In which Frale returns andlistens to the Complaints of Decatur Irwin's Wife 152 XVII.
If he listens peaceably to the lecture, I shall fine him only a hundred thousand coconuts, five tons of ivory nut, one hundred fathoms of shell money, and twenty fat pigs.
If he is shrewd enough not to fight you, and merely sits and listens to your English law, it will be no more than a huge joke to him.
Then he shall be my guest, here in Tulagi, until he changes his mind and heart, and does pay, and listens to an entire course of lectures.
She listensto his remarks, but they fail to strike her; she answers his questions, but they seem to bore her.
There is no one to whom the immortal Nelson listens as he listens to Signor Hardres; and it is the desire of my heart that the hero should pass one night underneath this fast-decaying roof.
As Eleanor listens to Mrs. Kachin, she feels involuntarily drawn towards her by force of contrast.
Eleanor is pale to the lips, she trembles all over as she listens to Elizabeth.
She listens to what he says with tears in her eyes and a blessing in her heart.
She listens like one in the thralls of a hideous nightmare.
She listens eagerly for him to come, longing for the interview to commence and end, while a spirit of heroism is upon her, laying her lower nature in the dust.
Then she recounts her scene with Paulina, word for word, while Quinton listens breathlessly.
She listens to his philippic, with her head meekly bent.
She ends with a laugh, which he listens to in a silence that is almost stunned.
Warmed by the wine--of which both have partaken pretty freely--the Chilian continues to pour his experiences into the ears of his passenger; while the latter listens with unflagging interest.
And to every one he listens with interest so engrossing, that his breath is well nigh suspended.
As they rush on, cleaving the thick fog, Harry at their head listens intently.
I think it listens always," said Vandyke, his eye on fire.
There is something so intimate, so personal in these manifestations of himself, that in regarding them I have something of the feeling of one who listens unseen to a man thinking aloud.
Thou hearest the nightingale begin the Song of Spring: The lark sitting upon his earthy bed: just as the morn Appears; listens silent: then springing from the waving cornfield, loud He leads the choir of Day!
She calculates on the drunkenness of the grooms, compares the different effects of wine on herself and on them, and listens to their snoring.
And it should be noted that, all through the passage down to this point, and indeed in the fifteen lines which precede our quotation, Macduff listens only to Ross.
It is perhaps needless to say that whoever listens candidly to Susan B.
Every woman who listens to the siren tongues of political wire-pullers and office-seekers not to demand a plank, will thereby help to sell Kansas back into the hands of the whiskey power.
He listens for the joyful sound Of a footstep passing nigh; And lays his ear to the ground, to catch The answer to his cry.
With calm brow, steady brow, He listens to his doom.
Kate Shelly recoils at the terrible crash; The sounds of destruction she happens to hear; She springs to the window--she throws up the sash, And listens and looks with a feeling of fear.
By and by he reaches the church, from whose coloured windows the glow proceeds, and from his station amongst the tombs listens to the singing.
Whilst he listens there comes from the moor the shrill cry of his pursuers.
As shelistens she seems to hear her mother's voice reproaching her.
At first she listens vaguely; then, as the sounds grow nearer, she springs to her feet.
Again the Queen turns her head, and listens anxiously.
The King who occupies his usual place in her saloon, sitting in an arm-chair placed between the door leading into the antechamber and the chimney-piece, listens with speechless dismay.
He who slanders and listens to slander, let him be punished.
WOLFF [Listens for a while, opens the door softly andlistens again.
He listens carefully and then leaves, the room quickly by the middle door.
He interrupts himself, listens, becomes restless again, advances to the door and listens there.
Hearing nothing there, she hastens over to the door of the conservatory, where she also listens for a few moments with tense expression.
He listens and then turns leisurely back to the little gate.
Sir Leicester watches the sleet and snow and listens for the returning steps that he expects.
Allan proceeds to tell him all he knows about Jo, unto which the trooper listens with a grave face.
When he has done so, he looks out again at the falling sleet and snow and listens again for the returning steps.
He has opened only the upper door and leans on the lower wing, as on a gate, while he listensto the Rat Killer's story.
Already he has put the proffered money into the wallet he carries at his belt, and listens attentively to the orders given him.
For over two hours Oswald listens to the proceedings of this tribunal.
Sir Donald listens patiently, and quietly refers to the many hazards.
Pressing his ear upon Paul's breast, he listens for heartbeats.
And looks and listensfor the boy behind: For he, alas!
You are, you mean," said his sister; "and she listensand makes big eyes.
There are some bits of Handel that have great power over the girl; she listens to them, I might almost say, devoutly, and is never weary.
Clutching her telephone-wire with a toe, the Spider listens with her leg; she can tell the difference between the vibration proceeding from a prisoner and the mere shaking caused by the wind.
When she is not hunting, as we have seen, she walks the corridors around her eggs, she listens to find out if all is well.
With a full stomach, her legs luxuriously stretched over the down carpet, she does nothing, thinks of nothing; she listens to the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
The mother walks gravely to and fro under the arches of these corridors, which are like the cloisters of a nunnery; she stops first here, then there; she listens to all that happens inside the satin wrapper of her egg-wallet.
He listens to his own bow, to the heart of his audience, and to the soul of the composer all at once.
He holds him with his glittering eye-- The wedding guest stood still And listens like a three year's child; The Marinere hath his will.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "listens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
