We could hear Porter's guns, and knew that moments were precious.
From our camps at Chickasaw we could hear, the whistles of the trains arriving in Vicksburg, could see battalions of men marching up toward Haines's Bluff, and taking post at all points in our front.
He told me how uneasy he was; that he could hear nothing of his son, notwithstanding all the diligence and inquiry he could make.
Behind two screens, which ran across the room, I could hear whisperings, and the buzzing sound peculiar to women dressing themselves.
The organ ceased its triumphal song and I could hear my poor mother bursting into tears beside me.
If he were suited to the conditions he could smell an enemy; he could hear him; he could see him, just as the animals can detect their enemies.
I could hear how he panted from the exertion, and it occurred to me that I might offer to bear his bundle for him, but yet I made no effort to overtake him.
But for a while, what with the roar and swell of the wind and Navvy's snores, I could hear it only at long intervals.
I decided I ought to go round the ridge on the east side and see if I could hear better.
I could hear a squirrel coming over this ground," replied R.
He could hear a squirrel jump a long distance in the forest.
With the labored breathing of the horses filling our ears we could hear no other sound.
It was still tied up, but he could hear no voices out where the tar-sands were.
Up and down through the fog of smoke he could hear voices, and he knew it was this great, circular fire-clearing the people of Chateau Boulain were watching and guarding.
But there was not a ripple of movement that he could hear.
Here and there a broken buttress or a splintered wall told where our guns had played upon it, but inside I could hear an organ playing and a Miserere being chanted.
Tis enough for me to rule at--" I could hear no further, but I was now sure that he was some one of note who had retired from any share in state affairs.
As we fought I could hear a clock strike one in a house near.
Light was coming through in the corner flat, and he could hear a piano being played.
We just left him in his bed, and had the bell run down into the cellar, so that Cook and I could hear him if he rang.
The top floor was unlighted, the door closed, no one answered his ringing, he could hear no sound.
We could hear a horse coming along at a pretty good bat over the hard, rocky, gravelly road.
Then we could hear a man groaning, as if he couldn't bear the pain, and partly as if he was trying to smother it.
I could hear nothing at first; then I heard a slight noise a good way off, and a stick breaking every now and then.
The tide was coming in, as I judged from the sound it made, and I could hear it break at the end of the alley with a little rush towards me.
She fancied that the saints, the glorified martyrs in the painted windows illumined by the sunlight, could feel, could hear, were touched by human sympathy in their beatitude.
I could hear on all sides the tinkle of bells, the cracking of sticks, and the stamping of cattle that were taking refuge in the thicket from the flies.
Above the hubbub, inside now, we could hear a loud gong sounding insistently.
Far off, now, we could hear a whistle as a train finally approached slowly into our block, creeping up to see what was wrong.
We could hear them, breaking in where the guards had either been rendered unconscious or had fled.
The visitor is told that the male figures are Mahadeva, and the female Kali: we could hear of no other deities.
At last, pausing on the top of a hill, we could hear voices on the opposite side of the glen.
Before I had run a hundred feet I could hear pursuers, and a moment later a revolver cracked, ploughing up the dust in front of me.
There was a scurry of feet inside, and we could hear a grating noise and a terrific jar as the inner, steel door shut.
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