Citations:attendance

English citations of attendance

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• 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

  With this attendance and in this plentiful manner I lived; neither could I be said to want anything but society; and of that, some time after this, I was likely to have too much.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  At these moments I often endeavoured to put an end to the existence I loathed, and it required unceasing attendance and vigilance to restrain me from committing some dreadful act of violence.

• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his ladies.