How does he strike you?" Lethal cast his eyes around to see who listened.

I listened in terror.

" With his marvellously quick insight, after having listened to the speeches of which force was the leading motive (the tendency round him was not to establish a lasting peace but to vivisect Germany), Lloyd George saw that it was not a true peace that was being prepared.

Sitting on her father's knee she listened eagerly to his recital of the brave deeds of Greeks and Romans and the wise sayings of Plutarch.

She listened, prettily eager, sweetly compassionate of the sorrows of the peasantry whom he made the object of his simple pity.

They raised their heads and listened to the galloping feet with the patient, dumb despair which is the curse of the Slavonic race.

Had Madge been a pious Protestant she naturally might have examined the question of divorce on its own merits; she might have weighed the pros and cons of the problem; she might have consulted God in prayer, and have listened to this clergyman on one side; and to that, on the other: but eventually she would have been thrown upon herself; she would have had no one whose decision she was bound to obey.

" His companions listened to this brief statement with an intense interest, with which the packet of poor Mr. Monday, however, had very little connection.

Indulgent Nature smiled in every part, And filled with joy unknown my ravished heart: Attent I listened while the feathered throng Alternate finished and renewed their song.

He listened eagerly, but without interruption until the end.

I went over to the door and listened, but there was no way for me to lock him in.

They listened earnestly, asking an occasional question, and passing comments back and forth freely among themselves.

He listened gravely to what I had to say, with little comment, and was evidently weighing every argument in his mind.

The three chums, however, listened and exchanged looks with one another as some particularly thrilling incident came along, as though they could imagine Jerry facing that big yellow brute that chased him round and round the tree until he was dizzy enough to drop ere he remembered that he had a gun in his hand.

Children of refined, cultivated parents, who have listened to family conversation, who have been talked to and encouraged to express themselves,these are able to understand much more lofty themes than the poor little mites who are only familiar with plain, practical ideas, and rough speech confined to the most ordinary wants of life.

As he held his baby in his arms and listened to her gentle crowing and heard the merry prattle of his boy at play, he asked himself if he should ever see those children again, were he to go away.

He listened for a moment, and then hurried on to the spring.

John listened to hear some animal, but not a growl and not a cry came on the air.

The man and child without a word sank down upon the wooden benches and listened to the conversation of some men who were drinking in the tap-room.

By degrees he became quiet and listened.

After a while he sat up and listened for a long time; but there was not a sound.

No one but God listened to him as he read the solemn and impressive burial service, according to the established church.

Mr. Heatherbloom listened; perhaps he would have liked to retreat then and there from that house; but it was too late!

Even he listened with profound attention to the chaplain, never changing his eye from his face, unless to glance at the coffins as they lay in their final resting-place.

After they had attentively listened till such time, as the sound, by little and little, went from them; EUGENIUS [i.e., Lord BUCKHURST] lifting up his head, and taking notice of it, was the first to congratulate to the rest, that happy Omen of our nation's victory: adding, "we had but this to desire, in confirmation of it, that we might hear no more of that noise, which was now leaving the English coast.