In attaching his eavesdropper he had clumsily raised his head above the level of the window-ledge, but he had hoped that this gross error of strategy had passed unnoticed.
A man was there listening to us, and it would have made no difference which way I had come round the tent, for the eavesdropper would have gone in the opposite direction.
He had played eavesdropper to her counsel, and it had endeared her to him magically.
Forbes continued his search for a clue to last night's eavesdropper in the manner of his fellow-passengers.
Now this pretty child regarded him as a double eavesdropper and spy.
The first step was fatal, she thought, and she was apparently condemned to be a peeper and an eavesdropper for the rest of her days.
The alarm being given, we locked our cabin doors, repaired to the smoking-room, and ordered drinks at a center table where no eavesdropper could overhear.
Then boys began bringing the German's breakfast, and unless I chose to confess myself an eavesdropperit became my business to be in the tent ahead of them.
The eavesdropper half rose to attend to the instrument.
Then you're an eavesdropper as well as a trespasser!
But I will say that I was surprised, not to say pained, to find that you played the eavesdropper the very hour you came to Annandale.
There seemed to be four of us in the dugout; the two brancardiers, and this second self of mine, as curious as an eavesdropper at a keyhole, listening intently to everything, and then turning to whisper to me.
His inspection of the boxes was fruitless, and he found nothing of significance in the little niche where, on his previous visit to the Thelma, he had strongly suspected that an eavesdropper was hiding.
At that the eavesdropper could smile, a faint little smile of shy pride and self-reliance.
Then her name upon her mother's lips brought the eavesdropper to swift attention.
Lord Vincent sprang up, and in an instant had the eavesdropper by the throat.
At the risk of irritating the others, Don repeated the questions and answers aloud for the benefit of his eavesdropper in the Pentagon.
He decided that was it; the mechanical eavesdropper he wore under his collar was making him too self-conscious.
She opened the door, and saw not the eavesdropper and spy, who had but just time to conceal himself, and stand maliciously grinning at the retreating figure of the faithful servant.
Could you have seen the eavesdropper rubbing his hands together, grinning, and listening in breathless suspense!
Late as it was, he picked up the detective receiver of the mechanical eavesdropper and held it to his ears, listening intently several moments.
Then we discovered someone was listening to the confession and pursued the eavesdropper into the bush.
I suppose if I could have crept away unobserved, I would have gone from her presence hardened and embittered; but I must play out the hateful part of eavesdropper to the end.
No eavesdropper could ever have caught the least word or gesture to justify it.
Could a malicious eavesdropper have assisted at the secret operations of her inmost mind, even then he could scarcely have seen aught to justify it.
