As Taland was not by to overhear and provide against the arrangement, it was carried out to the letter this time; and all tied in a sack the struggling victim was borne along in triumph towards the Hoch Gerach.
I chanced to overhear the words, or rather a portion of them, which Brennan whispered, and have no doubt if they were explained to the General he would feel more kindly disposed toward you.
Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's, and while I seem attentive to nothing but the Postman, overhear the conversation of every table in the room.
Morphiliziy did his best to overhear their conversation and understood that they were laughing at his confidence.
Returning to that spot whence I had descended to overhear their conversation, I suddenly came upon a little stream and sat down on its bank.
Their tone and manner were what you say,--so much so that I went away, not to overhear them.
He didn't mean Jack to overhear him; he had no wish to hurt the boy's feelings.
But Jack did overhearand came promptly into the room.
As Gustavus did not know that girls overlook nothing and overhear everything, the whole catechism was to him a love letter, in which he conversed with her.
Oefel began at once to observe him in order to describe him at evening; but in company he observed everybody, not in order to overhear others' tricks, but to exhibit his own.
I know it, myself, because, pretending drunkenness, I was able tooverhear enough of a conversation between Annouchka and a man whose name I must conceal.
They saw Lieutenant Taylor and the sailor seated at a small table, on which were a bottle and glasses, and they could plainly overhear the conversation that passed between them.
Evidently they do not answer because they fear someone will overhear the message.
It's too much for me," said Jack; "but if we listen we may overhear something worth while.
There are others aboard the Sylph whom he did not wish to overhear such a communication.
None can overhear the exchange of greetings between our hearts.
The wily maidens do not take this up, but, turning from him, permit him tooverhear the remarks about him which they exchange among themselves: "So handsome!
He has been standing near enough to overhear Erik's last sentences; the significance of these seems scarcely ambiguous, his inference is natural.
He had said all this in a subdued and rapid voice, apparently only talking to himself--the only man worthy of learning the most secret thoughts of his soul--and still with proud disdain toward him who could overhear every word he said.
After this reply, Bernadotte approached the empress somewhat nearer, and cautiously and searchingly glanced around the room in order to satisfy himself that no one but her majesty could overhear his words.
She then went with rapid steps to the boudoir contiguous to the dressing-room, and here, where she was sure that no one could see or overhear her, she allowed the proud mask to glide from her face, and showed its boundless despair.
I happened to overhear you just now, Gussie, and I must say that your words displeased me very much.
You cannot speak to her, you know, for you happened to overhear us; and it would not be fair, would it?
Have we a right to repeat or to overhear her prayers?
Because there are sometimes noises in the house which would arouse the curiosity of any who chanced to overhear them.
There are some people trying to overhear our conversation.
Now and then he would accidentally be so close in their vicinity as to be able to overhear scraps of their conversation.
With no teasing schoolboys to overhear her, she felt that here, at last, was a chance of making friends with her odd little tomboy of a cousin.
Angela happened to overhear her, and at once took upon herself to quench this unseemly appearance of cheerfulness, and to remind her that she was still only a new girl.
He would be anything but flattered could he but overhear our conversation," continued the companion of the gay stranger.
They spoke in whispers, hence I could not overhear a word that passed; but I saw distinctly a letter pass from her hand to his, and the action of both during their brief conversation was marked and energetic.
It was necessary that I should overhear what was said.
Somebody might overhear you and think it was queer.
Creeping like a serpent through the grass, the scout approached near enough to overhear their arrangements, which were to the elect that the attack should take place at midnight of the following day.
He went as near as he dared trying to overhear words.
The two unnoticed foot soldiers made a little show of going on, but they lingered near in the desire to overhear the conversation.
At length she had managed to overhear him ask at one shop for a copy of Royal Love Letters.
I suppose they thought they were alone, or, at any rate, that no one who might overhear them would be likely to understand their lingo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overhear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: catch; eavesdrop; get; hear; know
