Phoebus is present: glad he is to sing a merry song; Now helps the work, now full of hope upon the harp doth play; The Sisters listen to the song that charms their toil away.

" I checked my impatience, and listened with all my ears to the wonders he related.

During the first few hours, I sat, alert, listening for any sound that might help to tell me if anything were stirring down below.

His countrymen, not having the vivacity of our ladies, listened in silence till he had ended, when an aged chief stepped forth, and remarked that he too, when a young man, had visited their Great Father Washington, in New-York, who had received him as a son, and treated him with all the delicacies that his country afforded, but had given him no ice.

The men listened at the crevices of the rock.

Grady seemed already acquainted with the details of d'Aurelle's death, for he listened without interrupting, only nodding from time to time.

He was standing now looking up at the latch, high, and made for white men, eager, breathing fast, listening to that dismal sound that is like nothing else in naturelistening as might an exiled Scot to the skirl of bagpipes; listening as a Tyrolese who hears yodelling on foreign hills, or as the dweller in a distant land to the sound of the dear home speech.

Know ye in what place she grieves, listening like me to the screams of the wild bird?

For it was the self-same noise I had heard when listening from below.

The wind, whose tender whisper in the May Set all the young blooms listening through the grove, Sits rustling in the faded boughs to-day And makes his cold and unsuccessful love.

" Again, "Listening on the road, and repeating in the lanethis is abandonment of virtue.

"Don't listen outside the door.

Lord, Jack, it seems a century since I used to listen by the hour to The Triumph of Time and Dolores!"

For a long time he sat and listened after that howl.

I was afraid to go out straight to the soldiers, but would take a few steps at a time, then stop and listen behind a tree or the shrubbery.

Oh, this the song I sing, well they listen unto me?

Once, as Rudolph bent listening over the shaft, there seemed to come a faint momentary gleam; but no sound, and no further sign, until the head and shoulders burrowed up again.

Again she howled, with Kazan quivering and listening beside her, and again there followed that dead stillness of the night.

You can beat me ketchin' 'em!" Several times to-night I have gone across and listened under Georgiana's window.

I'll teach you to be listening about in closets," (giving the ear a fresh tweak,) "you eavesdropper!

In this way, while I listened between stupefaction and rapture, a considerable time had elapsed; till at last the spirit departed, as I learned from the words of Torquato; who, turning to me, said, 'From this day forward all your doubts will have vanished from your mind.'

" Dick listened during this solemn comedy of immature doctrinal induction, his eyes dilating with wonder and admiration.

If you'd 'a' listened to me, you wouldn't 'a' gone and sold out your last dud to raise money.

I stood listening among the alders, in the deep cool shade.

"Fine business to be in, listening around corners," sneered Larkspur.