The living word falling upon the ear of the listener is one thing; quite another the word staring from the cold, printed page.
It almost made the listener cool to hear of these things: but, as Oddo had remarked, the heat had abated.
They did not seem to be talking; for Oddo, who was the best listener in the world, could not discover that a sound issued from their boat.
As he finished his story, Hund, who was perhaps the most eager listener of all, leaped thrice upon the floor, snapping his fingers, as if in a passion of delight.
There was enough in the speaker's voice to make his listener turn on him like a panther, and Father Fragrance stepped back with a hasty apology.
This was, of course, utter nonsense; but Hawkshawe fully believed it, and said the words so positively that hislistener bowed to his superior knowledge and also believed.
It also has a song of considerable merit, low and varied in tone, with a peculiar ventriloquism in many of the notes which produce a confusing idea on the listener that the bird approaches and recedes alternately whilst uttering them.
But all efforts to locate the accidental or intentional listener failed.
When I had written anything for the magazines during the day, I made a practice of taking it with me, and reading over the manuscript to my friend, and a most attentive and amused listener he used to be.
Our parson on board the old Rumbler had no more attentive listener to the Sabbath morning service than wardroom Polly; but there were times when Polly made responses when silence would have been more judicious.
The tone was lower than before, and so stern that it caused the listener to start.
How long he had been a listener he alone could tell; but there stood Mr. Jerry Belknap, private detective, one hand resting on the handle of the closed door, the other holding an open note book.
Music may be divided into four classes, each class marking an advance in receptive power on the part of the listener and poetic subtlety on that of the composer.
The listenerwas touched, and could only nod grave approval.
The listener reddened with delight; her step became elastic; she carried her head gallantly, and feared not the glances Redgrave cast at her.
That it was the voice of a woman the listener had no doubt.
The reader/listener will translate the poem to an image model in his mind.
The wonder of this quiet, ancient civilization, a sense of its depth, its wisdom, grew upon his listener as the enthusiastic poet described its charm and influence upon himself.
The listener outside misheard this speech thus: 'You will be glad of a companion whilst I am away.
So thelistener did not hear how the incensed monarch continued with the demand that the woman he loved should neither tell him falsehoods nor deceive him.
It seemed to transport the listener to the summit of the cathedral, as the choir now called to the ruler that the earth was full of his renown.
The pathos of the chant almost made his listener shrink, so immediate and searching was it.
She spoke for him altogether, not for herself; and herlistener saw that the bond which held the girl to the man might be proclaimed in the streets, with no dishonour.
It had been hitherto his habit in that family circle round the bar-parlor fire to play the part of listener rather than of talker.
Each of these had its story; and nothing pleased the old man better than to have a listener to his long-winded tales of how and where and when the thing was slain.
When the young man mentioned the artifice he supposed the Indian to have practised on his own nation, the countenance of the listener was veiled in an expression of cautious gravity.
Duncan complied; and the Mohican, who had been an attentive listener to the discourse, readily undertook the office.
The young lady uttered a cry of extreme surprise, and for a few moments they were so still that the listener could distinctly hear them breathe.
There was something so uncommon in her manner that the flesh of the concealed listener crept as he heard the girl utter these words, and the blood chilled within him.
Strokes thick and heavy rattled upon the door and lower window-shutters as he ceased to speak, and a loud huzzah burst from the crowd;—giving the listener for the first time some adequate idea of its immense extent.
Many times he had to repeat it, and finally, when he improvised two or three variations on the air, his delighted listener made him promise that whenever he passed the house he would come in and play that tune for him.
He rejoices in this bewitching of the strings with a kind of physical delight, and he uses that witchery so well, with such richness and lavishness, that the susceptible listener does not long resist.
The last words were delivered with an incisive emphasis so delicate as to be observable only in one who seldom spoke with emphasis, and it touched the listener deeply.
The composer himself declined to supply one, maintaining that the listener himself should seek to "crack the hard nut Till, the folk rogue of ancient tradition" had supplied his public.
This annunciation was heard fore and aft; for, during the time of his lordship hailing, every whisper was hushed, and scarcely even a limb moved, lest the listenershould lose the replies.
Could I have borne to live a wretched turnkey, a miserable listener at key-holes, a dealer out of "punishment, the drudgery of devils?
Here mylistener heaved an involuntary sigh, and, perceiving what he had done, reddened with confusion.
In his surprise he forgot that the speaker was herself partly English, that her mother, a silent listener to their talk, was a compatriot of his own.
I think responsibility unsexes a woman," she added; and her bewildered listener felt that the final nail had been driven into the coffin containing the discredited remains of the girl-worker's claim to respectability.
Originally he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for and against various performers like one of the mob; and sometimes, if he were irritated at his opponents, he would not visit the spectacle.
As it was, the man made no answer or defence, but pretended to be astonished and overcome by the cleverness of Gaius, and repeating the accusation point by point he praised it as though he were some listener and not on trial.
Demos became a most attentive listener and he liked the tack the carpenter was on.
Beggar Woman, who had remained a silentlistener to the midshipman's story.
