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Example sentences for "stood listening"

  • Forgive me my question, Jesus, Saddoc answered, and the three Essenes, leaning over the edge of the gorge, stood listening to the mutter of the brook.

  • But nobody was on the stairs, and he stood listening on the landing, asking himself if Esora was at work so early.

  • While I stood listening to these disputes with a boy's awe of a man's quarrel, what was my astonishment to feel a hand on my shoulder.

  • He stood listening, heart-stricken, to the sounds that came through the bedroom wall, and a spasm crossed his face.

  • Cowan thrust me past the clerk into the store, where I stood listening to the little man on the roof, scratching and clutching at the shingles, and coughing still.

  • Dexter felt as if their expedition was at an end, and he stood listening with a breast full of despair as Bob lay down at the edge of the river, and rolling up his sleeve began feeling about in the shallow water.

  • As he reached the door, however, a faint sob reached his ear, and as he stood listening it was very evident that some one was in grievous trouble, sobbing and crying as if her heart would break.

  • Then, panting heavily, though his exertions had been slight, he stood listening again, not daring to go nearer to the edge of the shaft.

  • He stood listening, for it seemed to him that a low harsh moan had come from out of the dark shady woodland near where he stood.

  • Lady Markham seized her son's hand as he stood listening at the deep mullioned window, while Lil clung to the other.

  • Then the wall moved back, and he stood listening--no sound, no anything!

  • At any little sound she stopped and stood listening--save for her hair and eyes, as white from head to foot as a double narcissus flower in the dusk, bending towards some faint tune played to it somewhere oft in the fields.

  • At the top of the third flight she paused for breath, and holding on to the bannisters, stood listening.

  • As I stood listening to the breathing of the horses, the excitement in which I had passed the last few hours died away, and left me wondering--wondering, and a little regretful.

  • Then I stepped back, and under cover of the babel that instantly poured up the staircase I drew Mademoiselle into the room behind us, and, closing the door which faced the stairs, stood listening.

  • As I stood listening, while the solemn stars gazed down, the slight which St. Alais had put upon me dwindled--dwindled to its true dimensions.

  • In the darkness of the apartment I stood listening to the retreating footsteps in the corridor.

  • Conscious of a longing to cry out--if only that the sound of my own voice might reassure me--I stood listening.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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