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Attentive

adjective

(often followed by 'to') giving care or attention. "The nurse was attentive to her patient" , "An attentive suitor"

Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention. Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful. "So heedful a writer" , "Heedful of what they were doing"

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"Attentive" Quotes from Famous Books

... any supper. I've got a pain. Oh dear!" Ephraim writhed, with attentive eyes upon his mother; he was like an executioner turning an emotional thumbscrew on her. But Deborah Thayer's emotions sometimes presented steel surfaces. "You can have a pain, then," said she. "I ain't goin' to let you go to ruin because you ain't well, not if I know it. You've got to mind, ...

— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... craft, untiringly attentive to the working of his numerous self-recording instruments, observing all changes with scientific acumen, doing the work of two observers at least and yet ever seeking to correlate an expanded scope. So the ...

— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott

... I was anxiously attentive to his demeanour, and, as soon as I perceived his purpose to depart, leaped on my feet to prevent it. I took his hand, and, affectionately pressing it, said, "Do you not know me? Have you so soon forgotten me, who ...

— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown

... of the party uttered exclamations in various keys, while the men looked attentive and interested. All that Mr. Henniker pleased to say was wont to command attention, in Dublin ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 • Various

... were thus revealed to the attentive Undine, but she was beginning to think that her sad proficiency had been acquired in vain when her hopes were revived by the appearance of Mr. Popple and his friend at the Stentorian dance. She thought she had learned enough to be safe from any risk of repeating the hideous Aaronson mistake; ...

— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

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