"Earshot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... left hand to the "carried" carbine in salute and turned away. When he was out of earshot, Gleason spoke ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... clear of the gaiety around me, and this was one of the cases in which I much wished for advice. I felt inclined to appeal to Mr. Stanton; he had stood a little apart from the others talking to General Forsyth, but I felt sure that he had been within earshot of the whole conversation. Yet his words that afternoon came back to me. I must get my orders from my Master, and not from him. And, as so often before, I went down on my knees in my room, and with my Bible before me sought the advice ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre
... whispered a few words to Tristan, and Tristan very reluctantly gave the order of liberation. The comrades of the Cockleshell were freed of their bonds and bade to stand apart, under guard and out of earshot, to wait on destiny for future commands. At this moment Louis, glancing upwards, caught sight between the flower vases on the terrace of a gleam of crimson, the crimson silk of a woman's robe. It betrayed the presence of Katherine de Vaucelles, ...
— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... to see that no outsider was within earshot. "Why do you play the game with them, Captain ...
— The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes • Arthur M. Winfield
... whether the hole had been won by Sandy's man or whether it had been halved. Eventually it was agreed that it was halved, but as the players moved away to the next tee, he who was six down being out of earshot in front, his opponent remarked to Sandy, "You know, Sandy, I still think I won that hole after all." Sandy seemed shocked at such a cold-blooded greed for holes, and reprovingly, very seriously, and sharply said to his employer, "Haud yer ...
— The Complete Golfer [1905] • Harry Vardon
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