If you will listento me patiently," he said, "I will try to explain.
At such times she would listen with patient indifference while they sought to interest her with current local gossip, and as soon as possible would turn the conversation back to the old happy days before her sickness.
But the Temple of God is the whole universe, and wherever thou wilt address thyself to him in prayer, he will listen to thee most graciously.
They have, besides, temples and synagogues to pray in, as well as preachers and precentors to listen to, and their feasts and fasts afford them recreation for body and mind.
Many of them said, He has a devil and is mad; why listen to Him?
All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
Therefore, having heard you floundering through the thicket, we drew near to listen to such conversation as you might indulge in.
It is not too far away, and yet at such a distance that we shall not be forced to listen to the gabbling of those geese," he said as he set about building a small campfire in order to prepare the food he had procured.
If he is furiously angry with some of his subordinates, his superior tone is a pleasure to listen to, which is some slight consolation.
I will now make known to you the plan I had designed for accomplishing it, and listen to your advice.
She had once innocently and eagerly sought his society--she had loved to listen to him while he was talking to Lady Vaughan--she had enjoyed being with him as the flowers enjoy the sunlight.
To go out into those sunlit gardens and to listen to music with him--well, she had not even guessed before what a beautiful, happy world it was.
Now that you have flattered me, listen while I tell you what you are.
Then just listen to your own heart, and you will soon know whether you love me or not.
Some doleful romance--I did not listen attentively.
She said what she thought, and she expressed her thoughts in such beautiful, eloquent words that he delighted to listen to them.
All the gentlemen began to listen and gather about them.
This is probably the last time I shall have the chance to talk openly with you, and I implore you to listen to me.
Even in the middle of the contest for the Treasury, he had found time to listen to Mr. Wilson Keens report on the affairs of the late Samuel Baker.
One of these days you will thank me with your whole soul for refusing to listen to you now.
As for his appeal to her ambition, it fell quite dead upon her ear, but a woman must be more than a heroine who can listen to flattery so evidently sincere, from a man who is pre-eminent among men, without being affected by it.
O, listen to it--listen to it, dear, generous lady!
John Christie would not listen to his vindication any longer.
Haud up your head--haud up your head, and listento your ain kind native Prince.
But Louis was in no mood tolisten to such suggestions.
It was a curious conversation to listen to, in those days of the splendors of the empire, when those children were the heirs of so many crowns, which the Emperor was distributing to his brothers, his officers, his allies.
He felt that he could not consult the impulses of his heart, but that he must listen to the colder dictates of prudence.
He was therefore the more ready to listen to Josephine's suggestion of the marriage of Louis and Hortense.
And again: "They'll listento you--if you speak well.
Put down those weapons and listen to me," so the church should speak in irresistible tones, in a voice of silver trumpets.
Suddenly out of the nothingness and darkness about him came the conviction that God did not listen to his prayers.
And he leant back and prepared to listen in such a thorough way that Eleanor would have no chance of discussing the Chasters' heresies.
Before his second address the bishop had to listen to Veni Creator Spiritus, in its English form, and it seemed to him the worst of all possible hymns.
I would not listen to him; and so he would be silent about them until convinced that the furtherance of our careers as airmen demanded additional unpleasant imaginings.
Nevertheless, I should have had to listen to him indefinitely, had it not been for an event which cut short all conversation and ended our first day at the École d'Aviation in a truly spectacular manner.
I was sitting at a rickety table writing by candle-light, stopping now and then to listen to the mutter of guns on the Aisne front.
We listen through to the end, and Lieutenant Talbott, in his official capacity, begins to applaud.
If you will notlisten to me through love, you shall do so from fear.
You shall listento me," he cried, half in anger, half pleadingly.
Now listen to me, Patsy," said Billy, impressively.
Perhaps if you listen to the Word, it may come back after many days.
Rita was not in the humor to listen to Sukey's good-natured prattle, so her visit was brief, and she soon rode home, her heart full of trouble and rebellion.
She would listen to Dic because he was the stronger and could compel her to remain in the room; but when he should finish, she would go and would never speak to Miss Tousy again.
It was a fine singing voice, and a pleasant voice tolisten to in conversation, not the less pleasant for having a slight trace of Liverpool accent clinging to it.
To listen to him was to feel convinced of his own conviction and of the reality of the warmth with which he expressed it.
Now listen to me, Bruno, and I'll teach you quite a splendid kind of revenge!
I think that had better come at the end of the Banquet: then people can listen to it quietly.
I represented, modestly, that to my ears it appeared that they were shouting for different things, but the Chancellor would not listen to my suggestion for a moment.
Here you can still listen to those quaint ballads which were sung centuries ago in Normandie and Provence.
And now, since this State has been called in question, I shall not content myself with merely giving my own opinions and arguments, but I ask you to listen to her honored Governor.
If we listen again to heathen teaching, we shall confess its truth.
I confess I went with a good deal of awe, prepared to sit in silence and listen to the tale of the returning hero.
I expect to dictate all the rest of my life, if you good people are willing to come and listen to it.
They were always ready to listen to him--they would even stop fishing to do that--and to follow his plans.
All that Mark Twain had to do was to listen and make notes.
Then would Gibbie listen indeed, awed by very gladness.
He knew also that the magistrate to whom Robert had betaken himself, was not over friendly with his master, and certainly would not listen to any intercession from him.
He would not go into the byre, for that might disturb her, for she would have to look up to know that it was only Gibbie; he would listenat the door.
When at length he reached his bed, it was not for a long time to sleep, but to lie awake and listen to the raging of the wind all about and above and below the cottage, and the rushing of the streams down past it on every side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "listen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: attend; bug; eavesdrop; hark; hear; hearken; heed; intercept; listen; tap
