"Don't you get kind o' tired listenin' to that noise?

"To what were you listenin'?"

Take a turn about the works, listenin' to all that is said, an' you'll find I'm not wrong in my figgerin'.

" "You was listenin' quite a while," muttered Bull.

Wasn't you?" "Wasn't you listenin' to what Racey said at the time?

Yep, I'm shore glad we stood here a-listenin' like we have.

"We were here beside the door listenin' from the time McFluke said he was too comfortable to move out of here."

I sat up late that first night listenin' to the wild geese honkin' away up in the sky an' wonderin' why I was so happy.

Dan is accused of about an even half of 'em, an' the friends of dead men don't waste no time listenin' to arguments.

an' narry?ev'ry third reound, tell yer 've got nineteen stetches acrost yer thumb; then ye knit, 'ithout widdenin', a matter uv seven or eight reounds more,you listenin', Emerline?" "Lor', Miss Jemimy, don't you know better than to ask questions when I'm counting?

"And my aunt med answer again: 'Let them pull faces, ma'am, and say what they will; if the Lord be for us, who can be against us?' "I kept listenin' with my ear turned to the door, holdin' my breath, but not another word or sound came in from the room.

"I kep' looking at the picture-book, as before, listenin' every noo and then, but there was no sound, not a breath, that I could hear; an' I began whisperin' to the pictures and talkin' to myself to keep my heart up, for I was growin' feared in that big room.

I'm listenin' fer you to say it now, Walt Wagner.

FENNESSEY I'm sick and tired of listenin' to you and your excuses, but I'm not goin' to listen to them any longer.

"And the poor, innocent child a-sittin' there a-listenin' to every word.

Ah do, an' I'll sit here listenin' as quiet as a mouse.

o' fools to be listenin' to it.

The evenin' was hot an' the window open; an' now all the town that wasn' listenin' to the trial was gathered in front, gazin' cur'ously at the woman inside.

Well, we made quite a long call and cheered her up considerable by listenin' to some more of her most eloquent and unlikely fabrications, and then bid her good-bye.

Oh, you're listenin', are you?

Seems like God's been listenin' pretty close, around here!" He turned his horse, and Haw-Haw, reluctantly, followed suit.

And I had to tell her stories about Dan and what he'd used to do, and she' sit with her eyes miles away from me, listenin' an smilin' and me there hungerin' for just one look out of her eyeshungerin' like a dyin' dog for water.

I'se listenin' to de angels hammerin' overhead, an' Mrs. Raymun' will hab to wait a spellhe!

He'd forgit to charge 'em, he'd be so busy listenin'.

" "I don't have to go to work 'til sunup," Casey hinted broadly, "and I've set up many a night when I wasn't havin' half as much fun as I git listenin' to you talk.