Listening under such circumstances is probably best approached as a spiritual exercise.

Dominique sat at the window, listening to the train wheels under the floor.

"Listen, keep this under your hats, all of you birds."

The debate was okay, even though they're just like all adults, they never want to listen to anybody under twenty.

He decided that it was better to listen under handicap than to risk a move with the door.

To the great university they had wandered, to listen to the teachers under the porticoes.

A life in which he could spend long summer nights listening to music under the stars, with Sonya by his side.

Then silence, and we listened to the wind under the eaves.

Now there are 250,000 people going to the Books Festival alone, and listening to talks on every subject under the sun.

But nothing too jarring to start with; something they would enjoy listening to under ordinary circumstances.