Yet, of a sudden, there came into hearing the sharp, staccato report of an engine exhaust.
I'm sick of hearing about Linda's riches," Bess rejoined.
What Linda Riggs had said about Nan and Bess in her hearing made no impression on Laura.
Lynde did not start athearing this unexpected name, though it pierced his ear like a sharp-pointed arrow.
And so it is well done, that he is made to see the "monstrous apparition" just after his heart has been pierced through with many sorrows at hearing of Portia's shocking death.
I thought, on first hearing the story, that probably the sting was by some other insect, but Mr. Winston says that he saw the Cicada.
It is thought by some that the senses of hearing and smell are lodged in the antennæ, these organs thus combining the sense of feeling with those of hearing and smelling.
He listened in the hopes of hearingsome voice; but, if there was any, it was drowned in the noise of the waters.
Cheering accounts soon began to come, and at length Dan was pronounced able to travel, but seemed in no haste to go home, though never tired of hearing his nurses talk of it.
Daisy rejoiced over them, and was never tired of hearing her brother's plans for the future.
Mrs Jo was so startled at hearing such words from his lips that she exclaimed joyfully: 'Then you did read the little book I gave you, and kept your promise?
For I remember, squatting there in that shell crater, hearing a cricket tranquilly tuning up between the thunderclaps which shook earth and sods down on us and wrinkled the pool of water at our feet.
So Djack came after me--hearing rumours of Prussians in that direction.
On hearing that these strangers are messengers from Orestes, he instantly calls for refreshments to be brought, and begs the stranger to delay no longer to enter the cottage: poverty must be no excuse for not offering what hospitality he has.
Antistrophe IV What mortal man then doth not bow in awe And fear before all this, Hearing from me the destined ordinance Assigned me by the Gods?
The most noteworthy occurrences in it were, his again hearing the Quaker preacher, Thomas Loe, and his vigorous opposition to the Ritualistic innovations of the Stuarts.
He asked them to gain him a full and public hearingbefore the King and Council.
They could only gain a hearing by so far yielding to the popular taste.
Then he appealed to the king, and "succeeded in obtaining from him a full hearing upon the whole matter, in the presence of the Marquis of Powis and the Earls of Murray and Melfort, who were requested to become referees.
I wrote you some months ago by Robert Barclay who passed this way, and hearing I was your sister, desired to speak with me.
Finally, finding his son still unyielding, and hearing complaints of his preaching at different meetings in town and country, he turned him out of doors, telling him also that he should leave his estates to those that pleased him better.
After hearing so much about foreign colonists, Tartar invaders, and Finnish aborigines, the reader may naturally desire to know the numerical strength of this foreign element.
I confess I was a little shocked on hearingthe priest thus speak of his sacred functions as if they were an ordinary marketable commodity, and talk of the inhibition as a pushing undertaker might talk of sanitary improvements.
On hearing these words Karl Karl'itch turned to me, and every feature of his honest German face expressed the most undisguised astonishment.
Hearing that a small proprietor, who had an only daughter, had come to live in the town for a few weeks, he took a room in the inn where the newcomers lived, and when he had made their acquaintance he fell dangerously ill.
He seemed to have the faculty of hearing when asleep, and generally appeared in my room before he had succeeded in getting his eyes completely open.
Some had gained a hearing by the influence of their teachers.
The great theatres have regular days for hearing aspirants, but this was a small theatre.
Perhaps that was the right attitude, for after hearing one song with piano accompaniment, the Intendant offered me a five-year contract.
In the stilly night one had sometimes to bury one's head in the bed-clothes to avoid hearing the conversations of the husband and wife in the next house.
The thin veneer of his sympathy for us was as glass over his solid and shining satisfaction at hearing how his waste land was getting cleared--at no expense to him.
She went to her cousin's house at Burey, and there she stayed for six weeks, hearing bad news of the siege of Orleans by the English.
Suddenly I was struck with the greatest terror and dismay, hearing behind me the fearful cries and bowlings of the savages, far worse than the roaring of lions or the shrieking of hyenas; and I knew that they had missed me.
So, hearing news of a revolt in the west, William Gordon rode away, with many good riders at his back, to take his place in the ranks of the rebels.
The old woman, hearing him, called him in, and reproved him; but she could not prevail upon him to go to hunt.
Hearing the horse's feet, he leaped up, and Dalyell called upon him to surrender.
I do not wish," he said, "that my wife should be exposed to the risk of hearing all the horrors that Marie-Antoinette heard there for the space of three years.
I am going to write all her story down, it is so interesting, and it will be my first lesson in the Scotch language; I would not have missed hearing her tell it for the world.
He had also written an astronomical treatise; but hearing of the fate of Galileo, he refrained from publishing, and always used some chicane in speaking of the world's movement.
Andrea Naclerio tried in all ways to obtain a hearing and to appease the tumult.
Hearing them coming, he stood up dauntlessly, threw wide his arms to their blows, and died as silent and mysterious as he had lived.
Mr. Corréard was fallen into a kind of trance, but hearing every moment cries of "To arms!
And one saw also in a moment that he had chanced upon this subject, in reading or hearing his Bible, as he might have chanced on a dramatic scene accidentally in the street.
I thought that what made her look so pale and wild was the anxiety of not hearing from Claude; but since his first dear letter ten days ago telling us that he is safe, she seems even worse than before.
They suddenly came back to her now; they suddenly reached her hearing and comprehension.
First, known dislike to and hatred for Kali and such like, leading to language in my hearing calculated to break the peace.
Nihali hath beenhearing my holiday task half the morning.
And if Agamemnon Menelaus had not grasped the determination which underlay the girl's threats of taking life it was from no lack of hearing them, ay, and of shivering at them.
Jolly Roger listened, hearing only the convulsive sweep of that mighty force over a thousand miles of barren.
After that he re-entered the cabin and went into Nada's room, closing the door behind him; and for many minutes thereafter Peter remained outside guarding the outer door, and hearing no sound or movement from within.
The night being dark and stormy, with rain occasionally, caused the river to make more noise in its passage over the rocky bed than usual, and completely prevented our advanced sentinels hearing the approach of the enemy.
Marmont, having failed in his attempt to collect sufficient forces to raise the siege, on hearing of the fall of the place, retired on Salamanca.
This was news, indeed, and I pricked up my ears on hearing it.
This was delightful hearing after all we had been through lately; at any rate I greeted the prospect of Leglosse's co-operation with acclamation.
On hearing our steps, however, he turned his sightless face towards us.
