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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

... receive the congratulations of Traddles, and to feel as if I were translated to regions of exquisite happiness. Exactly at the expiration of the quarter of an hour, they reappeared with no less dignity than they had disappeared. They had gone rustling away as if their little dresses were made of autumn-leaves: and they came rustling back, in ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... of the neighbourhood believed that he'd locked up the plague in an underground room of the Abbey, and for years they dared not excavate for fear the demon should leap out and ravage the country. They used to think they could hear a rustling——" ...

— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... started. Gathering about the bare table, we ate our dismal meal in a depressed silence, while she bustled back and forth from the kitchen in her holiday attire, which consisted of a stiff black bombazine dress and the long rustling crape veil she had first put on at the death of her uncle Benjamin, some twenty years before. As her only outings were those occasioned by the deaths of her neighbours, I suppose her costume was quite as appropriate as it seemed to my childish eyes. Certainly, ...

— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... opened with a grating noise. The court was a sounding board. It carried to her even the shuffling of the old man's feet as he must have approached the bed. The glow of his candle vanished. She heard a rustling as if he had stretched himself on the bed, a ...

— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp

... going round in a circle,' he muttered, and tried another corridor of ravines which presently led him to the place where he had slid down the hill. He fancied he heard murmurings overhead and looked up, but it was only the rustling of the bushes. The wind had sprung up on the hillside and was driving before it clouds of fine snow which stung his face and ...

— Selected Polish Tales • Various

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