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Then, feeling easier, I resumed my coat, which I had laid aside, and proceeded to attend to one or two matters before returning to the tower.
" The line about the table broke suddenly, attended with a scraping of chairs and after-dinner chirrupings attended with toothpicks.
Officers, middies and crew attended on board each vessel.
The convention which he was attending at the time of the accident was being held at a cross-road tavern called "Sherman's," about a mile away.
Arthur Weldon had not been very enthusiastic about the paper at any time, although he humored the girls by attending in a good-natured way to the advertising, hiring some of the country folk to get subscriptions, and keeping the books.
" We embarked in the balloon, attended as on our last journey by two of the brethren in my employment, both, I noticed, armed with the lightning gun.
A school district that was able to support a school for six months in each year was indeed considered fortunate, but even in these the older children were not permitted to attend during the summer months, as their services were considered indispensable in the cultivation of the soil.
This polytheism of Greece was exceedingly complicated, but was not so degrading as that of Egypt, since the gods were not represented by the forms of hideous animals, and the worship of them was not attended by revolting ceremonies; and yet it was divested of all spiritual aspirations, and had but little effect on personal struggles for truth or holiness.
Lord ISLAY next spoke to the effect following:My lords, I have attended for a long time to the noble lord, not without some degree of uneasiness, as I think the manner in which he has treated the question neither consistent with the dignity of this assembly, nor with those rules which ought to be ever venerable, the great rules of reason and humanity.
They were likewise attended from morning till night by a number of handsome servants.
The king, who, following the example of Louis XIV., acted on these occasions as his own master of ceremonies, was forced to send special and personal orders to some of those who had absented themselves to attend without delay.
How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from heaven He descended, And became a child like thee!
"Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
I saw two men attend like holy hermits; One's slipp'd away, the other's at his beads.
This plan will be attended of course with some trouble and expense.
Bethink you, good Sir William, I reckon thereabout myself; so by that account There's full three winters yet he must attend Under our awe, before he sue his livery: Is it not so? WIL.
He preached with success, for the Prince desired to hear him a second time, and was so well pleased with him, that he signified an inclination of having him attend about his court.
These meetings were even more numerously attended after his return from Boston than they were before he was summoned to the bar of the General Assembly; for persecution and injustice naturally recoil on the perpetrators of it, and the victim of such harsh measures is sure to gain friends and supporters among the warm-hearted and the generous.
At Christ's Hospital, where he was brought up, he was the idol of those among his schoolfellows, who mingled with their bookish studies the music of thought and of humanity; and he was usually attended round the cloisters by a group of these (inspiring and inspired) whose hearts, even then, burnt within them as he talked, and where the sounds yet linger to mock ELIA on his way, still turning pensive to the past!
In the first chapter of "Amos Barton," Shepperton Church is that at Chilvers Colon, which she attended throughout her childhood.
But now the burning candle in the hands of the attendant, and a certain similarity between the doctor's name and the name of a man whose trial for arson I once attended out of idle curiosity, led me to imagine that in some way I had been connected with that crime.
A few months later there came from the north a company of missionary teachers and opened a school which I attended until 1867.
I then awoke Camilla, and told her to dress herself and attend before the magistrate.
Holy personages, admitted to a communion with her, attend around her, rather sympathizing than adoring.
It was the first service in over two years which I had not attended against my will.