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Sentences starting with listening

Listening intently, I thought it came from the side of the cabin where the lean-to was, where we stored our wood in winter. [9]
Listening to the story of the struggle between love and duty, Pierre saw before his eyes every minutest detail of his last meeting with the object of his love at the Sukharev water tower. [2]
Listening intently, she said to herself that, during the many thousand times when she had talked with him in fancy, it had also seemed as if she heard him speak. [10]
Listening to Bilibin he was already imagining how on reaching the army he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the executing of the plan. [2]
Listening at the door for a moment, I suddenly and softly turned the handle and entered, to see the good Mother with a panel drawn in the wall before her, and her face set to it. [11]
Listening to who? [9]

Sentences ending with listening

His pipe lay with its scattered ashes on the boards, and his head was bent forward, as though listening. [9]
Aunt Kate sat with her feet on a hassock, rocking gently and watching and listening. [11]
Her mind only was listening. [11]
Now, the chamber was in a corner, so that the window faced another way, but the incident seemed strange to her, and she stood for a moment listening. [11]
As though in very truth he saw with his eyes, he stopped short not far from the point where the bridge joined the land, and stood still, listening. [11]
But others help us do the listening. [6]
Ditmar, who was to have led her out of captivity, had only thrust her the deeper into bondage.... She joined the group, halting on the edge of it, listening. [9]
He had not time to say it, for Natasha, with a pale and set face, entered the room from the door at which she had been listening. [2]
Now this whole thing was a practical joke, and the robbers were personal friends of ours in disguise, and twenty more lay hidden within ten feet of us during the whole operation, listening. [5]
Everybody that seen the shooting was telling how it happened, and there was a big crowd packed around each one of these fellows, stretching their necks and listening. [5]

Short sentences using listening

I am listening to you. [2]
But Euphrasia was not listening. [9]
Her father stood near, listening. [11]
But he was listening. [9]
The priest stood listening. [11]
Mahommed Ibrahim was listening without. [11]
Talk again--the country is listening. [5]
He had evidently been listening. [11]
Natasha was listening and considering. [2]
I'm listening, recollect. [12]

Sentences containing listening two or more times

Suddenly, as she came on, she stopped and raised her head in a listening attitude, her eyes opening wide as if listening, too--it was as though she heard with them as well; alive to catch sounds which evaded capture. [11]

More example sentences with the word listening in them

I don't believe you will find much pleasure in listening to his fine speeches. [6]
Is there any wrong in my listening to you? [11]
How gladly I would spare myself my own praises, and you the necessity of listening to them! [10]
At his last word Dingan, who had been standing abstractedly listening, as it were, swung round on him with a muttered oath, and the skin of his face appeared to tighten. [11]
Here stood a wooden bench on which Wilhelm liked to sit, watching the flight of his doves, gazing dreamily into the distance or, when inclined to artistic creation, listening to the melodies that echoed in his soul. [10]
I have sat with him by the hour listening to Jim Nye's yarns, and I reckon you know the style of Jim Nye's histories, Clemens. [5]
She was listening with eager attention, with passionate expectation; her convulsively clenched toes betrayed her. [10]
He sat listening with a troubled look. [9]
There were times when Cynthia leaned over him, listening as he breathed to know whether he slept or were awake. [9]
Mr. Oliphant is what many of us call a mystic, and I found a singular pleasure in listening to him. [6]
Then he repeated what he had heard while listening outside of her tent, and her glance confirmed the tale. [10]
The Celebrity had weighed Miss Thorn's words and was listening passively now while she talked. [9]
The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable while listening to the soothing patter of the rain against the balcony windows. [5]
If we do, we shall be likely to sit in some delicious place, listening to the band playing in the "Restauration," and to the nightingales, till the moon comes up. [4]
The evening after we had left New York, while we were still off the coast of Long Island, I saw on the poop a crowd of steerage passengers listening intently to harangues by speakers addressing them from the top of a pile of life rafts. [9]
But I suspect we can't manage that--even your infallible Fulkerson couldn't work it--and I'm afraid that there'll be some listening that 'll spoil the pleasure of the time. [8]
When we think we are thinking, we are for the most part only listening to sound of attrition between these inert elements of intelligence. [6]
The young hermit was soon only half listening to all she said, for his attention had been riveted by the armor which lay before him, and which gave a new direction to his excited feelings. [10]
But Cynthia, who was listening with one ear while Susan talked into the other, gathered that Jethro had been struggling with the railroads, and was sooner or later to engage in a mightier struggle with them. [9]
But when I was listening to the hymn to the Virgin yesterday, it seemed as if an angel from heaven was singing from her lips. [10]
Chubby little Dokhturov was listening attentively with eyebrows raised and arms folded on his stomach. [2]
And sometimes they walked together through wooded paths that led them to beetling shores, and sat listening to the waves crashing far below. [9]
I sat there waiting--waiting--waiting, and listening to the rattling sashes and the blustering of the storm. [5]
What could two voiceless people say to each other, people who only spoke with their hearts and souls, when others were staring at them, watching every act, listening for every word. [11]
Many people were visible--all were listening, not one was moving. [5]
It is a very bad thing for the memory and the judgment to get into a habit of reading carelessly or listening with distracted attention. [4]
When he jumped up he did not run at once, but pricked his ears listening to the shouting and trampling that resounded from all sides at once. [2]
Then, and not until then, Daniel Quilp himself, the cause and occasion of all this clamour, was observed to be in the room, looking on and listening with profound attention. [12]
John buried him under the twin hawthorn-trees,--one white and the other pink,--in a spot where Calvin was fond of lying and listening to the hum of summer insects and the twitter of birds. [4]
They walked out under the trees to the brook-side and stood listening to the tinkling of the cowbells in the wood lot beyond. [9]
After that Virginia took long drives with her father, and coming home, they would sit in the summer house high above the Merimec, listening to the crickets' chirp, and watching the day fade upon the water. [9]
An inward voice told him that his more experienced senior might be right, but at the same time he hated and contemned himself for listening to its warnings at all. [10]
Mr. Wetherell began to wish he could witness the scene there, too, but something held him here, shaking with excitement, listening to each name that the clerk called. [9]
But not listening to what Firhoff was saying, he was gazing now at the sovereign and now at the men intending to dance who had not yet gathered courage to enter the circle. [2]
Prince Andrew, listening to this polyglot talk and to these surmises, plans, refutations, and shouts, felt nothing but amazement at what they were saying. [2]
He was listening to the general's report--which consisted chiefly of a criticism of the position at Tsarevo-Zaymishche--as he had listened to Denisov, and seven years previously had listened to the discussion at the Austerlitz council of war. [2]
Involuntarily listening now to the firing, which had drawn nearer and was increasing in strength, Alpatych hurried to his inn. [2]
She was listening to the ceaseless moaning of the adjutant, three houses off. [2]
The countess began to soothe Natasha, who after first listening to her mother's words, suddenly interrupted her: "Leave off, Mamma! [2]
The future was to show the disadvantage of listening to the voice of the heart in political affairs. [10]
It was easy to see that what he was listening to touched him painfully, and that the two diametrically different men were fighting a battle which could never lead to any satisfactory issue. [10]
And after listening to Miss Penniman I take this opportunity to declare, of my own free will, that I will add my vote to that of Judge Graves to reinstate Miss Wetherell. [9]
He desired her to come home with him at once, and she rose to obey, listening in silence to his assurances that the lives of Karnis and Orpheus would not be worth a sesterce if they fell into the hands of the Roman soldiers. [10]
Rostov rode up to Bagration, reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the generals were saying. [2]
She stood with tightened lips, during the Apostles' Creed, listening to his voice as it rose, strong and unfaltering, above the murmur of the congregation. [9]
This reflection flashed through her mind with the speed of lightning while she was listening to Althea's conversation with the sculptor. [10]
Three hours later this same man crouched by the drawing-room window of the Wandenong homestead and looked in, listening to the same voice, until Barbara Golding entered the room and took a seat near the piano, with her face turned full towards him. [11]
And now, before this new manifestation of that form of cosmic vitality which we call electricity, I feel like taking the posture of the peasants listening to the Angelus. [6]
Now you would think that the first thing the king would do after listening to such a novelette from an entire stranger, would be to ask for credentials--yes, and a pointer or two as to locality of castle, best route to it, and so on. [5]
I considered many things, while listening to your story, and on account of my liking for you I will tell you this. [10]
While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales. [2]
As they stood there, silently listening, the sound of two horses galloping swiftly away fell on their ear, and after a longer interval a prolonged whistle from the Nile and a cry of distress. [10]
So they sat there, he talking, she listening and questioning now and then. [11]
As he stood there listening, hatred and horror in his heart, a voice said to him: "Thou shalt do no murder. [11]
As he stood there listening in the gathering dusk, she could not tell from his face what he thought. [9]
Why is it, then, that you bore yourself by regarding Institutions and listening to sermons in your jeunesse? [9]
She had learned them by listening to old Hekt, who often used to play on a lute in the dusk, and who, when she perceived that Uarda caught the melodies, had pointed out her faults, and given her advice. [10]
Little farmers on their way to the market by the Place de Cathedral stopped, listening, though every moment's delay lessened their chances of getting a stand in the market- place. [11]
The mother of the youth that had been killed still sat huddled at the foot of the statue of justice, enduring the anguish of listening to these drunken revels with dull resignation. [10]
She sat by the window listening to his voice which reached her from the garden. [2]
The hope of the revolutionists bore these strokes and others as mighty with complacency, as though they had been so many playful taps; and while the battle surged hotly around him he sat calmly listening or making occasional notes with a gold pencil. [9]
While listening to the resurrection hymn of the priests of Serapis, she had asked herself if it might not be possible to give Antony, when he had been roused to fresh energy, the son of Caesar as a companion in arms. [10]
Often, listening to the pilgrims' tales, she was so stimulated by their simple speech, mechanical to them but to her so full of deep meaning, that several times she was on the point of abandoning everything and running away from home. [2]
They withdrew to the parlor, and the two old ladies began to discuss with interest the strange things which they had been listening to. [5]
While listening to the officer's report Konovnitsyn broke the seal and read the dispatch. [2]
For many minutes the lord and his servants remained on their knees in silence, their eyes fixed on the sacred star, and listening to the pious chant of the priests. [10]
I noticed that the Lady was listening to the conversation with a look of more than usual interest. [6]
There must be the inspiration of the clash of minds and the encouragement of good listening. [4]
Presently Ingolby felt the floor of the bridge under his feet; and now he hastened on, with outstretched arms and head bent forward, listening intently, the dog trotting beside, with what knowledge working in him Heaven alone knew. [11]
Victoria stood before the fire listening to the sound of the wheels gradually growing fainter, and her mind refused to work. [9]
As soon as the fine spring days came we found great crowds listening to bearded orators, who told them of the revolution in Paris and of the addresses to the king--how they had passed hither and thither, and how they had been received. [10]
A part of the entertainment at this ceremony consisted in the listening to the reading of short extracts from the prize essays, some or all of them in the dead languages, which could not have been particularly intelligible to a large part of the audience. [6]
He went toward the doorway that led into the garden, and there he halted and stood listening. [9]
The Seigneur and the Cure had ceased listening to the babble of M. Dauphin, who seemed not to know that his audience closed its ears and found refuge in a "Well, well! [11]
He sat in the caleche, dozing and waking up by turns, and listening for any sound of firing on the right as an indication that the action had begun. [2]
Here Lassiter rested the burros for a little while, but he was restless, uneasy, silent, always listening, peering under the trees. [13]
Gorgo sat by the bed of her apparently lifeless father, gazing fondly at the worn and wax-like features, and listening to his breathing, now soft and easy and again painful and convulsive, as it fluttered through his nostrils. [10]
In the hope that you are listening, and that you have confidence in me, I will proceed. [5]
I'd wager now that you and he have been listening by the old well. [12]
Hence it ensued, that what her mind has gathered of the real concerning them, was too exclusively confined to those tragic and terrible traits, of which, in listening to the secret annals of every rude vicinage, the memory is sometimes compelled to receive the impress. [14]
I won't deny that sometimes, on rare occasions, when I have been in company with gentlemen who preferred listening, I have been guilty of the same kind of usurpation which my friend openly justified. [6]
He never knew that Sid lay nightly watching, and frequently slipped the bandage free and then leaned on his elbow listening a good while at a time, and afterward slipped the bandage back to its place again. [5]
Slowly he realized that he was listening to the Speaker's deep voice. [9]
Some of The Teacups have listened outside once in a while, for the Tutor reads well, and his clear voice must be heard in the more emphatic passages, whether one is expressly listening or not. [6]
She had been talking with him and listening to him one day when the boarders moved from the table nearly all at once. [6]
Marquis Paulucci was talking to him with particular warmth and the Emperor, with his head bent to the left, was listening with a dissatisfied air. [2]
They sat and talked, with no word of England in it at all, Jacques near, listening. [11]
There at his table sat the dark, impenetrable operator, whose time was exactly apportioned, serene, saturnine, or genial, as the case might be, listening attentively, speaking deliberately, despatching the affair in hand without haste or the waste of a moment. [4]
With a movement suggestive of tenderness she was picking up Ditmar's pen to set it in the glass rack when her ear caught the sound of voices, and she stood transfixed, listening intently. [9]
Luc once more struggled to his feet, eagerly listening. [11]
And now the stranger stepped back one pace, took off his soldier-cap, tossed it into the wing, and began to speak, with deliberation, nobody listening, everybody laughing and whispering. [5]
Presently, as she stood watching, listening, and strangely moved in spite of herself by the sudden dramatic turn which things had taken, a seat was brought to her. [11]
But, as he stood telling his beads, abstractedly listening to the scandal talked by Achmet and Higli, he was not thinking of his brother, but of the two who had just left the chamber. [11]
But as she stood intently listening, the red glow from the fire behind her, again came the cry--"Pauline! [11]
The Intendant still stood in his carriage watching and listening to the cheers of the people. [11]
I set perfectly still then, listening to my heart thump, and I reckon I didn't draw a breath while it thumped a hundred. [5]
Dr. Lecher is still peacefully speaking, the stenographers listening at his lips. [5]
Napoleon was silent, still looking derisively at him and evidently not listening to him. [2]
He had been standing opposite to her, as if spellbound, listening blissfully to the lofty flight of his own words. [10]
The prisoner was standing at the window, pressing her brow against the iron bars and listening to the lute played by her lover, which sounded, amid the turmoil of the other prisoners, like a bell above the roar of thunder and the storm. [10]

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