In a heedful way

Usage examples of attentively.

She listened attentively to my advice as to her conduct towards her new lover and the world in general, and promised to follow it.

But if we attentively reflect how much swifter is the progress of corruption than its cure, and if we remember that the years abandoned to public disorders exceeded the months allotted to the martial reign of Aurelian, we must confess that a few short intervals of peace were insufficient for the arduous work of reformation.

Ali Mevlevi listened attentively while appraising his chief of internal security.

For the meat eaters, a number of giant baloneys were set to roasting whole on spits, to be turned and attentively basted with a grape-jelly glaze by once-quarrelsome kitchen staff while others made croutons from old bread, bustling about while the spinach thawed, singing along with the radio, which someone had mercifully re-tuned to a rock and roll station.

Twice a day Captain Barker visited his nursery and studied him attentively.

At the close of the third week Berry laid a pair of letters, bearing the Raynham post-mark, on the breakfast-table, and, after reading one attentively, the baronet asked his son if he was inclined to quit the metropolis.

After considering him attentively, I recognized in him a diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works, which bustled off well with the trade.

As the young stranger ate of the rude fare Malemute Kid attentively studied his face.

I watched him rather attentively while Miss Matty listened to the shopman.

When he went to university, usually - mostly on his way home - he happened, perhaps about a hundred times, to stop just at this very place, to gaze attentively at this truly splendid panorama and each time to be almost surprised at the vague and puzzling impression it made on him.

I noticed that Guinalle spent the trip deep in conversation with Usara, doubtless swapping theories on magic, with Parrail hovering attentively at her elbow while Temar looked on with no small measure of annoyance.

But when she looked out on the gallery and saw the two black children, both of them barefoot, bending down attentively on each side of Flower while she showed them how to print their names in chalk on the piece of slate, Abigail felt a prescience about the future that was more optimistic than any she had experienced in years.

They attentively listened to the groans and cries of wild beasts, and prognosticated from them, and believed in witchcraft.

This he put in the post-box, and then, going to a secretaire, he unlocked it, and taking out a document he began to puzzle over it attentively.

He read it attentively, sitting down absent-mindedly, a big man with natural presence and unextended power.