Hearer

Examples

• The break he set between his last two sentences was quite embarrassing to his hearer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• THAT belonged rather to the hearer, for Marianne listened with horror, and cried excessively. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Mrs. Trenor's words were moreover emphasized for her hearer by anxieties which she herself could scarcely guess. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Jessie quickly read, in the sparkle of her hearer's eye and the laughter hovering round her lips, that at last she had hit on a topic that pleased. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She made the statement clearly, deliberately, with pauses between the sentences, so that each should have time to sink deeply into her hearer's mind. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the lyric poet the control is often so delicate that the hearer lives over again the finely shaded mood of the poet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In conclusion he would only ask his hearers to read the paper and discussion carefully when published, and he was sure any one would be able to carry out the process. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• With those words, and a final snap of his fingers, Mr. Stryver shouldered himself into Fleet-street, amidst the general approbation of his hearers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Mr. Jackson's fingers wandered playfully round his nose at this portion of his discourse, to warn his hearers that he was speaking ironically. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There was a propriety, not to say a dignity in these words, that made the hearers yet more quiet and attentive. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• We were right, I needn't tell the present hearers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In adopting such a manner, you can seldom expect to please your hearers, or obtain the concurrence you desire. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is impossible to conceive the disgust which this avowal awakened in the bosoms of the hearers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Probably some of Mr. Farebrother's Middlemarch hearers may follow him to Lowick sometimes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And here he startled and disconcerted his hearers by a gleam of something approaching sentimentality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mrs. Rouncewell can trust to the discretion of her two young hearers and may tell THEM how the terrace came to have that ghostly name. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The excellent lady delivered this luminous elucidation of her views with an air of greatly obliging her hearers, and greatly distinguishing herself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At the same time also the work was begun in Tennessee and Kentucky which Mr. Davis had assured his hearers at Palmetto and Macon would take place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This gallantry was not much to the taste of some of his hearers; but Mrs. Bennet, who quarreled with no compliments, answered most readily. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Universal astonishment fell upon the hearers. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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