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Rustling

noun

The stealing of cattle.

A light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind. Synonyms: rustle, whisper, whispering.

adjective

Characterized by soft sounds. Synonyms: murmurous, soughing, susurrous. "A soughing wind in the pines" , "A slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"

Rustle

verb

(past & past part. rustled; pres. part. rustling)

Make a dry crackling sound. "The dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"

Take illegally. Synonym: lift.

Forage food.

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"Rustling" Quotes from Famous Books

... it," she replied quietly, stroking her horse. Her cheeks were glowing and she let the overhanging branches screen her face. As they rode on silently they heard the rustling of the leaves beneath the horses' feet, and the soft wind playing through the forest. A chain of lights and shadows ran before them into the misty purple of the distance, where the dim trees went ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

... sleep, the melodies she had just heard still echoing in her ears. A soft rustling outside the tent door made her open her eyes, and she started in surprise at the fairy scene which was being enacted there. In the open grassy space before the tent figures were passing back and forth and winding in and out in the mazes of a dance. So silently ...

— The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods - Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping • Hildegard G. Frey

... the oracles was that of the Pelasgian Zeus at Dodona, in Epirus, and that of Apollo at Delphi, in Phocis. At Dodona the priests listened in the dark forests for the voice of Zeus in the rustling leaves of the sacred oak. At Delphi there was a deep fissure in the ground, which emitted stupefying vapors, that were thought to be the inspiring breath of Apollo. Over the spot was erected a splendid temple, in honor of the oracle. The revelation ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... night, ma'am." Auntie Nan hopped upstairs in her rustling dress, relieved and glad in the sweet selfishness of her love to get rid of Pete and ...

— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine

... of warnings of the dangers of the place, Irving had his bed set up in the chamber beside this little garden. The first night was full of frightful terrors. The garden was dark and sinister. "There was a slight rustling noise overhead; a bat suddenly emerged from a broken panel of the ceiling, flitting about the room and athwart my solitary lamp; and as the fateful bird almost flouted my face with his noiseless wing, the grotesque faces carved in high relief in the cedar ...

— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody

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