hearer

If Alfaretta had tried she couldn't have hit upon a more terrifying word to her hearer.

“This accompanied it,” said Winifred, with a restraint that might have warned her hearer of the passion it strove to conceal.

Thus a cry of warning may be so modulated as to indicate to the hearer, "Beware, a lion is coming!"

Here they drew off, and their apparently disinterested hearer turned the page of his paper.

At the flash of his eyes, bright as carbuncles, a fire seemed to burn to each hearer's deepest soul.