dance attendance on

Example Sentences

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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

She otherwise prides herself on a low-maintenance approach to red carpet preparations, dispensing with the retinue of stylists, groomers and assorted handlers who customarily dance attendance on the stars.

From New York Times

He began to dance attendance on his crew as if they were patients and he their doctor.

From Project Gutenberg

You've just got back from the other end of the town, tired and hungry, and off you run again, without eating a morsel, to dance attendance on her.

From Project Gutenberg

And like the cold-blooded coquette that you are, you've made Ralph Kindelon leave poor Cora Dares, who's madly in love with him, and dance attendance on yourself.

From Project Gutenberg