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Rustling in sentence

47 examples of Rustling in a sentence

In the same way that when I see a tree moves, then I imagine that tree making a rustling sound.
More recently, Thomas Schelling gives the analogy of a homeowner who hears a rustling in the basement.
(Paper rustling) Well, that'll be all the slides.
One can always tell if I'm enjoying a movie by the number of times I cross my legs, switch positions, make slight rustling noises, etc., etc.
Plot-wise this is like any other B western--two neighboring ranchers suspect each other of rustling their cattle.
Randolph Scott is a former Confederate soldier and Joan Bennett plays a woman who refuses to admit when the Civil War is over in James Hogan's cattle rustling epic, which looks and feels in retrospect a lot like a B version of Howard Hawks' "Red River."
Mayo and Company worked wonders with the desert set, with its cacti, tumbleweeds and air of rustling menace.
For sure he's willing to throw a bucket of gratuitous sex and violence in our face, but, believe it or not, there is something rustling behind the curtains in Flypaper.
Buck is our hero, from one of two families warring against themselves, each thinking that the other is rustling their herd.
Too often, these four-legged snacks ignore information right in front of them – like rustling in the underbrush or the scent of a passing carnivore.
The crowd of friends and relatives, their voices buzzing and the ladies' trains rustling, moved after them.
The screaming had ceased, and he heard a sound of movement, of rustling, of accelerated breathing, and her voice, faltering, living, tender, and happy, as it said, 'It's over.'
'Mon ami,' said she, carefully holding the folds of her silk dress to prevent its rustling, and in her excitement calling Karenin not 'Alexis Alexandrovich' but 'mon ami,' 'donnez-lui la main.
Through the whole country, by the roads and pathways of the flat plain, ever since twilight, there had been a long procession, a rustling of silent shadows, moving separately or in groups towards the violet thickets of the forest.
Between the hedges, among the bushes, there was only a light rustling, a vague rumour of the voices of the night.
He recalled his old suspicion, the rustling against the doors, the naked feet at night through the silent house.
A light rustling, a sob, seemed to him to have come out of the depths of the earth.
It was an endless rustling, a general downfall, the forced march of a beaten army, moving on with lowered heads, sullenly absorbed in the desire to renew the struggle and achieve revenge.
The rushes, close to the ground, whistled; the branches trembled in a swift rustling, while their summits, ceaselessly swaying, kept up a deep murmur.
It was the dinner-hour at the farms, and the young woman and her companion heard nothing as they walked but the fall of their steps on the earth of the path, the words they spoke, and the sound of Emma's dress rustling round her.
Behind them they heard the river flowing, and now and again on the bank the rustling of the dry reeds.
K was pleased at the tension among all the people there as they listened to him, a rustling rose from the silence which was more invigorating than the most ecstatic applause could have been.
And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops down to kiss it with a sister's kiss, and throws her silver arms around it clingingly; and we watch it as it flows, ever singing, ever whispering, out to meet its king, the sea - till our voices die away in silence, and the pipes go out - till we, common-place, everyday young men enough, feel strangely full of thoughts, half sad, half sweet, and do not care or want to speak - till we laugh, and, rising, knock the ashes from our burnt-out pipes, and say "Good-night," and, lulled by the lapping water and the rustling trees, we fall asleep beneath the great, still stars, and dream that the world is young again - young and sweet as she used to be ere the centuries of fret and care had furrowed her fair face, ere her children's sins and follies had made old her loving heart - sweet as she was in those bygone days when, a new-made mother, she nursed us, her children, upon her own deep breast - ere the wiles of painted civilization had lured us away from her fond arms, and the poisoned sneers of artificiality had made us ashamed of the simple life we led with her, and the simple, stately home where mankind was born so many thousands years ago.
Many of the old houses, round about, speak very plainly of those days when Kingston was a royal borough, and nobles and courtiers lived there, near their King, and the long road to the palace gates was gay all day with clanking steel and prancing palfreys, and rustling silks and velvets, and fair faces.
"What rustling noise is that among the rocks?""It must have been the rushing of the melody.
The peddler entered the thicket with a little caution, and avoided, as much as possible, rustling or breaking the branches in his way.
There was a rustling of dresses, and the standing congregation sat down.
A sweep of chilly air passed by, rustling all the leaves and snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.
But there was no whispering in the house; only the funereal rustling of dresses as the women gathered to their seats disturbed the silence there.
Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.