In timehow many thousands of years, I know notI attained to some degree of quietudesufficient to enable me to pay attention to what was transpiring around me.

St. Eloy tells his people plainly, that whoever pays attention to what he meets at his first going out or coming in, or to any particular voice, or to the chirping of a bird, is so far a Pagan.

"I have seenwhat?" asked Ida, trying to rouse herself and to pay attention to what he was saying.

The other Middle Lotters had not paid attention to what was going on.

Then, when they were out of earshot of the land, he bade Hayle pay attention to what he had to say.

Still, like Coleridge and Robert Hall, he preached rather than conversed, thinking what he himself should say rather than paying attention to what others said, except to combat and rebuke them,a discourser, as Macaulay was; not one to suggest interchange of ideas, as Addison did.

Had Castlereagh paid attention to what was going forward in Germany in 1805, he would have seen too that of all powers Prussia was the very last who with any shadow of justice could pretend to an indemnification at the expense of Saxony.

I could hardly pay attention to what the Marquis, who sat next me, was saying, the sight was so new and entertaining.

Even Victorine's aggressive joy at having caught him was damped when she could not get him to pay attention to what she was saying.

Yes, sir; one that looks out sharp, and tries to think, and pays attention to what is said to him; and then you would say he was an acute child.

So they determined that One-Eye should go with the maiden when she drove the goat to the meadow and pay attention to what passed, and observe whether any one brought her to eat or to drink.

Roland Ditson attempted to argue on two or three occasions in favor of Gordon, but nobody paid attention to what he said, for it was known that he had tried by every possible means to injure Merriwell and had been exposed in a contemptible piece of treachery, so that no one cared to be known as his friend and associate.

Edred set up a sort of provincial government over Northumberland, the refractory district, and sent a governor and garrison there to see that the Danes paid attention to what he said.

Mr. Burke (of S.C.) thought gentlemen were paying attention to what did not deserve it.

Mr. BURKE (of S.C.) thought gentlemen were paying attention to what did not deserve it.

Mr. Burke (of S.C.) thought gentlemen were paying attention to what did not deserve it.

Mr. BURKE (of S.C.) thought gentlemen were paying attention to what did not deserve it.

"In a way they do; they pay attention to what I say, but they give me an awfully small salary.

For, if you raise an uproar, you will fail of obtaining some perhaps very useful suggestion which you might have heard, but if you pay attention to what is said you will be sure to discover definitely something to your advantage.

She hardly pays attention to what people say to her.

[Illustration] One day, when there was a good deal of kicking, my mother whinnied to me to come to her, and then she said: "I wish you to pay attention to what I am going to say.

Don't pay attention to what I say, Mrs. Paige.

Mrs. Shutterfield took us into a little parlor on one side of the hall, and then we three sat down, and I must say I was so busy looking at the queer, delightful room, with everything in itchairs, tables, carpets, walls, pictures, and flower-vasesall belonging to a bygone epoch, though perfectly fresh, as if just made, that I could scarcely pay attention to what the lady said.