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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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... 'Mission' you are speaking, Helen?" interrupted her mother-in-law, rustling in silk and jewels, "Yes; of course we must go. We shall be quite out of the fashion, if we do not. The most distingue persons in town are ...

— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey

... Kenya's administrative boundary still extends into the Sudan, creating the "Ilemi Triangle"; Kenya has acted as an important mediator in Sudan's north-south civil war; Kenya and Uganda are working together to stem cattle rustling and violence by Lord's ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... parted, plastered hair and an aggressive voice and rustling silks, dominated the conversation. She is the wife of the brother of the late Mr. Gurrage's partner who ...

— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn

... same perch. Over the mantelpiece hung the portrait in oils of the pretty baby, who yet was not so pretty as hers. Charlotte remembered how she had longed for these pretty things for her children, but all desire for them had left her now. There was the rustling of a silk dress heard in the passage, and Charlotte Harman carelessly, but richly attired, came in. There was, even in their outward appearance, the full contrast between the rich and the poor observable at this moment, for Charlotte Harman, ...

— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade

... he resist that appeal? He heard her sigh—he heard the rustling of her dress as she moved away in despair. The very thing that he had shrunk from doing but a few minutes since was the thing that he did now! He joined Agnes in the corridor. She turned as she heard him, and pointed, trembling, in the direction ...

— The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins

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