Listeners [noun]

Setting aside timidity, we find that well-informed persons are sometimes‌ good listeners, but no talkers.

He went down the road, collected his little knot of listeners, and began the Song of the Girl.

There was a silence after this somewhat lengthy speech, and something like an uncanny feeling possessed the listeners.

He could talk four hours without interruption, but sometimes his listeners, learned men too, did not understand a word of it.

Hazlet told his story with such deep solemnity, and such hollow pauses of emotion, that the listeners sat silent for a while.

It had invaded fresh territory, he said, added to the range of expression, and was meanwhile a new language to casual listeners.

The nerves of the listeners were at such a tension that they were quite unconscious of their exposed position in the hall.

He was rhetorically holding forth; the other two were earnest listeners—his theme, the battle of Vittoria.

The unseen listeners could not hear the leader's reply; but those about the speaker laughed and shouted with great glee.

Other listeners had been attracted by the melody, but we stood in a shadow, near a rill that fell into the mere.