Overhearing
[,ovɚ'hɪr]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhear
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Examples
- You will excuse me, said Holmes blandly, but I could not help overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Legree could not help overhearing this whispering; and it was all the more exciting to him, from the pains that were taken to conceal it from him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- One may imagine her suffering on overhearing fragments of this sort of conversation. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Whether he were overhearing too, she could not determine. Jane Austen. Emma.
- That five minutes of overhearing furnished Eustacia with visions enough to fill the whole blank afternoon. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I discovered this, from overhearing the lady in the bow-window say to the guard, 'Take care of that child, George, or he'll burst! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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