"Tendance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... round the corse, and laid the dank limbs bare: Then sate below the hill-top, out o' the wind, Where no bad odour from the dead might strike us, Stirring each other on with interchange Of loud revilings on the negligent In 'tendance on this duty. So we stayed Till in mid heaven the sun's resplendent orb Stood high, and the heat strengthened. Suddenly, The Storm-god raised a whirlwind from the ground, Vexing heaven's concave, and filled all the plain, Rending the locks of all the orchard ...
— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles
... For Holy Offices I haue a time; a time To thinke vpon the part of businesse, which I beare i'th' State: and Nature does require Her times of preseruation, which perforce I her fraile sonne, among'st my Brethren mortall, Must giue my tendance to ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... horse in my stables, Take Lightfoot or Eclipse—no, Eclipse is lame, Take Lightfoot then, or Princess[39], Ride hard all night to Leicester. And give him money, money, Francis— The old man must have medicines, cordials, And broth to keep him warm, and careful nurses. He must not die for lack of tendance, Robert. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... who sang of the deeds of former crusaders, and alluded very touchingly to the loneliness of the wounded knight, Herr Weisenthau, on his couch of pain. Then the Lady Wendula remembered her eldest son, and the fraternal tendance which Biberli ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers |
