All 16 Uses of
heed
in
The Good Earth
- At the instant's respite the old man sank upon the ground and the little boys lay down in the dust, heedless of the feet trampling everywhere about them.†
Chpt 10
- And he took the meat out of the pot with his two fingers and threw it upon the ground and was heedless of the younger lad's howling.†
Chpt 12
- Wang Lung living among these who labored at feasting others, heard strange things of which he took little heed.†
Chpt 13 *
- None had paid any heed to them in this dreadful year and Wang Lung looked at them grimly and with content and he said aloud, as one might speak to a punished child, "Thus it is with gods who do evil to men!"†
Chpt 15
- But when he took heart to glance about from under his lids, he saw no one paying any heed and the rattling of dice burst out anew and so he said in confusion, "No—no—I have not—only tea —"†
Chpt 18
- At first it seemed to him that every man looked up and watched him but when he took courage to see he saw that none paid him any heed, except for one or two who called out, "Is it late enough, then, to go to the women?" and another called, "Here is a lusty fellow whose needs must begin early!"†
Chpt 19
- And even though he saw by O-lan's sullen looks and Cuckoo's sharpness that something was amiss, he would not pay heed to it and he was careless of anyone so long as he was still fierce with his desire.†
Chpt 21
- But his uncle sat where he was and ate on, now from this bowl and now from that, and Wang Lung stood there bursting with his blood, and when he saw his uncle paid no heed to him, he stepped forward with his arm upraised.†
Chpt 23
- But the robbers never came to his house and he grew careless and bold and he believed he was protected by heaven and that he was a man of good fortune by destiny, and he grew heedless of everything, even of incense of the gods, since they were good enought to him without, and he thought of nothing except of his own affairs and of his land.†
Chpt 23
- All during the dark winter months when O-lan lay dying Wang Lung paid no heed to the land.†
Chpt 26
- This lad he had, indeed, scarcely known at all, for he grew up weak beside the vigor of the elder brother, and except for his piping tales he was not a child or a youth to whom one would pay great heed, so that when he went into the shop, Wang Lung forgot him day after day, except to answer when anyone asked him how many children he had, "Well, and I have three sons."†
Chpt 28
- And Wang Lung slept and rested himself and took no heed of anything, for he was suddenly very weary and the house was peaceful.†
Chpt 29
- No one heeded him, and there was running to and fro, but he dared to stop no one to ask what sort of a child had been born or even if any had been born.†
Chpt 29
- Then when Lotus saw he did not heed her she sent a slave after him with an umbrella of oiled paper, but so fast did Wang Lung run that the stout maid had difficulty in holding the umbrella over his head.†
Chpt 29
- And his wife came out to see what he had done and the two of them walked about through every court and room and she saw this and that still lacking, and he listened with great heed to all she said that he might do it.†
Chpt 30
- So he paid no great heed to the matter beyond this and he was not moved by more than a little curiosity and he said to his second son, "Do as you think well with the grain.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(heed) pay close attention to; or to do what is suggested -- especially with regard to a warning or other advice