I ceased my counting; no longer I noted the tick-tick of the clock, nor the vague creakings, rustlings and whispers.
He was always deceived by these rustlings which promised wind and seldom fulfilled that promise.
There were mysterious rustlings that made him glance hopefully toward the sea.
He heard the light rustlings of other animals coming to comfort and safety, and flutterings as birds settled on upthrust boughs, many of which were still covered with leaves.
He would hear any sound within a hundred yards and he would know what it was, but there was none save the rustlings of the little animals, and dawn came, peaceful and clear.
His straining ears caught rustlings among the grass and roots, but otherwise a solemn peace brooded over the scene.
In the stillness the wood-mice came out and resumed their play, with fairy-thin squeaks and almost inaudible patterings and rustlings over the dry carpet of the fir needles.
Nothing was to be seen, nothing more was to be heard, but a few of these mysterious rustlings far and near, and the ceaseless accompaniment of the river and the frogs.
Their alternate rustlings and silences are unmistakable.
As I climbed the last ridge on my way back to the lake, I heard rustlings in the underbrush, and then the unmistakable crack of a twig under a deer's foot.
I was standing very still by my fire, waiting for a big trout that had risen and missed my fly to regain his confidence, when I heard cautious rustlings in the brush behind me.
There was no ray of hope to his eye nor note of it to his ear--only the cries and the rustlings back of him, driving him out.
The light grew until it glowed with the fire of opals; through the tree-tops ran little stirs of wakefulness, and all about him were faint, furtive rustlings and whispers of the new day.
He only heard the robins whistling from dawn to dusk, the rush and patter of the sudden sparkling showers, the rustlings and murmurs that showed the woods were full of life about them.
The thump--thump of his leisurely progress died away, and then the quiet was disturbed only by the cries of night-birds and those continuous, faint rustlings and murmurs which seemed but a part of silence.
Stealthy rustlingsin the shadows grew louder with the setting sun.
There was movement also, in the darkness beside him, scrapings and rustlings and an occasional low, throaty sound like an angry cat.
Alan peered around him at the vine-draped shadows, listening to the soft rustlings and faint twig-snappings of life in the jungle.
And now the man began to discern, here and there through the forest, queer rustlings of the foliage that meant the passing through of some of the great beasts of prey.
The forests were silent, and the little rustlings and stirrings that reached him from time to time only seemed to accentuate the quiet.
Everywhere on this side, along the edge of the water and up the steep bank, were faint tickings of twigs and soft rustlings of leaves.
There were rustlings in the thick underbrush and the whir of ducks.
All along the shores were faint splashings and rustlings and crackings.
There was a sound of footsteps and rustlings on the stairs.
Mrs. Oxenham made no remarks upon what she saw, nor upon the rustlings and whisperings that she heard, because these people were Jenny's relatives; and Jenny took no notice of anything.
The throng had filled the church with suffocating heat and with the low rustlingsof unceasing small movements.
He could not sleep, but lay tossing and shivering feverishly for hour after hour, fancying weird rustlings and whispers in the stillness, and remembering all the eerie tales of the Russian folk-lore.
Such sound as remained over the interminable breadth of that dark forest was only the faint stirrings and rustlings of the beasts of prey going to their hunting; and this was only a moving tone in the great chord of silence.
Foresters know that on certain nights the wilderness seems simply to teem with life--scratchings and rustlings in every covert--and on other nights it is still and lifeless as a desert.
Hours at a time, sitting by Nalasu or standing apart from him, he was taught to catch the slightest sounds or rustlings from the bush.
There were more rustlings and creakings and rumblings in the empty house than she had ever imagined, and she went backward through the hall for fear of something coming after her.
In an incredibly short time Jane was feeling her way along the hall and down the staircase, now a well of unfathomable blackness and incredible rustlings and creakings.
He said they were like faint moans and rustlings and sometimes a soft step along the halls.
At that hour vague moanings and rustlings were reported by one or another of the interested investigators, but no human agency was found to account for these.
There were many other strange things to be accounted for, such as moanings and rustlingsin the morning at four o'clock, and also occasional odours of prussic acid, without apparent reason.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rustlings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
