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  • Ah sir, why didn't you heed Dobby?†   (source)
  • Or will the sled dogs heed her plight, break loose from their tethers, tear in through the canvas, rip this guy to pieces, tentacle by tentacle?†   (source)
  • He did not heed his father's cries of warning.†   (source)
  • I smiled, shook his hand, and said thanks, but I did not heed his advice.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the week he heeds his own advice: keeps his head down, does what he is asked, never argues.†   (source)
  • But I heeded my better judgment.†   (source)
  • In 1960, The New York Times printed an advertisement titled "Heed Their Rising Voices" that attempted to raise money to defend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. against perjury charges in Alabama.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, none of the other Champions paid them any heed.†   (source)
  • The technician heeded the instruction, and the image lightened somewhat.†   (source)
  • None of his converts was a man whose word was heeded in the assembly of the people.†   (source)
  • That it was better that I went despite some advice that it could be dangerous because it was a public place, because if I had not gone and heeded the advice I was given, I would never have truly known if it was safe or not to go and would have resented the advice.†   (source)
  • I decided to heed what I'm sure would have been my mother's advice and get a good night's sleep before my first day of classes.†   (source)
  • They paid Kai and Torin no heed as they passed, but Kai didn't doubt they would snap his neck in a second if he made any suspicious movements.†   (source)
  • He leapt down from the platform and ran along the beach, paying no heed to the steady fall of his tears; and until he dived into the forest Ralph watched him.†   (source)
  • But you need to calm yourself and heed what I am about to tell you.†   (source)
  • "But heed this, Darren Shan," he said.†   (source)
  • And it does sound as if you were brave, Scorpius, and you, Albus, but the lesson even your father sometimes failed to heed is that bravery doesn't forgive stupidity.†   (source)
  • The next day I heeded Link's warnings, taking a different route to class.†   (source)
  • "Keep back," I shouted again, but they would not heed me.†   (source)
  • I've always wanted to but never did because I wanted to heed Henri's advice to keep a low profile.†   (source)
  • Had they heeded the words of the goatherds?†   (source)
  • For all of you who thought it was silly of us to pay what we did for Facebook's archives, take heed!†   (source)
  • What you say out of it they will not heed.†   (source)
  • My voice had heeded Meg's command all on its own, which did not bode well.†   (source)
  • Although at my mother's heeding I had gone through all the required Sacraments, some years back I stopped religious instruction,making confession or attending Mass.†   (source)
  • "Yes, just you take heed of what the girl said!" he called.†   (source)
  • I have survived the millennia because I heeded my own counsel, Hekate snapped.†   (source)
  • This is what these 'trivial errors' as you call them really signify and if you do not heed them, it will not be long before your father commits an error of major proportions.†   (source)
  • The evening was too fresh in my memory for me to pay much heed to Deoch's warning.†   (source)
  • And there's plenty of advice for sages in that book he would have done well to heed.†   (source)
  • After all, how could he heed a command that he could not hear?†   (source)
  • For three hours—until six o'clock—he persisted in the same inexorable vein: that Judge Fielding's admonitions should be heeded with the utmost seriousness and that reasonable doubt existed.†   (source)
  • And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul.†   (source)
  • "Right now your business is not to give any heed to what those folks from Old Sarum tell you—you ain't called upon to contradict 'em, just don't pay 'em any attention—and if you want to know somethin', you just run to old Cal."†   (source)
  • Yet Ruth and I hardly heeded these developments as we fell in love with a new movement in art called Lyrical Abstractionism, which had its roots in both Pollock and Rothko.†   (source)
  • A bookmark lay between its pages, a stiff piece of watered silk upon which an admonition had been embroidered: "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is."†   (source)
  • Should I heed the counsel of the embassy officials or should I grasp for freedom anywhere I could find it?†   (source)
  • German soldiers—with their steel helmets, and their emblem, the death's heed.†   (source)
  • No one pays me heed as I make my way through Serra to Teluman's forge.†   (source)
  • "I know, Pete"-pats the skinny knee, and Pete pulls back his face, realizes nobody is going to heed his complaint today.†   (source)
  • The 13s had heeded the precedent set by Luma's cancellation of the 15s' season; a full roster had turned out for the game.†   (source)
  • Fiver paid him no heed, but looked from one to another among the rabbits.†   (source)
  • Heed my warning.†   (source)
  • Pupo took heed and crossed himself, but Checo twisted the iiag's arm behind his back and threatened to give his manhood the hand of God.†   (source)
  • The superpredator, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, mad-cow disease, crib death: how can we fail to heed the expert's advice on these horrors when, like that mean uncle telling too-scary stories to too-young children, he has reduced us to quivers?†   (source)
  • "But you should heed the warning," Edward went on.†   (source)
  • Call asked--a dog was likely to bark at anything, and a smart vaquero would heed it and take immediate precautions.†   (source)
  • Her stomach expanded steadily because of the infection, and the nurses paid her little heed.†   (source)
  • Ann seems fine—though I suspect she pretended to drink more than she did, a lesson I might heed next time.†   (source)
  • When I pulled up to the Quik Zip, heeding the call of that Extra Large Zip Diet, I was surprised to see Lissa's car parked in front of the pay phones.†   (source)
  • But being an Adventist didn't just mean heeding prohibitions.†   (source)
  • Heed the words of the Caretakers who preceded you, whose wisdom can be found in the Geographica, for they have learned lessons you will need to learn yourself.†   (source)
  • A need to urinate is to be heeded whether in public or visiting friends.†   (source)
  • Whenever Blanca told her husband the strange things she had observed among the servants, he replied that they were Indian customs to which she should pay no heed.†   (source)
  • The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.†   (source)
  • The wild dogs had been to the house many times that winter and he had paid no heed to them, but the night before, after they had come and gone, he had stood at the fence.†   (source)
  • Barbara heeds this more carefully.†   (source)
  • And in times of weakness, she was ready to heed the call and return to her mother.†   (source)
  • "Many thanks to Rebecca Bloomwood, and I'm sure we'll all be heeding her advice.†   (source)
  • I heeded an instinct that only made itself known when my sight was gone.†   (source)
  • Because it is said, "Then they that feared the Lord spake one with the other, and the Lord gave heed and heard."†   (source)
  • The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.†   (source)
  • It would have been so easy to heed the wily words of Locaha and sink into the blackness, but that would have drowned her, too.†   (source)
  • "You will not heed my words, then," said Fontaine, lowering the binoculars and looking at Jason.†   (source)
  • He lifted her and carried her inside without the least effort and dumped her on the cement floor, paying no heed to her protests.†   (source)
  • Oh, he was not stern with me—perhaps had he been sterner I would have heeded him more readily.†   (source)
  • Grace was still crying beside him, but he paid her no heed.†   (source)
  • Four days later, before Ernesto can move his belongings from his mother's apartment to the house on Palmas Street, before Felicia's mother, children, and best friend, Herminia, can object to the suddenness of her marriage to Ernesto, before Felicia can heed the directives of the santero, whose advice she has not entirely forgotten, before she and her husband can celebrate their union with a clamorous party, Ernesto dies tragically in a grease fire at a seaside hotel.†   (source)
  • He knew that he should heed her warning.†   (source)
  • No wonder we get seasons like this sent as a warning, but do they read the warning and heed it, do they —?†   (source)
  • I did my best to heed his words and advice.†   (source)
  • Max refused to look east or heed any pain as he stumbled along.†   (source)
  • Take heed while you can.†   (source)
  • My mother warned me not to range the Southern slopes, into Archenland and beyond, but I wouldn't heed her.†   (source)
  • It is those who stand at the gateway of the great change to whose cry we must pay heed.†   (source)
  • FEB. 15—The bus driver's classic call to "step to the rear" might be heeded by airline passengers.†   (source)
  • Shaw paid no heed to the activity.†   (source)
  • The editorial board took heed of her critique.†   (source)
  • I was heeding you.†   (source)
  • When he spoke, they would pay him no heed.†   (source)
  • "Well, I reckon I should go pay some heed to the gal I came here with," he said, making a joke of it.†   (source)
  • He came to accept his penance with stoicism, heeding Bruenor's commands without question or complaint.†   (source)
  • He broke off, heeding his lawyer's sharp warning a little too late.†   (source)
  • Vivienne seemed to notice this but paid it no heed.†   (source)
  • Besides that, our water shots killed millions of fish and many fishermen, as fishermen and other seafarers had not heeded warnings.†   (source)
  • He did not heed his own counsel, for truth be told he had never been much of a lunch person.†   (source)
  • The pups joined the group and flopped, panting heavily; but none of the adults paid them any heed.†   (source)
  • So when his ma went on and on about the Reds and how dangerous it was and how they might get killed, he didn't give no heed.†   (source)
  • Since he was used to it, he did not heed, consciously at least, the sadness she could not keep back from her eyes.†   (source)
  • Nobody heeded him.†   (source)
  • ANNIE helps lift them into the room, and the servant pushes the wheelbarrow off In none of this is any heed taken of the imaginary walls of the garden house, the furniture is moved in from every side and itself defines the walls.†   (source)
  • My grandmother believed firmly in the existence of ghosts and the importance of heeding omens.†   (source)
  • Pay good heed to me for I have thought long about it.†   (source)
  • But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.†   (source)
  • Siddhartha could not heed his friend's advice, he could not give up the boy.†   (source)
  • So heed it.†   (source)
  • Money like that was a warning; Leamas had not heeded the warning.†   (source)
  • I've warned him for years his body couldn't stand it, but he wouldn't heed me, and now it's too late.†   (source)
  • Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah -- to "undo the heavy burdens…and let the oppressed go free."†   (source)
  • My lords, if I were a man who heeded not the taking of an oath, you know well I need not to be here.†   (source)
  • Beorn seemed to be growing drowsy and paid little heed to them.   (source)
    heed = attention
  • But men paid no heed to their warning.   (source)
  • But I took little heed at the moment, for all my mind was occupied with the generosity of these poor Highlanders.   (source)
    heed = consideration (to pay attention or to do what was suggested)
  • Why do you pay any heed to that?   (source)
    heed = attention
  • What will be my defense for not heeding His commands?†   (source)
  • "You listen respectfully to me in Council," she said, "yet you seldom heed my advice.†   (source)
  • "Always heed the omens," the old king had said.†   (source)
  • You'd do well to heed what we say, Matthew Wood.†   (source)
  • He didn't appear to be paying much heed to the sermon.†   (source)
  • I tried to heed Rob's advice, but my latent claustrophobia prevailed.†   (source)
  • For once the ship touched down and started taking on water, she would not heed our commands anymore.†   (source)
  • "Aggo," Dany called, paying no heed to-Jhogo's words.†   (source)
  • We may never meet again, Mrs Benn, so I would ask you to take good heed of what I am saying.†   (source)
  • As if heeding Uri's words, bread soon became something more to believe in than to eat.†   (source)
  • You ought to have heeded Littlefinger when he urged you to support Joffrey's succession."†   (source)
  • Perhaps some heeded your warning and escaped.†   (source)
  • Had they been heeded in their time, France would not have fallen.†   (source)
  • He uses them carelessly, without heed for the destruction they could cause throughout the land.†   (source)
  • -must certainly heed a mother's cry: my sweet child has gone missing.†   (source)
  • I told the Thirteen that you would heed my wisdom.†   (source)
  • It's easy not to heed someone when you're deaf.†   (source)
  • It was a lesson that Jefferson, alas, would not heed.†   (source)
  • Heed this before I go: Many forks lie between you and Rodruban.†   (source)
  • PAYING NO heed to the desires of the soldiers, the cattle boat moved forward.†   (source)
  • "She took no heed of it," Royce complained.†   (source)
  • "Flame," he cried, "feed them flame," but there was no one to pay heed.†   (source)
  • Obasan teaches me not to be wagamama by always heeding everyone's needs.†   (source)
  • The old gods paid no more heed to prayer than the new ones, it would seem.†   (source)
  • Certainly the trolls had paid him no heed.†   (source)
  • But Frodo did not heed them; he laughed again.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be cries in the woods behind, but he did not heed them.†   (source)
  • Hate me if you wish, Eragon, but heed what I have to say, for I know whereof I speak.†   (source)
  • Whatever the message meant, Tomas heeded it and moved off.†   (source)
  • He's disappeared] 'Let me through!' he screamed, the words now clear but heeded by no one.†   (source)
  • We pass by the throngs of mongers, carefully nodding and heeding the signs.†   (source)
  • The sun that heads for the sea no longer heeds the prayers of the farmer.†   (source)
  • But the King of Blys did not pay his Great God any heed.†   (source)
  • The act had been so insignificant at the time, they had paid it little heed.†   (source)
  • "No," she cried, "no, please, don't, don't," but no one paid her any heed.†   (source)
  • Why I should be the one to heed I don't know.†   (source)
  • Below them, Eragon heard shouts of fear and astonishment, but he paid them no heed.†   (source)
  • Alastar, Alastar, brave and free, heed my call and come to me.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I should have heeded the rumble of that distant drum when I was riding high," he once said.†   (source)
  • Heed my words, Master Clovis, for I speak the truth.†   (source)
  • Hating myself, I tried to heed Ellen's counsel, biting my lip, listening to Moody rage against me.†   (source)
  • I cried down at the three, giant figures, but they took no heed of me.†   (source)
  • "You should heed the Lord Protector, my lord," the maester said.†   (source)
  • He may not heed your words, but he will hear them.†   (source)
  • It listened to young men and paid heed to chance and desire.†   (source)
  • "Why would the gods send a warning if we can't heed it and change what's to come?"†   (source)
  • Lenyl screamed at them to be quiet, but they paid him no heed.†   (source)
  • The Company swept past them and took no heed of them.†   (source)
  • I raise it for you and you alone, and you will heed it without hesitance or prejudice.†   (source)
  • If I walked into Farthen Dur with an Urgal, the dwarves would not pay heed to anything I had to say.†   (source)
  • 'Time is pressing,' said the Rider, not heeding Aragorn.†   (source)
  • "Heed his words, boy," the dwarf instructed one last time.†   (source)
  • If you truly think me wise, heed me now.†   (source)
  • "Ghost, no, stay," he shouted, but the wolf paid no heed.†   (source)
  • She heard me grudgingly and took no heed.†   (source)
  • Arya heeded his call and loped over, her stride as graceful as a gazelle's.†   (source)
  • Lord Beric paid no heed to her outburst.†   (source)
  • Few heeded the sign, and not even Bilbo yet had any notion of what it portended.†   (source)
  • The memory of words at the Council came back to me: words of Saruman, half-heeded at the time.†   (source)
  • The old man either did not hear it or refused to pay it any heed.†   (source)
  • "Heed the wisdom of those who love you best," said Xaro Xhoan Daxos, lounging inside the palanquin.†   (source)
  • Lord Tywin would have paid more heed to a mouse squeaking in the corner.†   (source)
  • Alebelly was the only one who paid the warning any heed.†   (source)
  • Those fools in black might try and remember that if they wish His Grace to heed them.†   (source)
  • "You'd do well to heed what I told you about choosing a crew."†   (source)
  • Thoros of Myr paid no heed to the banter.†   (source)
  • Heed their counsel and they'll serve you well."†   (source)
  • The one time he should have heeded Varys, and he ignored him.†   (source)
  • If I'm the prince, why won't you heed me?†   (source)
  • I would like to heed the wishes of my people, Mother, but I took a holy vow.†   (source)
  • Renly is not like to heed a quaking fat boy.†   (source)
  • Then I must heed Pyat Pree, and go to the warlocks.†   (source)
  • This wolf king heeds your counsel, does he?†   (source)
  • Rod's mind had long since blanked them out, heeded them no more than chorusing cicadas.†   (source)
  • He gave little heed to the wreck and slaughter that lay about all.†   (source)
  • Some people said he should be lynched, but they were not heeded.†   (source)
  • I hope you'll heed the warning, now it comes from his own mouth.†   (source)
  • In all the days that she was growing up, signs failed not, but none heeded.†   (source)
  • And three stargazers heeded, and hasted To answer the call of these unwonted lights.†   (source)
  • 'I have been too busy with this and that to heed all the crying and shouting,' she answered.†   (source)
  • 'It is all that I have to spare, for there is much else to heed,' he said to Gandalf.†   (source)
  • Now slowly and sadly Merry walked beside the bearers, and he gave no more heed to the battle.†   (source)
  • To prudence some heed must still be given.†   (source)
  • 'For my part I heeded them not,' said Gimli; 'for we came then at last upon battle in earnest.†   (source)
  • Slowly, trampling the fallen, he rode forth, heeding no longer any dart.†   (source)
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