It appeared to float through the trees, and there was a rustle of stirring leaves, and then silence.

I thought every rustle in the bushes was a bear or a panther.

I splashed in the brook, finding its waters strangely warm, rustled through the grasses, my head back, chin out, hands extended as one makes his way through a house at night.

And two silk skirts rustling like the deadest leaves imaginable.

I remember (and who that was reared in the country does not) when I was a boy, how I went out in the sunny days of autumn, after the frosts had painted the hillsides, to gather chestnuts; and when the breeze rustled among the branches, how the nuts came rattling down; and how if the winds were still, I climbed into the trees and shook their tops, and how the chestnuts pattered to the ground like a shower of hail.

"So, that iss well,"papers rustled for a few moments.

But now the distant twigs and branches rustled with the coming of men, and suddenly a score or two of good stout yeomen, all clad in Lincoln green, burst from out the covert, with merry Will Stutely at their head.

Also Colonel Musgrave had presently good reason to lament a contretemps, over which he was sulking when Mrs. Pendomer rustled to her seat at the breakfast-table, with a shortness of breath that was partly due to the stairs, and in part attributable to her youthful dress, which fitted a trifle too perfectly.

"Well, Mr. Davis is here himself by this time, and you shall talk it out with him," Mrs. Rodney retorted, as a rustle at the door announced new-comers.

"Mr. Cumberland, if you are not sure of having seen this ring then, when did you see it and where?" A rustle from end to end of that crowded court-room.

The little spruce trees at the edge of the glade whipped and rustled as a heavy body crashed through.

Some labourer, thought he, may perchance be near; And so he sent a feeble shoutin vain; No voice made answer, he could only hear Winds rustling over plots of unripe grain, 35 Or whistling thro' thin grass along the unfurrowed plain.

" "Now, my dear," said Mrs. Hardcastle, rustling into Phebe's room, "I thought I would come up and have a look at you myself to make sure how you were.

23 As there he bides, it so befell, The wind came rustling down a dell, A shaking seized the wall: Up spring the tapers as before, The Faeries bragly foot the floor, And music fills the hall.

"Do you hear me, Sofia?" A voice like a sigh rustled on the parted lips, whose stir was imperceptible: "I hear you...." "Then heed what I say.

I'll just disturb you rustling about here.

In your house or in the open, the scent of the mildewed grain always in your nostrils, and in your ears no music but the wind's rustle amongst the fat sheaves!

When I go to the river the day after the principal fall of leaves, the sixteenth, I find my boat all covered, bottom and seats, with the leaves of the Golden Willow under which it is moored, and I set sail with a cargo of them rustling under my feet.

Once or twice I heard a rustle by the tent door.

The dry twigs cracked, and the dead leaves rustled beneath their feet.

He thought of this, but rustling against the palm of his right hand was the bill whose denomination he had read, and that figure ate into his memory, ate into his brain.

" She swept out of the door, her skirts rustling behind her.

But we must return to Wayeeses, sitting over her den on a great gray rock, trying every breeze, searching every movement, harking to every chirp and rustle before bringing her cubs out into the world.

even as the prayer was ended came a faint stir and rustle amid the leaves hard by, and, lifting startled head, Black Roger beheld a radiant vision standing in the pale glory of the moon, whereat he knew fear and a great awe.

Let's rustle after that car.