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Anyway, he slunk back to the fond parent's side, where he ultimately allowed himself to be inveigled into swinging his new watch before the unattentive eyes of the red-faced babes on Alfred's knees.

From Baby Mine by Mayo, Margaret

When the dread trumpet sounds, the slumbering dust, Not unattentive to the call, shall wake; And every joint possess its proper place, With a new elegance of form, unknown To its first state.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George

The public who do not believe in military operations without bloodshed may be unattentive.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston

Young men, who are too unattentive to receive lectures, are irresistibly taken with performances.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various

At length the blind man replied, as out of a negligent, unattentive thinking: 'Oh, I don't know.

From England, My England by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)