dance attendance on
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Servants dance attendance on this obstreperous youngster, whose haughtiness is no doubt inflamed by her cold, aristocratic mother and distracted military captain father.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023
It is also the most conjested wake in history: hundreds of fictional and historical characters dance attendance on poor Finnegan as he is laid out over 628 pages.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best scenes in the picture are those in which the two men dance attendance on their mutual wife to some pretty, witty choreography by Jack Cole.
From Time Magazine Archive
The people who dance attendance on him are all parodistically based on people who surrounded Coward when he was at the height of his fame in prewar London.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was not a gifted poet himself, but to dance attendance on one afforded a gratification to his artistic impulse.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Hubbard, Elbert
