He pressed her against him, smiled as he knew how to smile, murmured in her ear sweet words, such as he knew how to utter, then flung himself on his knees and kissed the ground in front of her, just as he had kissed it in front of herself!
He only saw her ear and her neck with its young flesh sinking into the collar of her dress under the light material she wore till it was lost in the curves of her bust.
He whispered in her ear gallant absurdities, laughable fooleries, agreeable and well-turned compliments.
He was whispering in her ear in that tender fashion which denotes a courtship begun; and she was smiling behind her fan, blushing, and apparently delighted.
Another man had murmured that word a little while ago, and it was still vibrating in her ear and in her heart.
Dan's ear for good old Brother Bart was more used to obedience than command, and he was sick and shaken and doing his guardian duty under sore stress and strain to-night.
But Fleda's keen ear discerned not only the deep affection but something of regret in the voice, which troubled her.
Fleda's ear was too near the crack of the door not to have the benefit of more of their conversation than she cared for.
Both ear and eye were fastened by a young countryman with a particularly fresh face whom she saw approaching the house.
Why his oxen didn't go distracted was a question; but the very vehemence and iteration of his cries at last drowned itself in Fleda's ear and she could hear it like the wind's roaring, without thinking of it.
And whispered words of comfort and love Fall sweet on the ear of sorrow;-- 'Why weepest thou?
That breeze to my ear was soft and mild, Just so, when I was a little child; But now I hear in its freshening breath The voices of those that sleep in death.
Mr. Rossitur drew a long breath, speaking to Fleda's ear very great relief, and was silent.
Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain If with too credent ear you list his songs, Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open To his unmaster'd importunity.
Look you now what follows: Here is your husband, like a milldew'd ear Blasting his wholesome brother.
I have words to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
The measured cadence fell on my ear as I left the ward and passed beyond the annexe.
Our practised ear told us that somewhere near us a machine-gun was concealed, but these furtive sounds were so homeless, so impersonal, that they eluded us like an echo.
And did ye never think there was an ear that heard, and an ee that saw, a' thae things?
Tibby, to her astonishment, heard some of his deeds spoken of with great familiarity, which she was sure never had been whispered to the ear of flesh.
He listened intently, but his earcould catch nothing whatever.
Nurse Shaw had developed one of the sudden abscesses in the ear which troubled her from time to time.
The cadences of it fell on the ear softly and yet ruthlessly, and when she had finished speaking you became aware of silence, as after a solemn utterance of destiny.
Once her left ear had kept her in bed for six weeks, and she had arisen with the drum pierced.
Slowly the blood came back into the saner channels, and the whispering demon at his ear grew less articulate.
For the time it took Raymer to disappear she sat perfectly still, in the attitude of one who stifles all the other senses that the listening ear may hear and strike the note of warning or of relief.
Having a sensitiveear for the imaginative harmonies, the unresolved discord annoyed him.
I see: you were a little beforehand with the doctor," he said, and he strove to say it naturally; to keep the malignant devil that was whispering in his ear from dictating the tone as well as the words.
By no means could Edward Raymer know that he had set the whispering devil at work again at the ear of the man who was rocking gently in the desk-chair.
Coming even with the grouping around the office door, Broffin sat down on a discarded cylinder casting, chewed his dry smoke, whittled a stick, and kept an open ear for the sidewalk talk.
There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into extasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
No one heard her but Lucien and myself--and I was one listener more than she would have desired; for Lucien's ear alone was the ejaculation intended, the good for nothing little flirt.
Her ear was listening to catch the notes of angel harps before the throne of God, and her passing spirit was attuned to their melodies.
Her eyes were closed in death, and her ear heard not the wild music that was stealing through her otherwise silent chamber.
By this time he should know that heaven has no earto hear, and no hand to help.
Up in the right hand corner are some of the saved, with grins on their faces stretching from ear to ear.
A fine drizzling rain was falling, and every head was bent, and every ear turned to catch the impassioned words of eloquence and hope that fell from the lips of the famed orator.
Much of it was in the waste basket of credulity, in the open mouth of tradition, and in the dull ear of memory.
He walked quickly, as active men do when they are alone, and there is no one to hinder them, stopping now and then to see which way a hare sprang, or pausing to listen when his quick ear caught the distant tread of a buck.
His own words had a sententious sound in his ear and he felt that they were utterly inadequate, but he was fighting against heavy odds and did not know what to say.
Rex's quick ear caught the words, though they were scarcely audible.
You trample upon the offering of sighs and tears which he lays at your feet; you will not listen when he would pour into your ear his aspirations towards a sweeter and richer life than he has ever known.
Upon the smooth, dead surface of the right cheek sprawled a great red R, branded into the flesh, and through each large protruding ear went a ragged hole.
It burnished the high forehead and scalp lock of the Indian, and made to gleam intensely the gold earring in the ear of the mulatto.
