Subsequently, with a fine air of unconcern, he inspected the view from the porch, which was, in fact, quite worthy of his attention.

The brilliant scornful figure of Petronius, a character admirably sustained throughout, rivets his attention from the first.

Alfred also gave his attention to the construction of a navy, as well as to the organization of an army, knowing that it was necessary to resist the Northmen on the ocean and prevent their landing on the coast.

He had put his kingdom in a state of defence, and now turned his attention to legislation,the supremest labor of an enlightened monarch.

Having been himself a victim of the law, his attention was first given to the drawing up of a decree, thus worded: "The notaries and public officers in general shall draw up legal documents which fall within their duty without charge.

Jim's question was indifferent, but from that instant his attention wandered.

A voice caught his attention and he glanced at a tall man telling a boat story.

His eyes had come back to her, and the look in them struck her as something she might use to her advantage; but the next moment he had glanced away with a furrowed brow, and she felt she had not wholly fixed his attention.

Wind-lover as he was, he could not spend a winter idly, and turned his attention to ice-boating.

He strolled leisurely around the corner long enough to give some directions to his two aides waiting there and then, moving across the street, paused in front of the window of books as if something there had attracted his attention.

He walked up and down the large drawing-room; he tried a thousand things, and could not fix his attention upon any.

When not away from the city lecturing, he spends a certain part of the day in his study at the church, where any one can see him on any matter which he may wish to bring to his attention.

That as there is always some reason of choice, that is sometimes to be preferred; which, sometimes; and who, sometimes: as, "It is not the man who has merely taught, or who has taught long, or who is able to point out defects in authors, that is capable of enlightening the world in the respective sciences which have engaged his attention; but the man who has taught well."Kirkham's Elocution, p. 7. OBS.

Bedient now placed the gun upon the table, and directed his attention to Framtree.

The wave broke with a heavy plash that attracted his attention: it was, indeed, that sound that had awakened him.

Next the clock engages his attention; it is ticking, and that seems to impress him as novel and curious.

All that occupies his attention is the kind of movement that his ship makes.

To turn his attention elsewhither and in hopes of deciding the French to quit Germany, the hereditary Prince of Brunswick attempted a diversion on the Lower Rhine; he laid siege to Wesel, whilst the English were preparing for a descent at Antwerp.

In this manner he passed several houses, and was on the point of turning into one which seemed to have an inviting look, when his attention was arrested by a lad who was running toward him from the rear.

It might be worth your while, right now, while your husband's memory is fresh upon the subject, to ask him what particular characteristics first won his attention, and what caused him to select you for a life companion.

He walked, a prey, to the saddest thoughts, from which the agents' cries hardly drew his attention.

Minorkey was devoutly thankful that his own daughter had escaped, and that he could go on getting mortgages with waivers in them, and Plausaby turned his attention to contrivances for extricating himself from the embarrassments of his situation.

An American artist, who had resided long in Italy and made a study of old pictures, caught sight at a shop-window in New Orleans of an "Ecce Homo" so pathetic in expression as to arrest his steps and engross his attention.

He now turned his attention to the wounded duck, which was swimming in a circle around his dead companion, as if perfectly bewildered.

Disregarding those curious spectators of his movements, he turned his attention eagerly to the inner casings of the hold, that seemed in one spot to have been strengthened by fresh timbers.