Heard [adjective]

“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

I ne'er heard yet that any of these bolder vices wanted less impudence to gainsay what they did, than to perform it first.

I could have sworn I heard a cry, and one of my men spoke in a tone that assured me my imagination had not been playing a trick.

He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!

I looked round to see where our help was most wanted, and was about to lead them forward, when I heard the voice of the Alcalde.

Mrs. Vivian had hardly spoken when the sharp little vibration of her door-bell was heard in the hall.

She gave details of the singular mood that had come upon her with the arrival of Tony, but Tom hardly heard her.

The sound of the swift beating of horse-hoofs was heard from the south, and soon three men came riding up.

Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf.

I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.