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  • "Attentions delivered upon a female slave, " I said, -having primarily to do with her training.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • So one of the things that came about to this, we started doing this work, I started doing this work in 2004 here at the Center — doing very simple, very primitive maps as something called the Global Attentions Profile project.

    Introducing Media Cloud: A new tool to track how news gets covered » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

  • NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren.

    Reflections on Independence, Volume 5 2007

  • I told her a cautionary tale, about a girl I know who was stalked by an over-enthusiastic meeticboy, who bombarded her with texts, emails and calls when she declined to see him for a second date, until finally a male friend was drafted in to warn Mr Unwanted Attentions off, for good.

    dislocated 2006

  • I told her a cautionary tale, about a girl I know who was stalked by an over-enthusiastic meeticboy, who bombarded her with texts, emails and calls when she declined to see him for a second date, until finally a male friend was drafted in to warn Mr Unwanted Attentions off, for good.

    mythique 2006

  • French call les Attentions, is a most necessary ingredient in the art of pleasing; they flatter the self-love of those to whom they are shown; they engage, they captivate, more than things of much greater importance.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Such was the Press of the Mob around them that the Men feared for their Safety, and thus presented their Weapons, in hopes of discouraging the raucous Attentions rained upon them.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • Attentions of this sort, Mrs. Pryor would not have accepted from everyone: in general, she recoiled from touch or close approach, with a mixture of embarrassment and coldness far from flattering to those who offered her aid: to Miss

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Her Attentions to Mr. Izzards Family and to me, were very particular, and the reason she assigned for it, to other Persons, was that she understood We were domestic

    John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

  • Pop-up large image the Attentions which had been shewn me from my first landing at

    John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

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