Whylest thus he talkt, the knight with greedy eare / Hong still upon his melting mouth attent […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 6:40:
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All patiently awaited the event Without a stir or sound, as if no less Self-occupied, doomstricken while attent.1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section XIV:
So being clad unto the fields he went With the faire Pastorella every day, And kept her sheepe with diligent attent1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: