They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored.
Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.
If an angel out of heaven; Brings you other things to drink, Thank him for his kind attentions, Go and pour them down the sink.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
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