17304 examples of listens in sentences

The king had to speak the few first words, to which the audience never listens, to make some brief replies in the first scene, and then not to speak again until the end of the fourth act.

Draws off, discovers Philander and Alcander with Musick at the Chamber-door of Erminia; to them Pisaro, who listens whilst the Song is sung.

He listens to us, He reads our thoughts.

My familiar ghost again Stands or squats where suits him best; Critic, son of Conscious Brain, Listens, watches, takes no rest.

But at the Mir every one talks at once and no one listens; is it not so?" The man made no reply.

[Goes and listens at the dungeon.

As loud as any mill, or near it; Meek as a lamb the Pony moves, And Johnny makes the noise he loves, 100 And Betty listens, glad to hear it.

" She listens, but she cannot hear The foot of horse, the voice of man; The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, 285 You hear it now, if e'er you can.

" A gleam of joy irradiated the face of Gelsomina, who turned eagerly to the listening monk, as she continued "His Highness listens," she said, "and we shall prevail!

LISA LISTENS III.

"Maud is the last person I should suspect of neglect of this nature; I do assure you, Bob, no one listens to news of your promotions and movements with more interest than Maud.

Ah! who can in language of mortals reveal The anguish that none but a mother can feel, When man in his vile lust of mammon hath trod On her child, who is stricken and smitten of God! Blind, helpless, forsaken, with strangers alone, She hears in her anguish his piteous moan, As he eagerly listensbut listens in vain, To catch the loved tones of his mother again!

He listens for some manifestation of the deity; he is ready to do His bidding.

Is it not lamentable that, after all, whether it is the Cock, or the Poet, that listens, should be left entirely to the Reader's conjectures?

He is wondrously capricious to seem a judgment, and listens with a sour attention to what he understands not.

Without speaking of the fellows covered with gold-tinsel who repeat in unknown language the pater-nosters to which no one listens.

He is less of a boy, in fact, than Tom, if one may judge by the thoughtfulness of his face, which is somewhat paler than we could wish, but his figure is well-knit and active, and all his old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, as he listens to the broken talk, and joins in every now and then.

Is it not very difficult to believe thoroughly that the great God whom we hear about, really and truly cares how we behave and what we doreally and truly listens to our prayersreally and truly takes as much interest in us as our earthly Fathers and Mothers do?

No wonder the Painter is a little confused as he listens to him.

While D'Arnot listens.

How Bill's idea of building a radio broadcasting station was carried out will be told in "Bill Brown Listens In.

Krishna listens and at once agrees to go, while Nanda sends out a town-crier to announce by beat of drum that all the cowherds should get ready to leave the next day.

Krishna listens and is silent.

Krishna quietly listens to this outburst.

The Irish nation is no more famed for its chastity than the Mohawk, but I know that she listens when the forest callslistens with savant ears, Ormond, and her dozen drops of dusky blood set her pulses flying to the free call of the Wolf clan!" "Do you know her well?"

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