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Attentively in sentence

119 examples of Attentively in a sentence

Felton offered the weapon to Milady, who examined the temper of it attentively, and who tried the point on the tip of her finger.
When this work was ended my uncle tore the paper from me and examined it attentively for a long time.
My uncle questioned Hans, who, after having examined attentively with the eye of a huntsman, replied:"_Der huppe!_""Up there."
Listening more attentively, I heard in reality a murmuring of voices.
Then, seizing his glass, he gazes attentively for a minute, which seems to me an age.
He heard her attentively, and then said:"Lydia will never be easy until she has exposed herself in some public place or other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present circumstances."
She listened most attentively to all that passed between them, and gloried in every expression, every sentence of her uncle, which marked his intelligence, his taste, or his good manners.
cried the sailor; "these will do instead of eggs!""They are not mussels," replied Herbert, who was attentively examining the molluscs attached to the rocks; "they are lithodomes."
Pencroft listened more attentively, and really thought he heard, during a lull, distant barking.
Cyrus Harding reflected a few minutes; he attentively observed the perimeter of the island, taking into consideration the height at which he was placed; then,--"My friends," said he, "I do not think I am mistaken in giving to the shore of the island a circumference of more than a hundred miles."
Pencroft looked attentively at the plant, covered with long silky hair, the leaves being clothed with soft down.
It was impossible to think of those animals in an alimentary point of view, for their oily flesh is detestable; however, Cyrus Harding observed them attentively, and without making known his idea, he announced to his companions that very soon they would pay a visit to the islet.
But the engineer did not reply to the sailor except by proposing to examine the cliff more attentively, from the mouth of the river to the angle which terminated it on the north.
Several times the settlers stopped on the bank, and observed it attentively.
The lad looked attentively.
Cyrus Harding and his companions looked attentively around them, and examined the shore for several hundred steps.
The settlers then approached the ape and gazed at it attentively.
Cyrus Harding had attentively observed him.
From thence he very attentively examined the vessel, which was at a distance of twenty miles to the east.
A few more on the poop; two others posted in the shrouds, and armed with spyglasses, were attentively surveying the island.
Spilett, seeing there was nothing he could do at that moment, busied himself in preparing some nourishment, while attentively watching that part of the enclosure against the hill, at which an attack might be expected.
Some footprints found near an apparently recently extinguished fire were attentively examined by the settlers.
"No," answered Harding, "not a vapor escapes from the crater, for it was only yesterday that I attentively surveyed the summit.
"Mutterings can be distinctly heard in the very bowels of the volcano!""You are right," said the engineer, again listening attentively.
He then returned by the same way, listening attentively to the subterranean mutterings which rolled like long-continued thunder, interrupted by deafening explosions.
Look attentively at the duels and the hand-to-hand combats, how superior the Italians are in strength, dexterity, and subtlety.
The woman, widow of a petty official named Kalinin was petitioning for something impossible and absurd, but nevertheless Oblonsky, with his usual politeness, asked her to sit down and heard her attentively to the end, gave her full instructions how and to whom to apply and even wrote briskly and fluently in his large, graceful and legible hand a little note to a personage who might be of use to her.
She looked attentively at him as if wishing to understand his confusion.
Noticing that the Countess Nordston wished to say something, he stopped without finishing what he was saying, and listened attentively to her.
Vronsky listened attentively to Levin as he always listened, evidently interested in what he was saying.
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