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Listened in sentence

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He listened and a plan formed within him: in case the strike turned out badly, why not utilize it by letting things run down until his neighbour was ruined, and then buy up his concession at a low price?
One who belonged to the country would be better listened to.
Maheu listened with his eyes down.
At times he listened to himself with surprise as though a stranger were speaking within him.
"Tell me, what have you got in your skin, at your age?"Catherine, standing beside the table, listened with lowered head.
The women listened with timid humility, apologizing, and watching his eyes to see if he would relent.
M. Hennebeau, who was at this hour returning home mounted on his mare, listened to these vague sounds.
There was deep silence, and they listened to this old man, who was like a pale spectre beneath the moon, and as he narrated things without any immediate relation with the discussion--long histories which no one could understand--the impression was increased.
At last they listened.
Chaval listened in silence, with his fists at first clenched, but then gradually unbent.
He listened from the top of the cutting, and could hear no sound of wheels.
He was not always listened to; and was again about to be carried away by the crowd, when hoots arose outside at a little low door where the ladder passage emerged.
The manager then heard, for the first time, of the meeting in the forest the evening before; the details were very precise, and he listened while thinking of the intrigue with Pierronne, so well known that two or three anonymous letters every week denounced the licentiousness of the head captain.
He listened, nodding his head, but he did not hear; his thoughts were in the room upstairs.
He had listened to the directors' offers.
The workman listened, seized with the popular hatred against the army--against these brothers whose hearts were changed by sticking a pair of red pantaloons on to their buttocks.
He listened, trembling lest he should hear the cries of a beaten woman.
But nothing stirred, and he bent down, felt the hands that were gradually becoming icy, and listened to the heart, which had stopped beneath the overcoat.
" These men, who had listened quietly, with motionless mute faces, to the fraternal appeals and the friendly attempts to win them over, preserved the same stiff passivity beneath this hail of abuse.
They listened, hesitating.
I've always been in favour of quietness, and if you had listened to me, you certainly wouldn't be where you are now."
Souvarine had listened to him, shuddering.
It was now descending beneath so violent a rain, like a storm, that the workmen anxiously listened to the pouring.
He was not listened to, and he had to prevent the pale and cowardly Pierron from entering among the first.
In a fury, Zacharie struck in his turn, and listened anew with bright eyes, and limbs trembling with joy.
She struck, beating the miner's call; and they listened and again distinguished the three blows far off.
The old man listened with bent shoulders.
The joy of rejoining Pluchart and of being, like Pluchart, a leader who was listened to, inspired him with speeches, and he began to arrange the phrases.
Help!"Ceasing all movement for an instant, we listened.
The man with calm, gentle eyes listened to me serenely, even courteously, and paid remarkable attention.
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