It stirred no love nor longing in his heart; it came
unattended with pleasant memories of a golden past--inspired no sentiment of any kind; all the finer emotions were swallowed up in fear.
One black cloud, no bigger than a little boat, drifted out into the clear space
unattended, and kept moving westward.
But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural spread over the sea, however
unattended with any stagnant calm; when the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid across them, enjoining some secresy; when the slippered waves whispered together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush of the visible sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head.
The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel Enderby of London, had not been
unattended with some small violence to his own person.
Sometimes they were found
unattended and dead in their beds; on occasion their bodies were dragged out of the water; and sometimes it was just plain accident, as when Bill Kelley, unloading cargo while drunk, had a finger jerked off, which, under the circumstances, might just as easily have been his head.
Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first
unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.
Maidens and modesty, as I have said, wandered at will alone and
unattended, without fear of insult from lawlessness or libertine assault, and if they were undone it was of their own will and pleasure.
Many human beings have gone to their graves
unattended by as much real regret as followed that one gray pussy cat to his.
A method of terminating territorial disputes between the States, under the authority of the federal head, was not
unattended to, even in the imperfect system by which they have been hitherto held together.
Elizabeth was pleased to find his memory so exact; and he afterwards took occasion to ask her, when
unattended to by any of the rest, whether ALL her sisters were at Longbourn.
At last Miss Elliot and her friend,
unattended but by the servant, (for there was no cousin returned), were walking off; and Captain Wentworth, watching them, turned again to Anne, and by manner, rather than words, was offering his services to her.
I heard of him in Manchester and Sheffield, Newcastle and Leicester, absolutely
unattended. I wonder what he was doing there."