32 Verbs to Use for the Word listening

He had lain awake listening to the throb of the engine with an aching heart, and with every longing for the country he had left behind growing stronger, every recollection growing more vivid and intense.

He stopped a minute ter listen, en he heared sump'n grunt ag'in.

Under the guidance of Madame de Trezac she had found a prettily furnished apartment in a not too inaccessible quarter, and in its light bright drawing-room she sat one June afternoon listening, with all the forbearance of which she was capable, to the counsels of her newly-acquired guide.

Kazan isn't going to take to him worth a cent!" Kazan heard the girl's voice, and stood rigid and motionless listening to it.

"So, you defilsmake a listen to me," he called.

I listened till I grew cold listening, but it rapped and it rapped, and by and by it was morning, and it stopped.

He halted an instant, listening, but at first could hear no more than the throb of his heart in his breast and the whisper of his own troubled breathing.

It implies a listening to, and reasoning with, the condemners of some of our most time-honored and respectable practices!

" This was greeted with another scattered rattle of laughter, followed by a silence, which indicated intense listening.

Through his poems are scattered many fine passages; but not even his large influence on the better poets who followed is sufficient to justify our listening to him longer now.

I lay awake listening to the pendulum of my clock.

Yet think not, though I fall upon the sad, And lingering listen to the fainting tones, Before I strike new chords that seize the old And waft their essence up the music-stair Think not that he was always sad, nor dared To look the blank unknown full in the void:

It dies away; So gently dies she scarce can say 'T is gone; listens; 't is lost she fears; Listens, and thinks again she hears.

Much I questioned him; And every word he uttered, on my ears Fell flatter than a cagèd parrot's note, 100 That answers unexpectedly awry, And mocks the prompter's listening.

" Old Sam looked as though he'd like to eat 'im, especially as he noticed Mrs. Finch listening and pretending not to.

I won't deny that sometimes, on rare occasions, when I have been in company with gentlemen who preferred listening, I have been guilty of the same kind of usurpation which my friend openly justified.

Ichtharion: I refuse the listen to O, the sentries are gone.

There, in the half-light, I saw Mistress Ysolinde listening.

I said, "Bert, you can't do ittigers are" "Shut up," he said, "and listen" "Even if you did," I said"No, I won't shut upyou listen.

He does not know that when the Nightingale sings one listens, supposing it to be a minute, and lo!

And in the evening Mark came in, with a bottle of the '21 in his coat-tail pocket; and the three sat and chatted, while Mary brought out her work, and stitched listening silently, till it was time to lead the old man upstairs.

" Cuddy left alone, stopped his listening and began pulling at his halter.

Sometimes he wakened with a start and felt that the stars were the lighted lanterns of a million men searching for him; and sometimes he lay with his head strained high listening to the strange silence of the mountains and the night which has a pulse in it and something whispering, whispering forever in the distance.

En w'en he 'mence' ter tell 'bout de noo nigger, Mars Jeems prick' up 'is yeahs en listen', en eve'y now en den

Maybe, as Mrs. Costrell ull listen to 'im.' Mary Anne ran to Bessie in despair.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  listening