To speak truth I listened with a very ill grace, longing the while to be on deck, for we were about to sight the Isle of Man.
I told my story, leaving out the family history involved, and he listened with every mark of attention and interest.
He listened without much show of attention, shaking his head from side to side.
Poodles had listened with consternation to the confession of Pearl, and he now appeared to be dissatisfied with himself rather than with the court.
We remembered the dismay with which Pearl and Poodles had listened to the announcement of our intended removal from Cleaver Island, and were fully confirmed in our view of the traitors' purpose.
The eye of the deputy sheriff twinkled as helistened to these speeches.
So they continued; but Manuel listened to no more.
Yesterday evening I went to a concert at Charlottenburg where hardly any one listened to the music, as all present were preoccupied with the probable events of to-day.
Elizabethan audiences listened with rapture to long harangues in bombastic blank verse: a modern audience can not endure this.
Presidente always carried out her daughter's every wish and listened to her as if Mademoiselle was an oracle.
From half-past nine till ten she had listened to the passing carriages, telling herself that never before had her husband come in so late from dining with Florent and Chanor.
The little group of persons listened to the conversation with a very natural curiosity, which stamped the scene upon their memories.
It may readily be conceived that Schmucke listenedto this reckoning with amazement, for he knew about as much of business as a cat knows of music.
If you had listened to Crevel in the first instance, instead of scorning him and turning him out of the house, you might have had four hundred thousand francs, for my revenge has cost me all of that.
Atala listened to the lady as she might have listened to music; but Adeline, seeing that she was incapable of understanding her, thought she had better take another line of action and speak to the old man.
Schmucke listenedas if Pons proclaimed an apocalypse.
Montes was drunk; helistened as if the women were talking about somebody else.
If only I had listened to her, instead of flying into a rage, that day when I wanted poor Hortense to go home rather than compromise the reputation of that--Oh!
La Cibot was dismayed by the man's perspicacity; now she knew why he had listened to her so intently.
The two mountaineers listenedin silence, the one stroking his beard, the other holding his gun.
I listened to the muffled voices in the signal-corps room, which was just beyond the thin partition; the men on duty there with the trench telephones wore French masks that had neither nose-clamps nor mouthpieces.
We listened to the shells as they described their low arc above us, and knew instinctively whether they would land to the right or to the left, near us or relatively far away.
The windows were iron-shuttered, and we listened in comparative safety.
His answer gives more clearly than any argument I have ever listened to the statement of the difference between the spirit and programme of the Central Powers and the spirit and programme of the Allies.
I listened one evening to the address of a one-armed French colonel.
I listened to the steady pound of the engines, and waited, tense and anxious, for the crash of the torpedo I knew might come; and then I got a grip on myself.
Another lad who had listened to the conversation remained long enough to tell me that he lived in Macon, Ga.
French was the easiest to understand of any I ever listened to, and my little knowledge of the language enabled us to carry on an interesting conversation.
He had eyes only for a white face looking up to him from the pillow and his ear listened only for low moans that broke the darkness.
She listened with intent eyes, her fingers plaiting the edge of her apron in tiny folds.
The boy listened to it, for a moment, as it died away.
He listened as John laid the facts of the case before him.
To us they are very little more than three proper names; they were very different to these men who listened to the characteristically vehement discourse of the Apostle Peter.
Many people have listened to sermons all their lives, and still have no clear understanding of the way of salvation.
Many of you, dear brethren, have listened to my voice for long years, and have not done the one thing for which I preach--viz.
I listened spellbound, and was not the only one thus enchanted.
But the good mistress, who had listened in silence to these arguments, was unmoved.
A United States officer listened and was touched to tears.
He listened with polite attention and said it was a wonderfully interesting story, but altogether improbable.
And I read to him the story of the cross--of Jesus' dying love, and helistened and believed.
She listened and weighed every word of its contents.
She had been so much happier of late that laughing had grown easy, but she very soon saw the real meaning of the situation, and she grew pale as she silently listened to the end.
Otherwise I should not have listenedto you as I have.
Adele listened a moment, then went back into her room, bolting the door behind her, as well as turning the key in the lock.
Arden had allowed himself to sink into a chair at Laura's side, and he listened with half-closed eyes and folded hands while she spoke.
Their eyes met quietly as they looked at each other, but the whole party became silent, and listened to the remarks exchanged by the two men who had once fought such a memorable fight.
So he told her the story, while she listened and watched him.
Ghisleri listened quietly as though he understood it all.
He approached the subject coolly and diplomatically, while Gerano blandly listened and puffed at a cigarette.
He was far too manly, however, not to be pleased, and his expression changed as he listened to her.
I am obliged to you for havinglistened so patiently.
Adele had listened with the greatest attention throughout, and the direct good sense of his answer disarmed any suspicion she might have entertained in regard to the remark which had led to her asking his advice.
The latter received him in his study, and listened to his story with calm attention.
How long--how very long--it seemed to him since he had sat in the presence of refined and attractive women and listened to their gay and animated chat!
He liked the contrast between her and her sister; for Miss Travers had listened in silence to her sister's exposition of what her manner should be to the colonel and his wife, and when they met she was bright and winsome.
Buxton stared with all his eyes and listened with all his ears, starting guiltily when he heard a martial footstep coming quickly up the path, and faced the intruder rather unsteadily.
Then he turned and listened to the rattle of wheels growing faint in the distance as the team drove away towards the prairie town.
The colonel listened to the stories with such patience as could be accorded to witnesses who desired to give prominence to their personal exploits in subduing the flames and rescuing life and property.
The otherslistened anxiously: "Mr. Hayne, this is Ross.
If all ministers said: Bear the evils of this life; your Father in heaven counts your tears; the time will come when pain and death and grief will be forgotten words; I should have listened with the rest.
When has any God listened to the prayer of any man?
He listened with heightening color and tense nerves; the delirious languor of amatory music, and the delirium he had felt while under the spell of Marcia's beauty, passed away.
She sat down in the window, thoughtful and sad, and listenedto the crickets, whose ignorant jollity often sounds as mournfully to us mortals as ours may to superior beings.
I had listened to him that bright October day,--that I had been a happy wife, perchance a happy mother.
Sunday, and listened to his searching and discriminating sermons with broad, honest smiles of satisfaction.
And when weary of active amusement, they reclined on the grass andlistened to the melancholy rote of the sea,--the steady pulsations of its mighty heart.
I had observed the rapt attention with which William listened to music.
She listened intently, but the horses began to move about in the stable close by and she could no longer hear the footsteps.
Ah, child, if you and Katherine had only listenedto me, and not made those rebellious marriages!
I had listened too often to the soft rustle of her trailing gown to make any mistake now.
Startled suddenly by a strange sound, I listened with bated breath.
All men listened the song sublime - But no one listened the dull wheel's din.
The singer sang on with a rose in her hair, And all men listened her dulcet tone; And the spinner spun on with a dull despair Down in her heart as she sat alone.
Seward was as anxious as was Lyons to avoid irritating incidents, "but he is not as much listened to as he ought to be by his colleagues in the War and Navy Departments[1162].
As reported by them[140], Russell listened with attention to their representation, but made no informing comment.
Gregory's had no fire in it and was characterized by Henry Adams, an interested auditor, as "listened to as you would listen to a funeral eulogy.
Outdoor meetings listened to reports of what was going on in the Hall and cheered the speakers.
In this state of decrepitude she occupied the best position in the house, seemed to be treated with great kindness, and whatever was said by her, was listened to with much attention.
Pinzon listened to him with profound attention and without interrupting him, except to ask an occasional question for the purpose of obtaining further details or additional light upon some obscure point.
The anxiety with which they listened made the silence intense.
Keeping at my side, he renewed his thanks, which I listened to in a gloomy, conscience-stricken silence.
My consignees, who had received me with such heartiness on my arrival, now, in the character of my charterers, listened to my complaints with polite helplessness.
The girl had learned nothing, she had never listened to a general conversation, she knew nothing, she had heard of nothing.
I listened with horribly critical detachment to that service I had had to read myself, once or twice, over childlike men who had died at sea.
On concluding he noticed the sick girl crook her finger as a means of beckoning to her mother, who immediately approached and put her ear close to her daughter's mouth, and listened for awhile.
The men called and listened as she had done, and examined the edge of the chasm, and settled how it had happened, and then sat down to wait until the implements they wanted should come up.
Stephen sat upon the step of a door, leaned against a wall under an archway, strolled up and down, listened for the church clock, stopped and watched children playing in the street.
Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches.
Mr. Sleary, who with his mouth open and his rolling eye as immovably jammed in his head as his fixed one, had listened to these doctrines with profound attention, here stepped forward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "listened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
