Rustling

(noun.) the stealing of cattle.

录入:丽莎

• Deep in midnight, she was awaked by a rustling near her; she would have started up, but her stiff joints refused to obey her will. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Presently there was a rustle and a tap, and then some more rustling and another tap. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She is rather long, notwithstanding; but by and by I hear a rustling at the door, and someone taps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He heard a rustling on his left hand, a cloaked figure with an upturned face appeared at the base of the Barrow, and Clym descended. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Nobody had disturbed her, no faint rustling of the silk dress had been audible, either in the ante-room or in the passage. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I heard the rustling of her gown. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• No rustling of the leaves--no bird's note in the wood--no cry of water-fowl from the pools of the hidden lake. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mrs. Snagsby is so perpetually on the alert that the house becomes ghostly with creaking boards and rustling garments. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Thus, the rustling of an Angel's wings got blended with the other echoes, and they were not wholly of earth, but had in them that breath of Heaven. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A low moan close to her ear followed, and the rustling increased; she heard a smothered voice breathe out, Water, Water! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• A step so quick, so light, that, but for the rustling of leaves, it would scarcely have sounded on the wood-walk, checked his impatience. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Presently a faint rustling of the bush apprised him of the stealthy creeping of the thing behind. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The rustling of a bank-note was audible, as she unfolded one and laid it on the table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• A rustling like silk? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Meanwhile the men stood in calm little groups, chatting, smoking, pretending to pay no heed to the rustling animation of the women's world. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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