not be able to stand up under the rigidities of military life and hoped at most that he would not be seriously harmed.
It is easy to understand what a favorable effect on a patient solicitous about a missed beat such a story as this will have.
A good many university men may suffer from what might be termed heart shock if they find any reason to be solicitous about their hearts.
Palpitation of the heart is scarcely more than a solicitous noting of the fact that the heart is beating.
For it must not be forgotten that in these cases a series of acts of solicitous attention has been performed which has created a habit that can only be overcome by the opposite habit.
As a consequence, they pay a great deal of attention to the matter and before long become so solicitous that the elimination of waste materials from the intestines is interfered with.
With sorrow, indeed, they watch them go, being solicitous for the youths, that God may bring them to their haven without accident and without peril.
When the kiss of the Stag was taken according to the custom of the country, Erec, like a polite and kind man, was solicitous for his poor host.
But before a single blow was dealt, the empress has herself borne thither, solicitous for Cliges' fate.
They were not solicitous for the vanities so much lived in by the people of this generation, for they pleased God by faith.
That the governors may be solicitous only for the interests of the governed, it is necessary that the interests of the governors and the governed should be the same.
Keep your supply pipes open by great faith in your Father-Mother-God, who is more solicitous for your welfare than any human parent could be.
At the time of his entry into the Hospital the Lieutenant was impressed with the belief that the illness would be his last, and he daily grew more solicitous as to the success of his application for a furlough.
His manner seemed nervous, his look doubly anxious; troubled in the present, and solicitous as to the future.
With countenance bathed in trouble did Montague return her solicitous glance, and speak.
Day by day the old slave seems to share the feelings of his master,--to exhibit a solicitousconcern for his comfort.
Franconia is the same fair creature Bob watched over when she visited the plantation: her countenance wears the same air of freshness and frankness; her words are of the same gentleness; she seems as solicitous of his comfort as before.
She prattles about Daddy Bob, Harry, Aunt Rachel, and old Sue, now and then adding a solicitous question about Marston.
The old slave, in return, lays her hand upon Annette's head, and smooths her hair, as if solicitous of her fate.
Such an idea put into words upon paper and advertised in so well-read a sheet as the "Boston Evening Post," must surely have impressed fathers and mothers really solicitous for the family welfare and anxious to provide harmless pleasure.
This is the reason why I have not been more solicitous to vary and heighten the descriptions of battles and other military operations.
Examples might perhaps be found for nearly all the instances in which I have indulged it, such as perisht, astonisht, tho I have not beensolicitous to seek them.
His mother is prompt to nourish him and solicitousin her care for him if he falls ill, but, as far as possible, she goes her own way and leaves the little fellow to go his.
His solicitous affection seemed continually to follow these boys, watching their movements and caring for their comfort.
The invalid is the object of the solicitous care of the family, friends, physician, and specialist.
Constipation has nothing to do with food or with water, but solicitous care about either can hardly fail to create the trouble which it tries to avoid.
Altogether, he is much less solicitous about gaining her predilection than about getting her for the lowest possible price.
A man appropriates a particular woman, not because he is solicitous for a monopoly of her chaste affections, but because he needs a drudge to cook and toil for him.
Though not the most ardent of lovers, he was one of the most punctilious of men, and appeared earnestly solicitous that his mission should be speedily and courteously executed.
But he was evidently most solicitous about the musical part of the service, keeping his eye fixed intently on the choir, and beating time with much gesticulation and emphasis.
Thinking that I now had him in a corner, and being solicitous for the literary fame of my country, I pressed him for his opinion on the merit of Dr.
When Sir Joshua observed to Johnson that he seemed very desirous to see Pope's note, he answered, 'Who would not be proud to have such a man as Pope so solicitous in inquiring about him?
Next morning he introduced me to Mrs. Lucy Porter, his step-daughter.
There is not one bad line in that poem; not one of Dryden's careless verses.
She was particularly solicitous with regard to the tutor to be chosen for her son Henry, and herself made a visit to the archbishop to confer upon the subject.
And this it is makes me solicitous to gain thy candid ear while I unfold my husband's plans.
But the police—always solicitous about the welfare of discharged prisoners—kept their eyes on him.
And the little Cherub who, from that elevated position, is solicitous concerning the well-being of poor Jack, will no doubt exhibit an equal solicitude in the case of poor Billy Bunting.
This applies surely to the over-solicitous attention paid by the traveler to the possible dangers of rail and sea.
Parents must also remember that over-solicitous attention on their part is bound to react to the disadvantage of the child.
It is my hope and belief that the over-solicitous individual will be influenced by reading these descriptions to adopt, of his own initiative, some of these suggestions.
I can: for I am not either a hardened or shameless creature: if I were, I should not have been so solicitous to obtain the favour I sued for.
Yet you are a noble creature to put it, as you put it-- I hope you are indeed more solicitous to get it revoked for their sakes than for your own.
It behoves me to leave behind me such an account as may clear up my conduct to several of my friends who will not at present concern themselves about me: and Miss Howe, and her mother, are very solicitous that I will do so.
The disgrace she cannot hide from herself, as she says in her letter to Lady Betty, she is not solicitous to conceal from the world!
I must be now solicitous for a last blessing; and that is all I shall presume to petition for.
I was told afterwards, that her laces had been cut, when she fainted away at her entrance into this cursed place; and she had not been solicitous enough about her dress to send for others.
Because Jehovah once fought for the Jews, we need not continue to say that the truth is solicitous about us, when it is only we that are fighting to attain it.
A deity not so much responsible for men's existence or situation as solicitous for their welfare, who pitied a weakness he could not have intended and was pleased by a love he could not command, might appropriately be called a father.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solicitous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
