When the gentlemen rose to go away, Mrs. Bennet was mindful of her intended civility, and they were invited and engaged to dine at Longbourn in a few days’ time.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
“The queen your mother was always mindful of her duty.” He was handsome in his gold-and-silver armor, his white cloak streaming from his shoulders, but he sounded like a man in pain, as if every word were a stone he had to pass.
George R. R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
O let him feel the evil he hath done; For though I scorn Oceanus’s lore, Much pain have I for more than loss of realms: The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled; Those days, all innocent of scathing war, When all the fair Existences of heaven Came open-eyed to guess what we would speak:— That was before our brows were taught to frown, Before our lips knew else but solemn sounds; That was before we knew the winged thing, Victory, might be lost, or might be won, And be ye mindful that Hyperion, Our brightest brother, still is undisgraced— Hyperion, lo!
John Keats
Poetry
Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pávlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel!
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
That’s why.” Mindful of the secret, Darnay with great difficulty checked himself, and said: “You may not understand the gentleman.” “I understand how to put you in a corner, Mr. Darnay,” said Bully Stryver, “and I’ll do it.
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
This day my hand thy tender age shall shield, And crown with honours of the conquer’d field: Thou, when thy riper years shall send thee forth To toils of war, be mindful of my worth; Assert thy birthright, and in arms be known, For Hector’s nephew, and Aeneas’ son.” He said; and, striding, issued on the plain.
Virgil
The Aeneid
They were going to win the rights they needed to win, and probably this year: Johnson, mindful of the legacy which had been left him by the slain President (and perhaps hoping to put another nail in the coffin of Barry Goldwater), would do more than oversee the passage of the Civil Rights Act; if necessary he would ram it into law.
Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
Julie, mindful of Emmanuel’s request, was following her father when he quitted the room, but he said to her quickly: “Remain with your mother, dearest.” Julie wished to accompany him.
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
A regular snow-maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair, curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners.
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
They shook hands again, Rubber Ed being carefully mindful of the old party's arthritis.
King, Stephen
Apt Pupil
From Cahill’s corner the reverend Hugh C. Love, M. A., made obeisance unperceived, mindful of lords deputies whose hands benignant had held of yore rich advowsons.
James Joyce
Ulysses
The little pan, crimson with fury but still mindful of his dignity, was making for the door, but he stopped short and said suddenly, addressing Grushenka: “Pani, if you want to come with me, come.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
You repay the Sisterhood right up to the limits of your abilities.” “Watchdogs!” “We’re always mindful of one another.
Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse: Dune
But mindful of the gods, Achilles went To the rich coffer in his shady tent; There lay on heaps his various garments roll'd, And costly furs, and carpets stiff with gold, (The presents of the silver-footed dame) From thence he took a bowl, of antique frame, Which never man had stained with ruddy wine, Nor raised in offerings to the power divine, [pg 295] But Peleus' son; and Peleus' son to none Had raised in offerings, but to Jove alone.
Homer
The Iliad
“The queen your mother was always mindful of her duty.” He was handsome in his gold-and-silver armor, his white cloak streaming from his shoulders, but he sounded like a man in pain, as if every word were a stone he had to pass.
Martin, George, R. R.
A Dance With Dragons
“So, I come to warm-ups as a choreographer now after ten years of having four years of bruises and then six years of not a single bruise on my body.” Hoggett’s most important instruction for an actor is to be mindful of his or her body.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
Art thou, perchance, mindful of thy enslaved knight who of his own free will hath exposed himself to so great perils, and all to serve thee?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote