Use heard in a sentence
Sentences starting with heard
- Heard through the land like the blast of a bugle, the proclamation rallied the patriotism of the country to fresh sacrifices and renewed ardor. [7]
- Heard enough about it. [4]
- Heard of your family. [9]
- Heard in the depths of the woods, quavering aloft, it is felt to be as much a part of nature, an original force, as the northwest wind or the scream of the hen-hawk. [4]
Sentences ending with heard
- I might refer you to those which you yourself preached as late as last June, in a sermon which was one of the finest and most scholarly efforts I ever heard. [9]
- The grand total would have been twice as large, but the streets were very narrow, and hundreds who wanted to bid could not get within a block of the stand, and could not make themselves heard. [5]
- Loud cheers, mingled with many an expression of displeasure, were heard. [10]
- This was the wind which Mr. Jefferson had heard. [9]
- At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard. [2]
- I only say what I heard. [2]
- Among those who were rich in spirit her brother Philip was certainly one of the richest, and whither had an acute understanding and restless brain led him that they so seldom gave his feelings time to make themselves heard? [10]
- And the place was plum full of farmers and farmers' wives, to dinner; and such another clack a body never heard. [5]
- Only Count Rostov was pleased with them as he had been pleased with those of the naval officer, the senator, and in general with whatever speech he had last heard. [2]
- I, whose sight was long trained to darkness, could see a great distance round us, and so could prevent a trap, though once or twice we let our canoe drift with the tide, lest our paddles should be heard. [11]
Short sentences using heard
- Still, I've heard your voice. [11]
- I heard the water running. [5]
- I heard he was here. [11]
- Presently his footstep was heard. [11]
- Again Mallow's voice was heard. [11]
- He heard Foyle's voice. [11]
- He heard Andree's voice. [11]
- I heard nothing there. [2]
- I've heard about them, though. [13]
- Mongrel has heard them planning. [5]
Sentences containing heard two or more times
- It was not without a little shock that King heard the good points, the style, the physical perfections, of Irene so fully commented on, and not without some alarm that he heard predicted for her a very successful career as a belle. [4]
- She looked on while the little creatures were being undressed; she heard the few words they lisped as their infant prayer, she saw them laid in their beds, and heard their pretty good-night. [6]
- Let me know what you heard, and from whom you heard it. [14]
- She heard the water murmur at her feet and flow on to the sea; she heard the rushing of all the waters in the world. [13]
- He took me up to my own room, and I heard him going out to wake Limbo to harness, and at last heard him driving away in our coach. [9]
- He listened anxiously to the sounds in the distance, and fancied at first that he heard the Alexandrian's footstep, and then that he heard loud words and suppressed groans coming from his cave. [10]
- I once went to a church in London and heard the famous Edward Irving preach, and heard some of his congregation speak in the strange words characteristic of their miraculous gift of tongues. [6]
- It was as though some one had heard what had been said--some one who ought not to have heard. [11]
- I know that there were remarks made about Henderson that would have pained Margaret if she had heard them, but I never heard that he lost standing in the street. [4]
- But he heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. [2]
More example sentences with the word heard in them
- My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
- I heard of your riding to the Neck of Baroob--the men of Boonda Broke brought word. [11]
- I didn't know your own Snodgrass, but have had glimpses of him from time to time, and I heard about him all the time. [5]
- You have heard your mothers and fathers speak of Aunt Patty, my dears, and they will tell you how she spoiled them when they went a-visiting to Gordon's Pride. [9]
- I've read all your little efforts and greatly admired them, and when I heard you were here, I ..." I indicated a chair, and he sat down. [5]
- Never fall below your ideals--that is what I heard a speaker say at the Town and Country Club, and that is my notion. [4]
- The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
- Dorothea received the young man with warm sympathy; she had heard that his father had fallen in the fight, and how nobly he too had distinguished himself. [10]
- Here was a young gentleman who never heard of the Lord Mayor's scale of charges. [9]
- Pretty Pierre and Young Aleck had talked together, and the old man had heard his son say: "Remember, Pierre, it is for the last time. [11]
- I thought mebbe you'd heard that shot, en' I was worried some. [13]
- I've heard of you, but--yes; I will hurry. [11]
- I am sure you, as a reasonable man, would not have been wounded could you have heard all my words and seen all my thoughts in regard to you. [7]
- Somehow, "I like you" and "I love you" got a little mixed, as they heard it. [6]
- Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
- He heard where you were, and he hired with my company to come out here as a foreman. [11]
- But I thought you were all only trying to make it easier for me, and I heard Warbeck say to Rockwell, when they thought I was asleep, 'It's ten to one against him. [11]
- Let me ask you this--that you'll not believe anything bad of me till you've heard what I've got to say. [11]
- Shall I read you the poems referred to in the one you have just heard, sir? [6]
- I had heard you talk of him. [9]
- I've never heard you sigh, and never seen your eye when there wasn't a laugh in it. [5]
- But my sakes, you should have heard Ingersoll's speech on that table! [5]
- I never heard you say that you were glad he wasn't your husband. [4]
- I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
- I have heard you say so a dozen times. [9]
- She heard what you said to him, you tell me. [9]
- Yet I heard you read it--without losing my balance. [5]
- My name, as you heard me say, is Byles Gridley. [6]
- Even here to-day you heard Judge Douglas quarrel with me because I uttered a wish that it might sometime come to an end. [7]
- Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
- Tell him that you heard her voice out in the street, and with the help of a worthy old man--that am I--rescued her from any peril you may invent. [10]
- What more have you heard concerning the first books of the Annales of Tacitus, said to have been discovered in the Corvey monastery? [10]
- I don't believe you heard a thing he said. [9]
- But since, as you have heard, I act before I think, I went myself--I no longer know how--into the burning stable. [10]
- But, of course, you have heard everything. [11]
- I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]
- Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
- I thought perhaps you had heard of the Ninth Vermont. [4]
- I've heard of you from my mistress. [11]
- I wonder if you ever heard the lines--foolish they read, but they are not: "'All summer long there was one little butterfly, Flying ahead of me, Wings red and yellow, a pretty little fellow, Flying ahead of me. [11]
- For a moment you could have heard a pine needle drop on the stoop. [9]
- But I heard you calling, and I came. [11]
- He thinks of you as a person of convictions--and he has heard things about you. [9]
- Not only where you are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard and painfully felt. [2]
- It was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apraksina..." was heard on all sides. [2]
- Arrived in New York, Col. Jack said: "I've heard tell of carriages all my life, and now I mean to have a ride in one; I don't care what it costs. [5]
- Nearer, and nearer yet--and then I heard my name called. [9]
- I have not yet heard from Sheridan. [7]
- I heard that yesterday morning, and thought that the golden blessing which preceded it would last the dear saints only knew how long. [10]
- Firing was heard yesterday in the direction of Blucherberg, and for a while the excitement was intense. [5]
- Besides, during the years of her intercourse with Massi she had heard many things about his residence--nay, every member of his household--and therefore she could now form a picture of his future life. [10]
- It's been seven years and more since I heard any. [5]
- Then we heard Xavier's voice, in French, thanking the Blessed Virgin for our escape. [9]
- But I shall write to him what I have today heard said by different people. [10]
- Go where you would, you heard nothing else, from morning till far into the night. [5]
- She could and would show this, for, like an illumination, words which she had heard the day before in the Golden Cross had flashed into her memory. [10]
- I know you would not be happy when you heard that we were crying for your loss. [12]
- But Mr. Crewe would have been interested if he could have heard Mr. Flint's first remark to the senator after the door was closed on his back. [9]
- A few days would end it, for good or ill. Madame Chalice heard the news with consternation, and pity would have sent her to Valmond's bedside, but that she found Elise was his faithful nurse and servitor. [11]
- The casual reader would certainly conclude that the Somers Isles were somehow due to the providence of John Smith, when in fact he never even heard that Gates and Smith were shipwrecked there till he had returned to England, sent home from Virginia. [4]
- Sirona is a worthy and innocent woman, and at the time when Phoebicius came out to seek her, I had never even set eyes upon her nor had my ears ever heard a word pass her lips. [10]
- He was not working alone here as he did at Richtberg; for Ulrich heard more than one hammer striking iron in the workshop. [10]
- Charley heard her words, for the window was open, and he listened and watched now with an infinite relief in his look. [11]
- She heard the words, but they had no meaning to her. [5]
- He heard Byng's words, and for a moment his dark eyes glowed with a look of evil satisfaction. [11]
- We heard her words to her companion: "Justine, do not look so. [11]
- You've heard the words of the song--the river drivers sing it: "'What is there like to the cry of the bird That sings in its nest in the lilac tree? [11]
- Sighs were heard, words of prayer, and the sobbing of the count's old valet. [2]
- Them's the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me --I'll never vote agin as long as I live. [5]
- And the last words I ever heard him say was to reproach--" But this memory was too much for the old lady, and she broke entirely down. [5]
- I heard his words distinctly, but at first lacked the faculty of stringing them together, or rather of extracting their collective sense. [9]
- She heard Dunyasha's words about Peter Ilynich and a misfortune, but did not grasp them. [2]
- He heard the word but faintly, for her face was still turned away from him. [9]
- It was Colonel, won't you come and dine with us; and Colonel why don't we ever see you at our house; and the Colonel says this; and the Colonel says that; and we know such-and-such is so-and-so because my husband heard Col. [5]
- Well, it was wonderful to think of, and I says: "Why, I've heard talk about this Desert plenty of times, but I never knowed before how important she was. [5]
- Then, to the woman: "Annette, you have heard me speak of this gentleman? [11]
- Once a drunken woman spat at me and cursed me; once I was fired at; and many times from dark corners I heard voices crying, "Sauvez-moi--ah, sauvez-moi, bon Dieu! [11]
- The complainants had witnesses who testified under oath what they had heard in taverns and tap-rooms from Sir Seitz Siebenburg and those who repeated his tales. [10]
- Private Gellatly, standing without, heard Sergeant Fones say, as he passed into the open air, and slowly bared his forehead to the winter sun: "Exactly. [11]
- We travelled on without speakin' for a long time, and then I heard him say absently: 'I am sick of that. [11]
- The firm "Yes" with which she answered, and her indignant exclamation as she repulsed Hanno's premature attempt at tenderness, might have been heard by the hawk even at a greater distance. [10]
- It was tinged with that dialect he had heard, since leaving Cincinnati. [9]
- He flattered her with so much tact, that she thought she heard an unconscious echo through his lips of an admiration which he only shared with all around him. [6]
- Manners," I replied, with repugnance, "I have heard all I wish. [9]
- Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. [6]
- Eva, fairly radiant with joy, nodded assent; and Els heard the ring of pleasure in her clear voice, too, as she exclaimed: "That was just what made the ball so delightful. [10]
- Eva's cheeks flushed with joy and pride as she heard how nobly her lover had justified the confidence of his imperial patron. [10]
- The king tapped with his white-gloved hand on the ledge of the box when he was pleased with the singing.--To a morning concert and heard the real Paganini. [6]
- Richards, sitting there with his chair tilted back against the wall and his chin between his knees, heard something fall. [5]
- He filled it with episodes and incidents that Washington never heard of, and he did it so convincingly that although I knew none of it had happened, from that day to this I do not know any history but Sala's. [5]
- He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, addressing first one, then another. [2]
- The performance opened with a tremendous prelude on the piano by Herr Bloomgarten, who had been Liszt's favorite pupil; indeed, it was whispered that Liszt had said that, old as he was, he never heard Bloomgarten without learning something. [4]
- The wedding ended with a sensation, for just as the benediction was pronounced a loud report was heard beneath the floor of the church. [11]
- Els was received with a mournful greeting; but when Herr Ernst heard what had brought her to him, he fiercely commanded her to tell Herr Casper that he would have nothing more to do with him. [10]
- Through the open window the moans of the adjutant could be heard more distinctly. [2]
- The learned Master Windecke made haste to depart, as he could ill-endure such touching matters, while Uncle Conrad enquired of Ann what she had heard of Herdegen's end. [10]
- She heard the wind moaning in the cottonwoods and mice squeaking in the walls. [13]
- He heard them willingly, but did not let them discuss the matter; then, though with some difficulty, he quickly mounted the steps, down which Bent-Anat came towards him. [10]
- Them two men will tell how they heard the yells and rushed there just in time to not save the stranger. [5]
- I suppose you will say, what we have heard you say before, that you only asked questions. [11]
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