" He started, and both men tried to look at their ease as a stiff rustling sounded from the stairs.

They were all rustling and stirring in their places, very uneasy at the interruption.

What is that sudden rustling among the leaves?

What is the meaning of the noise around us, of the trampling of people's feet, of the rustling of the bow, the quiver, and the lance?

The low cries of animals were imitated to prevent any alarm being given by the breaking of a twig or the rustling of the leaves.

I brought my rifle to my shoulder, and was in the act of pulling the trigger, when a slight rustling in the grass at my right attracted my attention.

"The white poplars, swaying night and day above my grave, should seem to utter prayers for my soul in the rustling of their green and silver leaves.

Suddenly a bugle sounds; the judge enters his box; the ever popular old 'Bikram,' who officiates as starter, ambles off on his white cob, and after him go half-a-dozen handsome young fellows, their silks rustling and flashing through the fast rising mist.

There is an irregular line of stately elephants, each with its towering howdah and dusky mahout, moving slowly along through the rustling reeds.

A margin of close sward, as green and level as a billiard-table, encircled the glade, and in the basin the thick nurkool grew up close, dense, and high, like a rustling barrier of living green.

They are pretty courageous in facing anything before them, but they do not like a rustling or indeed any motion in their rear.

I rose, rustling from the hay, and went to tea, which I forget, whether we found or brought.

Rustling leaves, and murmuring fountain, Fill with melody the air, Blending with the wild birds' singing, Such sweet sounds can banish care.

I fan the airy silence till it starts In rustling whispers, swallowed up as soon; I warm the chilly ether with my breath; I with the beating of my heart make glad The desert blue.

She heard a rustling as if he had stretched himself on the bed, a sound like a long-drawn sigh.

If the day was very sad for this important reason, it was also very glad, for rustling Morgan advertised the day of closing far and wide, and his most casual patrons dropped all business to attend the big doings.

At a rustling in a near-by willow, Terry Jordan started and then cursed softly to himself.

This kept me awake a long time, and I often fancied I heard a rustling among the leaves, as if one of the dreaded animals were breaking through.

He heard a rustling in the bushes at one side of the garden, and the sound of a breaking twig, and, seizing a hoe which stood by the door, he sprang toward the point from which the sound came.

In an instant!vaulttablesaintsbellchurch, faded into air; a rustling hiss of wings was all that was heard; and Larry felt his cheek swept by a current, as if a covey of birds of enormous size were passing him.

Oh! for the glorious pranks and plays, The raptures of Langsyne! Langsyne!yes, In the sound, I hear The rustling of the summer grove, And view those angel features near, Which first awoke the heart to love.

Strange how realistic dreams can be; I distinctly heard the rustling of their feet on the paper.

Riders of the Rio Grande; a cattle-rustling mystery story.

Their path soon began to be a wild clamber among the mountains, now lost in the shadow of groves of gray, rustling olives, whose knotted, serpent roots coiled round the rocks, and whose leaves silvered in the moonlight whenever the wind swayed them.

I'll warrant me, he made a rustling among them when he said that, and the Pope's commissaryold Romalinothen whispered and frowned; but Agnolo is a stiff old fellow when he once begins a thing,he never minded it, and went through with his say.