17304 examples of listen in sentences
His delight Was to keep him whole hours standing in front of his door, obliged to listen and to pay attention to all his words.
Recognising equality with no one but Luna, to him only he addressed his conversation, as though the others had no other duty but to listen to him in silence; if anyone spoke to him he pretended not to hear, but continued addressing Gabriel.
Now I've found you, and I'm going to tell you all, and you've got to listen to me.
and I guess, since you have been So distant from us now for two long years, That you will gladly listen to discourse, However trivial, if you thence be taught 15 That they, with whom you once were happy, talk Familiarly of you and of old times.
Delighted much to listen to those sounds, And feeding thus our fancies, we advanced Along the indented shore; when suddenly, Through a thin veil of glittering haze was seen 45 Before us, on a point of jutting land, The tall and upright figure of a Man Attired in peasant's garb, who stood alone, Angling beside the margin of the lake.
" "Dear to be sure, how strange," put in Mrs. Cross, again pausing in the act of mastication, and preparing to listen to further details with heightened interest.
Well, I did get tired o' watchin' en layin' there, starin' and sighin', so I did begin to tell en about somebody I did think a deal on then, but have a-changed my mind about now; and he did listen and laugh a bit, but I could see he were a-thinkin' about his own sweetheart all the time.
The crowds listen respectfully now, and the police are friendly.
Listen to the wintry blast Moaning, shrieking, howling past, Striking with tremendous force Rocks and forests in its course; But it blows the windmills strong, And it sends big ships along.
Let us listen, for we may hear too: "My home," began the Waterdrop, "is in the wide blue sea, where I live with many, many other drops.
I never made them listen to sermons, or even to lectures.
" "If anybody will listen to his reading.
Instantly he dismissed the thought that had forced itself into his mind, and began to listen attentively to the proceedings of the conference.
She pauses to listen.
"These English are putting every man they have got into a final and ridiculous attempt to make us listen to peace terms.
Having furnished the topic, you need only listen; and you are sure to be thought not only agreeable, but thoroughly sensible and well-informed.
" To listen well is almost as great an art as to talk well.
It is not enough only to listen.
Having furnished the topic, you need only listen; and you are sure to be thought not only agreeable, but thoroughly sensible and well-informed.
" To listen well, is almost as great an art as to talk well.
It is not enough only to listen.
But at last she said, nestling closer, "Tristram, won't you listen to the story that I must tell you?
How can I listen to anything but the music of your whispers, when you tell me you love me and are my very own!" Zara did, however, finally get him to understand the whole history from beginning to end.
They have met to listen to words of passion and bitterness, to doctrines of strife, to denunciations and criminations against their fellow-men.
I am almost ashamed to acknowledge that I would hold my breath and strain my ear at times to listen to these murmured stories, self-addressed, as I have never done to receive the finest ebullitions of eloquence or the veriest marvels of the raconteur.
