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The food of course was what enticed—that and my parents' undivided atten-tion these being the days before iPhones and BlackBerrys—but there was something else as well that captured my imagination: the theater of it all.

Stew's Spring Awakening Aleksandra Crapanzano 2011

Her atten-tion was shifting back and forth between the session taking place below and the two men responsible for its direction.

The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

Elizabeth, however, seemed sunk in her own thoughts and contributed nothing. hen the desserts arrived and the older ladies shifted their atten-tion to the creme anglaise and poached pears.

The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004

His father's personal papers, however, had required more careful and personal atten-tion and there were some things he simply hadn't been able to throw away.

A Secret Vengeance Lee, Miranda 2001

Could it be that after so many years as the center of atten-tion she was jealous?

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

But their father thought it best to keep away from the crowd, so they turned their atten-tion to the Lion.

The Third Reader, Designed for the Use of Primary Schools, Adelaide de Vendel 1864

If I had gotten a second bill, it probably would have gotten my atten-tion.

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