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Sentences starting with listen

Listen to me while I show you the parallel of the story of the astronomer in the history of medicine. [6]
Listen to them, when there is only a light breath stirring, and you will hear them saying to each other,--"Wait awhile! [6]
Listen carefully to what I have to say, for I have thought over it long. [9]
Listen to the truth I've got to tell you. [11]
Listen a moment to the calculations of the Sheba operators. [5]
Listen to him there! [11]
Listen patiently, and promise that you will not interrupt me. [5]
Listen to poor old Barzillai, and hear him piping: "I am this day fourscore years old; and can I discern between good and evil? [6]
Listen to me now. [11]
Listen to the nightingale yonder! [10]

Sentences ending with listen

You stopped me, you would not listen. [11]
It is because you are just like me that I talk and know that you will listen. [6]
But the bishop wouldn't listen. [5]
He must consume with inward disgust while Olivier Delagarde shamelessly babbled his monstrous lies to all who would listen. [11]
By the open window at the foot of a bed in the Stay Awhile Hospital a woman gazed into the saffron splendour with an intentness which seemed to make all her body listen. [11]
But at last we see him get to the professor's head, and sort of raise up soft and look a good spell in his face and listen. [5]
Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. [2]
He approached it warily, stopping often to look about him and listen. [5]
They can calculate very easily with a slip of paper and a pencil, but not the less is their language but half intelligible as they speak and listen. [6]
Once he started up to fly, but he again heard the bewitching tones of her musical laugh, and mysterious powers detained him, forcing him to listen. [10]

Short sentences using listen

But listen a while. [10]
Will ye listen to this? [9]
Will you listen to me? [10]
I wouldn't listen to it. [9]
I couldn't listen to it. [9]
Listen, and you'll see. [5]
Listen, Mamma darling," said Natasha. [2]
But, listen, and obey. [11]
You'd better listen more carefully! [2]
Listen to me, Monsieur Doltaire. [11]

Sentences containing listen two or more times

Listen, and be patient while you listen. [11]
If you will not yet listen to the Spirit which is trying to make you comprehend, how then will you listen to me? [9]
That I would listen to you, if I did not listen to him? [11]
Clark would not listen to Monsieur Vigo, and hence the financier had, perforce, to listen to Clark. [9]
Now listen, Nancy--just listen at this: "'Come right along to Missouri! [5]
The tall, fair-haired General Buxhowden stood, leaning his back against the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen or even to wish to be thought to listen. [2]
Listen, listen! [10]

More example sentences with the word listen in them

I hunger for you--to stand beside you, to listen to your voice, to dip my prison fingers into the pure cauldron of your soul and feel my own soul expand. [11]
I would that your uncle were here to listen to them," he added dryly. [9]
She was so young, and she had shown kindness to a Hebrew surely they might listen to her. [10]
They'll listen to you, because you're eddicated. [9]
In the morning you will visit Kassandane, chat with Atossa, and listen to the teaching of your noble mother. [10]
What beauty were you dreaming of, Darius, when you went out to listen to the nightingale? [10]
Feeble hearts as you all are, respect the experience of the aged, and bless Fate if it should lame the horse of the Kadi's messenger!--However, you will not listen to anything oracular, so it will be better to talk of something else. [10]
They would not yield, they would listen to no terms, they would fight to the bitter end. [5]
It is entirely wrong because none of you, I, or anybody else, could interview a man--could listen to a man talking any length of time and then go off and reproduce that talk in the first person. [5]
I believe you would listen to me till morning if I only talked to you about my love. [10]
But all the world go there to look and listen, and are apparently well satisfied. [5]
Dear Elizabeth was wont to plead for him before she died, but I would never listen to her. [9]
This," he added, wondering that a man could listen to such a thing without a sign, "this was before--before she had any idea of coming home. [9]
Pontius had travelled with them from Thebes to Besa, and she had spared him nothing that could punish him for his long absence, and had mercilessly compelled him to listen to all her verses on Antinous. [10]
Here at noon, with parade of infantry, comes a military band to play for half an hour; and there are always plenty of idlers to listen to them. [4]
I rode down with a gentleman to the Ocean House, the other day, to see the sea horses, and also to listen to the roar of the surf, and watch the ships drifting about, here, and there, and far away at sea. [5]
Mr. Vane himself will not listen to reason. [9]
He would not--he will not listen to me. [9]
After Kaysarov, others whom Pierre knew came up to him, and he had not time to reply to all the questions about Moscow that were showered upon him, or to listen to all that was told him. [2]
They told her where the barn was and how she should stand and listen, and they handed her a fur cloak. [2]
To another theatre, where I saw Listen in Paul Pry. [6]
More than once, when the President could not hear him because of the general tumult, he sent persons to listen and report as to whether the orator was speaking to the subject or not. [5]
The time came when she had learned to listen for his step, when her eyes glistened at meeting him, when the words he uttered were treasured as from something more than a common mortal, and the book he had touched was like a saintly relic. [6]
Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin. [5]
But listen to what I'm going to tell you! [9]
You listen to what dat Depeau he say,--dat is not truth. [9]
Whether Doctor Melchior were holding converse with the broom, or the peruke, or a spectre whom he, and no one else could see Frau Schimmel could not tell, but she had then recovered herself sufficiently to be able to listen attentively. [10]
As the song went on, however, she felt the inherent suggestion in it, so that when she had finished it required all her strength to get up calmly, come among them again, and listen to their praises and thanks. [11]
And at night we would gather at the fire around our new emigrants to listen to the stories they had to tell,--familiar stories to all of us. [9]
Come, my lords, we will go, and see what there is good to drink or to listen to at the table in the next room. [10]
Listen, Bischen; if we really should be executed, go to the Magi, the Chaldwans, and Nebenchari the Egyptian, and tell them they had better not study the stars any longer, for that those very stars had proved themselves liars and deceivers to Darius. [10]
It's the only way men ever get anywhere--the politicians listen to them. [9]
His only excitement was to trudge ten miles to Dorset and listen to a three hour sermon on everlasting fire and brimstone by a man who was supposed to know. [9]
When their cage was shaken, they would lift their heads and spring their rattles; but the sound was by no means so formidable to listen to as when it reverberated among the chasms of the echoing rocks. [6]
And when none was present, she was forced to listen to Mrs. Colfax's prattle about the fashions, her tirades against the Yankees. [9]
One day I was permitted to listen to the singing of Emmy La Gruas, and the next to the peerless Schroder-Devrient. [10]
When the dessert was finally eaten, and after sunset, in the brilliant light of the lamps and candles, greater attention was paid to the mixing vessels, all remained silent to listen to his fervid speech. [10]
Once more there was a full audience on deck to listen to the sailors' chorus as they got the anchor up, and to wave an adieu to the land as we sped away from Naples. [5]
I did not want to listen, and yet I could not choose but hear. [10]
But since she walks where I am fain to sing, Since she has said, "I listen, O my friend! [11]
This kind of virtuous talk is beautiful to listen to when you and Flint get into a row. [9]
They will be very hard to say, but you must listen to them. [9]
But she accepted very cordially what our light-headed companion said about the songs he used to listen to. [6]
Mr. Redbrook's speech, vehement and honest, helps a little; people listen to an honest and forceful man, however he may lack technical knowledge, but the majority of the replies are mere incoherent denunciations of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
She tried in vain to drive them from her mind, to listen to Mrs. Tyler's account of how she, too, came as a bride to New York from some place with a classical name, and to the advice that accompanied the narration. [9]
Finally he got upon the subject of trans-continental travel, and presently said: "I can tell you a very laughable thing indeed, if you would like to listen to it. [5]
He did not understand them, yet he liked to listen, for they made him think of his dead father. [10]
You and I understand each other, Victoria, and now listen. [9]
Mrs. Colfax was under its sway, and doubly miserable because Clarence would listen to her tirades no more. [9]
Even in the twilight she recognized it at once, and when Katharina put her curly head forward, and said in a beseeching tone: "May I get through, and will you listen to me? [10]
They argued and tried to keep him out, but he wouldn't listen, and the whole show come to a standstill. [5]
She hath wisdom, too, and we must listen to her, even as I have done this day. [11]
He was never too busy to converse with them; or, it might better be said, to listen to them converse. [9]
I can't listen to you when you talk in this way. [9]
You'd better listen to what people are saying," said some of the mob pointing to the tall youth. [2]
You shall listen to what I have to say, though it is for the last time," he urged stubbornly. [11]
So she continued to watch and listen unweariedly, day after day and evening after evening, but always in vain. [10]
You must listen to this seriously, for I think the Professor was very much in earnest when he wrote it. [6]
Listen, I'm w'iting to them stwaight. [2]
If we listen to the still, small voice of realism, intense longing is always followed by disappointment. [9]
He turned round to the doorway to listen before he put his hand within the secret place. [11]
You can talk to the committees all you've a mind to, and they'll just listen and never do anything. [9]
Do not listen to the advice of this proud caste alone, but read every petition yourself, and, by appointing Nomarchs devoted to the king and beloved by the people, make yourself acquainted with the needs and wishes of the Egyptian nation. [10]
You have only to talk to my hump-backed gardener Gibbus, or listen to what he says. [10]
But Cleopatra seemed to take little pleasure in all these things, and said: "Yes, everything is admirable, just as it has always been every year for the last twenty years; but I did not come here to see but to listen. [10]
He had come to study French government in New Caledonia, to gauge the extent of the menace that the convict question bore towards Australia, and to tell his tale to Australia, and to such other countries as would listen. [11]
Still I had to stay, and listen to other people's rejoicings, because I had no money to get out of the camp with. [5]
The river-driver chose to spend his idle hours in crude, rough sprightliness; the salmon-fisher loved to lie upon the shore and listen to the village story-teller,--almost official when successful,--who played upon the credulity and imagination of his listeners. [11]
He had come to see Hugh, she understood; and she was probably going to stay where she was and listen. [9]
He will listen to no guidance, he does mischief to Egypt, and therefore I say: Down with him from the throne! [10]
When I came to myself again and began to listen, I perceived that I had lost another chapter, and that Alisande had wandered a long way off with her people. [5]
But just listen to me: We are sure you see of a hundred gold pieces at least. [10]
Will you listen to me, Monsieur? [11]
But listen, thin, to me"--her voice got lower-- "for 'tis not the furst time, a thing like that, the lady she is-- granddaughter of a Seigneur, and descinded from nobility in France! [11]
A. Farcillo, listen to me one moment; I hope you will not kill me. [5]
You must listen to me first. [10]
He sat up to listen, and it seemed as if some one called to him gently. [10]
Instead of continuing to listen to the Greek sentences which Herr Wilibald Pirckheimer was reading aloud to the others, he could not help thinking of the pious, gentle little woman who, with her cheerful kindness, so well understood how to comfort and to sustain courage. [10]
Formerly I used to listen to report with interest, and a certain credulity; but I am now grown deaf and sceptical: experience has taught me how absolutely devoid of foundation her stories may be. [14]
Have you time to listen to his two-minutes speech at Gettysburg, at the dedication of the Soldiers' Cemetery? [7]
I am ready to listen to his teaching. [10]
Do I have to listen to Clarence's horse talk for another hour? [9]
He was accustomed to listen to all that was said in the Emperor's presence, and year by year he had learnt to understand more of what he heard. [10]
Have you time to listen to a short story? [10]
We stood still to listen till the merry fellow, who had no idea that we were by, was silent again; and then hearing the architect's voice, he called to him over the screen. [10]
Whoever understood how to listen thus, and, moreover--the prominence of the brow above the nose showed it--was also a trained thinker, could not fail to be a good counsellor, and as such he was regarded by many, and first of all by the Queen. [10]
The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. [2]
She was permitted to listen only, and she was most strongly attracted to the very places where she might expect to hear rebellious words and proposals. [10]
Eva forced herself to listen and behave as if her account of Heinz Schorlin's wonderful escape and desire to enter a monastery was news to her. [10]
You are going to kill me, but listen so that you will know how to speak to her afterwards, understanding what I said as I died. [11]
Erasmus, however, trusted to his strength and nimbleness and, instead of promptly taking flight, entreated Barbara to listen to him a moment. [10]
And they listen to his blarneying, and say, "Aiwa, Saadat! [11]
Far from attempting to hide or ignore the struggle by which she and her husband had attained their present position, she referred with the utmost naivete to incidents in her career, while the whole table paused to listen. [9]
I could speak to her, and attract no notice; and if she will not listen to me, why, then, that ends it. [11]
He wasn't going to have Nat Parsons coming back bragging about seeing the balloon, and him having to listen to it and keep quiet. [5]
When we listen to evidence like this, we cannot but believe. [5]
I had nothing to do but listen to the pattering of the fountains and take medicine and throw it up again. [5]
I don't pretend to be a paragon of virtue, but I have a kind of a conscience which tells me when I am doing wrong, if I listen to it. [9]
It were best to attempt to record the intangible things; the golden-green light, the perfumes, and the faint musical laughter which we can hear if we listen. [9]
Unfortunately, he was to atone only too speedily for this offence against medical advice, for his heated blood increased the twinges of the gout to such a degree that he was compelled to relinquish his desire to listen to the exquisite singing longer. [10]

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