list'ning

What was missing from the Today programme item – oddly, since this was a journey made by a writer – was a sense of that other matchless attraction of cemeteries: the words engraved on the headstones, not just of those who once commanded applause from list'ning senates, but also, as Thomas Gray mused in the churchyard at Stoke Poges, those whose graves may be marked by "uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture".

Cemeteries: Far from the madding crowd | Editorial 2010

I've been on tenterhooks ending in dirty looks, list'ning to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that.

Where's the professor? We Need Him NOW! hyperdave 2008

I've been on tenterhooks ending in dirty looks, list'ning to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that.

Archive 2008-07-01 hyperdave 2008

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise, High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Illegal Immigrants Downtown Nathaniel Livingston 2006

He winds the wood, and, list'ning, hears the noise

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

And round with list'ning ears the flying plague is hung.

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

While lambies are list'ning and bleating for thee?

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

And so we have decided -- are you list'ning, Brother Eyer?

Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

Whose very name gives list'ning fools the "blues,"

The Minstrel A Collection of Poems Lennox Amott

Whare Johnnie was list'ning, and heard her tell a ';

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various