Whilst I spoke, the Cardinal pricked up his ears, turned his eyes upon me, sucked in all my words, and changed colour like a man whohears his doom pronounced.
At last they are obliged to say good-bye through the door, and Lauzun, who hears every word they utter, and who sees them through the keyhole, laughs in his sleeve at their mishap with infinite enjoyment.
Much astonished not to find the key in the door of the King's cabinet, Bontems gently taps at the door several times, but in vain; finally so loudly does he tap that the King hears the sound.
Bella kept on saying; "and won't he be surprised when he hears about Rocket!
The idea filled her mind until, as she reached home, the thought suddenly rushed into her head, "I wonder what father will say, when he hears what Aunt Maggie wants to talk to him about!
OF FLOSI THORD'S SON Flosi hears of Hauskuld's slaying, and that brings him much grief and wrath, but still he kept his feelings well in hand.
Njal hears of this, and said, "Such things are ill done, to refuse to let Gunnar buy; and it is not a good outlook for others if such men as he cannot get what they want.
As soon as Kate hears his voice, she yelps at him, “I paid my rent, first of the month like always.
No one ever hears of anything of the kind, and probably no one ever will.
There are hundreds of this latter class that the world never hears about.
The eye that sees but hears not, must neither envy nor blame the ear that hears but sees not.
Therewithin, through seeing every good, the holy soul rejoices which makes the deceit of the world manifest to whoso hears him well.
The day is breaking, and Parzival hears the minster bells.
In the battle Thorolf loses his life; but Egil hears the shout when Thorolf falls.
It hears of nothing more willingly, reads nothing more carefully, recalls nothing more frequently, and meditates upon nothing more sweetly.
Courteously he addresses Parzival, who hears nothing, and sits moveless.
Again, Bernard rejoices with great joy when he hears that the anti-pope who divided Christendom was dead.
At this point his biographer proceeds: "Whoever hears that the holy man so often changed his habitation, must not ascribe this to the vice of levity.
He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me.
But he that hears and does not do the things I say is like a man that is without a foundation for he built a house upon the earth against which the stream beat vehemently.
Whoever comes to me, hears my sayings, and does them, I will tell you who he is like: He is like a man who built a house on a deep foundation of rock.
Listen to the big owl courting; it sees the coon out hunting, it hears the mink softly slipping, slipping, where the dews of night are dripping.
If she is above and hears me perhaps it will recompense some of her shortened years if she knows I am pleading with you, as men having the greatest influence of any living, to tell and to teach the young that a clean life is possible to them.
So now you're going to stay quiet and wait for Vievie to fling herself into your arms when she hears about your rival.
I believe he hearshalf a note higher with one ear than with the other.
One sees such heads occasionally, but one very rarely hears what becomes of them.
Now, I tell you what: we will all sit here and of course the first man who thinks he hears a sound will advise the others, when we will all go together and try and find out what it was, but in silence, mind.
I like churches that make one think of God, with vaulted roofs leading to contemplation, where one neither sees nor hears people.
God hears us when we pray, but yet defers His gifts, to exercise petitioners; And though a while He makes requesters stay, With princely hand He'll recompense delay.
This eagerness is quite explicable, for this chapel is the one in which the Abbe Gelon hears confessions, and I need not tell you that when the Abbe Gelon confesses it is the same as if he were preaching--there is a crowd.
The cloud begins to disperse, he sees you, he hears you, he knows that papa is there, your child is restored to you.
When a lady walks through a college quadrangle and hears no sibilation, let her know sadly that first youth is past.
It is this which gives him the "grim" aspect which every reader of the papers hears about.
It is with a sense of shame that the wincing author hears his lines repeated night after night--lines that seem to him to have grown so stale and disreputably stupid, and which the ingenuity of the players contrives to instill with life.
We will let Miss Clendenning decide when she hears it--" and he turned Unger's head in the direction of the advancing lady.
He'll never forgive himself now when he hears what you have done for me," and he laid his hand affectionately on Oliver's shoulder as he spoke.
One hears a good deal in lay papers and so forth about experiments conducted with closed doors.
If he hears claims of superlative gains by the experiments there carried on, how is he to weigh and decide their value?
Here garrulous old age winds up his tale; And jovial youth, of lightsome vacant heart, 530 Whose every day was made of melody, Hears not the voice of mirth.
There can; to him in vain she lifts her eyes, His soul relentless hears her piercing sighs!
He wakes, but hears no music from the grove; No varied landscape courts his eye to rove.
Thither with one consent they bend, Their sorrows with their lives to end; While each, in thought, already hears The water hissing in his ears.
Presently she hears him singing an old love song which echoes strangely amid all this spiritual tension.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
