All 17 Uses of
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- had himself sculptured on his knees before the Virgin, and whither he caused to be brought, without heeding the two gaps thus made in the row of royal statues, the statues of Charlemagne and of Saint Louis, two saints whom he supposed to be great in favor in heaven, as kings of France.†
Chpt 1.1.1heeding = paying close attention to; or doing what is suggested
- The beggar turned round; there was surprise, recognition, a lighting up of the two countenances, and so forth; then, without paying the slightest heed in the world to the spectators, the hosier and the wretched being began to converse in a low tone, holding each other's hands, in the meantime, while the rags of Clopin Trouillefou, spread out upon the cloth of gold of the dais, produced the effect of a caterpillar on an orange.†
Chpt 1.1.4heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Nevertheless, her song breathed joy, most of all, and she seemed to sing like a bird, from serenity and heedlessness.†
Chpt 1.2.3 *standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in heedlessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
- A group of children, those little bare-footed savages who have always roamed the pavements of Paris under the eternal name of ~gamins~, and who, when we were also children ourselves, threw stones at all of us in the afternoon, when we came out of school, because our trousers were not torn—a swarm of these young scamps rushed towards the square where Gringoire lay, with shouts and laughter which seemed to pay but little heed to the sleep of the neighbors.†
Chpt 1.2.5heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- Then he shouted shrilly: "Silence!" and, as the cauldron and the frying-pan did not heed him, and continued their duet, he jumped down from his hogshead, gave a kick to the boiler, which rolled ten paces away bearing the child with it, a kick to the frying-pan, which upset in the fire with all its grease, and gravely remounted his throne, without troubling himself about the stifled tears of the child, or the grumbling of the old woman, whose supper was wasting away in a fine white flame.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- The young man whose presence served to set in play all these feminine selfconceits, appeared to pay very little heed to the matter, and, while these pretty damsels were vying with one another to attract his attention, he seemed to be chiefly absorbed in polishing the buckle of his sword belt with his doeskin glove.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- They seemed to take no heed of her presence, and talked of her aloud, to her face, as of something unclean, abject, and yet, at the same time, passably pretty.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- The mention of this last circumstance disturbed the archdeacon greatly, though Gringoire paid no attention to his perturbation; to such an extent had two months sufficed to cause the heedless poet to forget the singular details of the evening on which he had met the gypsy, and the presence of the archdeacon in it all.†
Chpt 2.7.2heedless = ignorant or ignoring; or not following advicestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in heedless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- He did not know it, but it was at least a Phoebus, and that magic name sufficed to make the archdeacon follow the two heedless comrades with the stealthy tread of a wolf, listening to their words and observing their slightest gestures with anxious attention.†
Chpt 2.7.6
- All his heedlessness had gradually returned.†
Chpt 2.7.7standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in heedlessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
- You paid no heed to it.†
Chpt 2.8.4heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- In this he was not mistaken, there was then no "Gazette des Tribunaux;" and as not a week passed which had not its counterfeiter to boil, or its witch to hang, or its heretic to burn, at some one of the innumerable justices of Paris, people were so accustomed to seeing in all the squares the ancient feudal Themis, bare armed, with sleeves stripped up, performing her duty at the gibbets, the ladders, and the pillories, that they hardly paid any heed to it.†
Chpt 2.8.6
- It was a sacrilege; but he had got beyond heeding such a trifle now.†
Chpt 2.9.1heeding = paying close attention to; or doing what is suggested
- The gypsy paid no heed to him.†
Chpt 2.9.4heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- For the first few moments, the deaf man paid no heed to him; but at last he turned his head, and suddenly straightened up.†
Chpt 2.10.4
- When the scholar beheld himself disarmed, stripped, weak, and naked in those terrible hands, he made no attempt to speak to the deaf man, but began to laugh audaciously in his face, and to sing with his intrepid heedlessness of a child of sixteen, the then popular ditty:—†
Chpt 2.10.4standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in heedlessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
- The king paid no heed.†
Chpt 2.10.5heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
Definition:
pay close attention to; or to do what is suggested -- especially with regard to a warning or other advice