Example Sentences

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And his line badly Heeded such a plane.

From Time Magazine Archive

As there they sat, the dames and maids Of his words they took no keep, Only his mother well-beloved Heeded his dreamful sleep.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

Up came the lass, Heeded not the violet; Trod it down into the grass; Though it died, 'twas happy yet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

Thus the mother urged her counsel, Thus she spoke unto her daughter,190 But the daughter did not heed her, Heeded not her mother's counsel.

From Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes by Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell)

Of the criminal's past life He made inquiry, and receiv'd replies Foreign from truth, or vague and taciturn: And added pious counsels, unobserv'd, Heeded but slightly, or ill understood.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard