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

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

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

Do you think I'd consent to your leaving your fine friend in pawn while you dance attendance on me?

From The Eye of Zeitoon by Mundy, Talbot