"Attend to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... girl, Sabina; and if you'd attend to your business instead of going to sleep in the middle of the day, you might ...
— The Simpkins Plot • George A. Birmingham
... or unwillingly, he bore until the day of his death. He and the other members of his firm were originally from New Bedford, one of the chief centers of the whale fisheries of New England, and came to New York to attend to the oil and candle industries of certain merchants of the former city. Few business men in New York in my day were more highly respected for indomitable energy and personal integrity than Mr. Fish. He became President of the Tradesmen's Bank, and held other positions ...
— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur
... slow. Ether and rhigolene have been employed with some degree of success, but both are expensive, and they cannot be used in the presence of artificial light, because of danger of explosion. Another disadvantage is that two persons are required to attend to the manipulations, one to force the vapor into the freezing box, while the other uses the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 • Various
... "Bid my fellows attend to yon scum," he told his squire. "The camp marshal will have fruit for his gallows. The sweepings of all Europe have drifted with us to England, and it is our business to make bonfire of them before they breed a plague.... See to the wounded ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan
... father had a carpet bag and several packages in his hands, and he was also conducting Rollo's mother in, and thinking about the horse and carryall. So he told Rollo that he must not speak to him then, for he could not attend to him. ...
— Rollo's Experiments • Jacob Abbott
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