One can readily understand how many and great they were, and how we twisted and turned each additional bit of information which we gathered by eavesdropping, until it seemed as if matters which had no bearing whatsoever on our condition were a direct and deadly menace.

" Monk snorted, and grumbled over his food throughout the remainder of the meal; but later, coming upon a group composed of Liane Delorme, Lanyard and Phinuit, in the saloon, he paused, looked this way and that to make sure none of the stewards was within eavesdropping distance, and graciously unbent a little.

" "And eavesdropping, I suppose?" insinuated Miss Lavinia.

"You will pardon me, gentlemen, for eavesdropping, but I was curious to know what you thought of this remarkable young man who calls himself 'A. Jones.'

But, lo! this child makes his dramatic entrance into the presence of the court, and, under the inspired guidance of defendant's counsel, tells his story of eavesdropping, and when it is done my learned friend has the temerity to ask you to throw away your reason, to dismiss logic from your minds, to trample law under your feet, to scatter the evidence to the four winds of heaven, and to believe what?

So absolute was the submergence of that ardent adventurer who, overnight, had lain awake for hours, a dictograph receiver glued to his ear, eavesdropping upon the traffic of those malevolent intelligences assembled in Prince Victor's study, and alternately chuckling and cursing beneath his breath, aflame with indignation and chilled by inklings of atrocities unspeakable abrew!

Besides, he evidently didn't intend me to, and I had no wish to spoil the good impression I had apparently made by any appearance of eavesdropping.

Hilda peered along the landing from her lair, and upstairs and downstairs; she could see nothing but senseless carpets and brass rods and steps and banisters; but she knew that the entire householdshe had the sensation that the very house itselfwas alert and eavesdropping.

[Fr.], flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire [Fr.], scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.

But how? THE BLACKBIRD I was having my early snack cozily in the earthenware retreat you see, when suddenlyoh, allow me to express at once the amazement, the admiration CHANTECLER Eavesdropping inside a pot!

"Thank you," said Halloway, coming quickly to her side, anxious to avoid further eavesdropping.

Similarly, in an able play named Mr. and Mrs. Daventry, Mr. Frank Harris had conceived a situation which required that the scene should be specially built for eavesdropping.

He looked at the nearest midgets resentfully, suspecting them of eavesdropping.

"This'll be jolly, if it don't turn to eavesdropping.

By eavesdropping those who were now convicted and confronting them with their own words, confessions were procured implicating many others who in turn were put on trial, including Gullah Jack whose necromancy could not save him.

I did not come there with a view to eavesdropping.

The reverend gentleman seems to combine with his talent for eavesdropping a most remarkable good-fortune in the contrasts afforded by the various interlocutors whose conversation he overhears.

"And I suppose you have overhead our entire conversation?" "The whole lot of it," said Ronicky, "though I wasn't playing my hand at eavesdropping.

Keith's patient, embarrassed, masterful wooing as if I had been shamefully eavesdropping.

Our friends the saints are too high in heavenly things to make mischief by eavesdropping.

Everybody seems eavesdropping on everybody else.

He was jeered and laughed at hilariously; when he went on to say that a "Black Chamber" was spying on his every movement, shadowing other members of the Reichstag, even eavesdropping on their telephone conversations and opening their private correspondence.

“Eavesdropping for two!”—it was the voice of Olivia.

“I was eavesdropping on my own account,” she said hurriedly and with a note of finality.

" "I was not eavesdropping," I screamed.