She was never robust, and it has been too much for her," I overheard Leah say to one of the other servants, in allusion to the illness.
Those men are saying in the kitchen that it was I who attacked Lord Level; I overheard them," she shuddered, the words coming from her brokenly in her agitation.
And Lady Level, who was in the adjoining room, overheard the words.
Some creaking of its hinges was unavoidably produced, which I feared would be overheard by the lady and multiply her apprehensions and perplexities.
His cries or groans could not be overheardamidst the uproar of the waters.
These had often been overheard by night during my last year's excursion to the lakes.
I overheard him chuckling quietly to himself now and then, as he sat in his corner, and the sound was pleasant to my ears for more reasons than one.
As will be remembered, the words I had overheard clearly pointed to the elder Mr Grey being the centre of the trouble--my own instinctive conviction since my first glimpse of the four faces in the square pew at Millflowers church.
For I had never wavered in my first intuition, that Mr Grey himself was the centre of the mystery, and the words I had overheard had deepened this impression.
No reasonable person could doubt that the stories were one and the same; that the Ernest Fitzmaurice whose name I had overheard was this very man.
He had had a lesson; all the same I was glad to know that he had overheard nothing of the dialogue which had so impressed me myself.
Then the words I had unwillingly overheard recurred to my memory.
When I separated from my companion this gentleman came to my side, and said that he had overheard some of our talk, and he wished me to know that Mr A.
He was a big repulsive-looking man in a black greasy coat--a human animal to be avoided; but I overheard him say something about rare birds which caused me to put on a friendly air and join in the talk.
The son overheard this discourse, and thought within himself, "that shall never come to pass.
As my unseen vessel glided softly past the side of one fishing-boat, whose name I could just make as the Crane, I overheard a few scraps of conversation, which threw a pathetic light on the situation.
I have overheard all sorts of things in the train, my boy, and do you know, I have learned that life's a beastly thing!
One day, going down to the river to bathe, I accidentally overheard a conversation.
Her mind hastily reviewed the two conversations she had overheard between Marian and Henry Hammond.
I feel sure that Henry Hammond is a thoroughly unscrupulous person, and I shall not rest until I find out what the conversation weoverheard leads to.
In this manner all the overheard sentences were repeated amid close attention, the interest increasing with every word.
The priest thought they had started westward to join Rast and Tita, having been fascinated by what they had overheard of Rast's letters.
It is a pity, since Bessmer overheard so much, that while she was about it she did not overhear more," said Heathcote, dryly.
After Pere Michaux had left her in the hall, she had stolen to the back door of the sitting-room, laid her ear on the floor close to the crack under it, and overheard all.
The earl, though he had not overheard the whispered sentences which passed between his daughters, had watched them closely, and his lip quivered with emotion as Isabel closed the door.
He sought him at once; he found him in a remote part of the gardens, andoverheard him breathing to himself the lay he had just composed.
I've discovered something," said Stuffer, and then related how he had been down to Cedarville on business and had overheard Roy Bock and several other students talking at the steamboat dock.
He had not overheard all that was said, but had heard enough to make sure that Bock and about twelve other students from Pornell Academy had come over to Putnam Hall at midnight and removed the cannon and the flagstaff.
So am I," added Ritter boldly, and then he spoke of a talk he had overheardbetween Jack, Pepper and Fred Century.
Miss Lucy, entering the ward at the moment, overheard the remark, as her eyes met Polly's.
The next day, and the next, the lad was again too ill for company, and a few sentences which Polly overheard filled her with foreboding.
Other ears besides Aimee's had overheard the news about Polly.
Polly overheard Maude sneer, as she hurried away in response to her aunt's call.
That set Elsie into a flutter of blissful anticipations, so that when she overheard the Doctor telling Polly the auto got to wish she, to, could have a drive.
Meantime Miss Lucy, at her table, textbook in hand, overheard and wished and planned.
Preferring positive independence, I followed her, and then she told me that she had overheard the tramp last night swearing I was as good as a fistful of half-crowns lost to him if he missed me.
While he uttered these praises, he was overheard by Tybalt, a nephew of lord Capulet, who knew him by his voice to be Romeo.
Borachio had been overheard talking with one of his companions of the mischief he had been employed by Don John to do.
He was overheard making this vow by one that had been an old and faithful servant to their father, and that loved Orlando because he resembled Sir Rowland.
She had nothing on which to base her accusation of Carey save an overheard threat.
Not merely then, but half a dozen times through the meal that followed, Clancy resisted the almost overpowering temptation to tell what she had overheard being said in the Carey dining-room.
Goertz had overheard this conversation, and turned once more towards his daughters.
Mac Donalbain, who had overheard it, 'It will be much better that we take our last farewell here above ground.
Especially interesting is the scene between William Wallace and the Earl of Carrick, after the battle of Falkirk, and the appearance of Robert Bruce, whooverheard this conversation, fighting by the side of Wallace.
The District Visitors came in a body and tendered their resignations, and the first remarks which he overheard about his sermons as he passed a group of parishioners at night on his way home from church were, “Oh, what a dreary sermon!
One expression may be mentioned which wasoverheard in the conversation of two gentlemen on the day of the funeral (one of them a man of light and leading in the world).
She was, of course, unaware that I had overheard all that had passed between her and the man Richard Keene.
The man Logan overheard her answer, and urged her to remain patient.
I explained how I had seen the stranger and overheard his conversation with Warr, whereupon she said-- "I expected that he would return, but it seems that he does not intend to do so.
I repeated to David all that I had overheardunder the window of the eating-house.
But on that day he was very much out of humour; the day before he had overheard quite by chance in the street a conversation between their servant and a neighbouring peasant woman.
On the last of these visits I again overheard some scraps of their talk, and this time it was angrier.
As we trooped back to the schoolroom I overheard Faulkner say to another of the seniors-- "I say, did you see the way Tempest flared up when I said that about the pistol just now?
But, as he saw with whom I was conferring, and overheardthe subject of our conversation, he thought better of it, and with lowering face stalked away.
A short conversation I overheard as I was fagging in his study that morning, however, was not encouraging.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overheard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
