20 adjectives to describe listenings
He had lain awake listening to the throb of the engine with an aching heart, and with every longing for the country he had left behind growing stronger, every recollection growing more vivid and intense.
" This was greeted with another scattered rattle of laughter, followed by a silence, which indicated intense listening.
The heart of Christalan, that beat so faint, And oft so wearily, beat fast and strong In anxious listening.
The truth is, very little listening is done in this part of the world.
"I'm the only visitor to-night?" said Hardy, after an hour's patient listening and waiting.
Her whole attitude was one of tense listening.
But before turning it he stood an instant listening.
But a little careful explanation on my part, and a little attentive listening on hers, ultimately changed her opinion.
Mrs. Chalk, upstairs listening, thought that he would never have finished, and drew her own conclusions.
It violates our mental habits, being a kind of passive and receptive listening quite contrary to that effort to react noisily and verbally on everything, which is our usual intellectual pose.
The boys would not have tired listening till the evening, but suddenly Fido came, and as if he knew that with such a dog as Dunaj he mustn't start a fight, just licked his comrades and was friendly to the stranger.
Kazan isn't going to take to him worth a cent!" Kazan heard the girl's voice, and stood rigid and motionless listening to it.
Prattling, the river lisps of love and of repose And in the distance shimmers, faintly dies; A flower, secret listening as its message flows, A roguish kiss of gratitude in fragrance blows, While beckoning stars smile from the silent skies.
The cardinal virtues are diligentia, sedulous listening for the commands of the reason; obedientia, the execution of these justitia, the conforming of the whole life to what is perceived to be right; finally, humilitas, the recognition of our impotency and self-renunciation (inspectio and despectio, or derelictio, neglectus, contemptus, incuria sui).
and so stood leaning upon his spade listening to: "That deep hush which seems a sigh Breathed by Earth to listening sky.
Everybody seemed to be talkingnobody listening.
When, tired with human ails, And tedious listening to the sick man's tales, Sore spent, and fretted, he comes home at eve, By mild medicaments you his toils deceive.
Then the conversation turned on Pet's education; Marcus and her father fondly discussing what it ought to be, and Bog listening, and looking stealthily at the young girl, still busy at her work; and they all sat, happy in thoughts of the future, far into the twilight.
She had learned through her almost constant listening that Lieutenant Kramer was a regular visitor, coming to the Hoff apartment or seeing Frederic Hoff somewhere every other day.
Zara had been unable to resist the current of light-hearted gayety which was in the air, and now felt considerably better; so she allowed Lord Elterton to sit beside her after tea and pour homage at her feet, with the expression of an empress listening to an address of loyalty from some distant colony; and the Crow leant back in his chair and chuckled to himself, much to Lady Anningford's annoyance.