tending
/ˈtɛndɪŋ/ noun B2- Attention; the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
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All that day Mowgli sat in the cave tending his fire pot and dipping dry branches into it to see how they looked.
Slumber refused to visit his eyelids and the night was passed in feverish contemplation of the chain of circumstances tending to prove the identity of the mysterious visitant to the Colosseum with the inhabitant of the grotto of Monte Cristo; and the more he thought, the firmer grew his opinion on the subject.
“And who are fully as well worth loving and tending as M.
Alas, it is not the death of the body I regret; for is not the destruction of the vital principle, the repose to which everything is tending, to which every unhappy being aspires,—is not this the repose of matter after which I so long sighed, and which I was seeking to attain by the painful process of starvation when Faria appeared in my dungeon?
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