The two listeners accepted the old man's solution, but they did not share his enthusiasm.
Dinner also was in prospect, and, most of all, having heard so much of the tale, the four listeners desired to begin to "play Waverley.
Meanwhile, she paced impatiently about, and prayed that when she did get Joe there would be no listeners on the line to carry news to Whiskers-on-the-moon.
An astounding assertion this will seem to the thousands of listeners enthralled by her voice to-day.
The five thousandlisteners gave some applause to the director after the playing of the introduction, and they gave a little more to the chorus--those earnest workers who serve grand opera as the stokers do a ship.
The listeners were much moved, and frequently wiped their eyes.
A passing tumult arose; the listeners crowded around Panna, who had started up, and tried to force her back into her seat and to quiet her.
He let his red eyes rove about the company as if seeking those of his listeners who disagreed with him.
The speakers urged their listeners not to believe anybody except their own reason.
Under the pretense of a similar offense," said the captain, briefly explaining to the group of listeners the manner of his capture, the grounds of his personal apprehensions, and the method of his escape.
The last sounds of the combat died on the ears of the anxious listeners in the cottage, and were succeeded by the stillness of suspense.
Miss Peyton and Frances were breathless and unobserved listeners to all that passed between them, from the window of the chamber immediately above their heads.
And what I am about to tell you I should long since have forgotten had I not heard my father recite it to wondering listeners so many times during my childhood.
At this all three of my listeners broke into laughter.
The newscast stopped and a commercial called the attention of listenersto the virtues of an anti-allergy pill.
Of course it was probably posting watchers and listeners here and there to try to find Lockley and Jill.
At length the listeners heard a sullen roar more prolonged than the tempest, and the wind was upon them.
Listeners never hear any good of themselves," said Belle, loudly enough to arrest the attention of the two dames.
His voice might not have passed muster at Covent Garden, but in the unique stage setting, which included a group of eager listeners on abridge behind him, one could forgive a break on a high note or two.
His language was producing itself with as much delicacy of selection as if it came out of a book--and yet preserving the savour of quaint, outlandish idiom which his listeners clearly liked.
The listeners had caught no helpful clue from the tone of his words.
Illustration] The cry was caught up by all the listenersin a whirlwind of enthusiastic loyalty, and the stranger joined in it, thrilled with an equal love and honor for the Patriot Soldier, whose name upon Italian lips means liberty.
From this time a restful expression replaced the patient hopelessness her face had worn before, and in the lullabys she sang the listeners caught echoes of the cheerful voice they had never thought to hear again.
In his election meetings I noticed that the temper and sentiment of the listeners did not in the least affect him; what he said was what he himself cared to say, not what he felt they would wish to hear.
It is only by a rare combination of gifts that one who speaks with so much force and brilliance as to charm his listeners is also able to deliver thoughts so valuable in words so choice that posterity will read them as literature.
The cheerful smile Elfreda turned on her amused listeners as she ended her recital was hardly an indication of deep sorrow for her double loss.
Emma beamed languishingly upon her listeners in order better to impress them with her unfaltering loyalty to their interests.
The faces of her small listeners showed utter amazement; then with one of his flashlike movements Ned sprang to the back of her chair and passed his hand rapidly all over her gray curls.
These seemed extremely liberal and just to both sides, but Mrs. Trent did not greatly surprise her listeners when she quietly interposed a clause to the effect that: "My husband believed in profit-sharing.
It is a proverb that listenersseldom hear any good of themselves.
It is a true adage that "Listeners seldom hear any good of themselves.
I am certain that the bird or birds had no suspicion of listeners to the home talk and song, for after we were discovered, we heard nothing of the sort.
All the listeners stopped their ears and threw themselves upon him, gnashing their teeth.
His eager listeners ascribed to his incoherent syllables the thoughts which occurred to them at the time.
Syro-Chaldaic whenever the majority of their listeners understood it.
Several of the listeners looked at otherlisteners with unmistakable doubt.
But the Bells that to all living listeners peal, With joy their deeds reveal!
So we may grant that a large number of listeners increases reproductive constructivity, but only when the speaker is certain of his subject and of the favor of his auditors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "listeners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
