Traditional communities, that the word hark backs to, were people with weak ties. From Wordnik.com. [Deeplinking] Reference
'See, see, mother; hark, that is the cry of the little bird, the hawk has got it.'. From Wordnik.com. [Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney] Reference
And all ye fellow-citizens, hark to me while I tell. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
"hark, hark, O my soul! angelic songs are swelling.". From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
But hark, the grandfather clock tings noon and noodles. From Wordnik.com. [Old Houses] Reference
The arm wherewith his cause struck -- hark! how ringeth. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
Sister, hark! the very air heavy on my heart doth bear. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
And now he is bowing to the people -- hark how they shout. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
He suffers! hark! he moans thy loss in many a doleful sigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
An 'hark ye! it's the same as the psalm my mither taught me. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
"I always hark back to it," he told John Dean during Watergate. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of N] Reference
The problems in Iowa hark back to the early days of the SE pandemic. From Wordnik.com. [Egg-loving salmonella bacteria have been sickening people for decades] Reference
"If only a train would come along now, so we could flag it -- hark!". From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
It is necessary to hark back a little now to the moment when Torquato. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
"But hark! that's the fire-bell; there must be a fire somewhere," said. From Wordnik.com. [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference
To hark back: at 4.30 a.m., ere dawn had tinged the east, the Sirdar bade. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
But hark you, Mr. Wiseman, to something not dreamt of in your philosophy!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
But now are th 'dangers passin' wid ivery mile, -- hark to th 'men singin'!. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
"No, but just hark! what a confounded row and jabber those fellows keep up.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Many of the other "new" home-birthing trends hark back to ancient times, too. From Wordnik.com. [Have It Your Way: Redesigning Birth] Reference
On TV, promos hark back to moments of Sino-American amity during World War II. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond History's Shadow] Reference
I am sure I heard them! it was music! melody! enchantment -- hark! hark! again. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
And hark! terrible to the ear, here is the minute but intense hum of a mosquito. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
But I've love, thank Heaven! and mercy, too; 'tis for justice only I bid you hark. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
But hark; there is a family dialogue going on between farmer A, his wife, and son. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
And he will put his fore paws up on the wall, and wait a moment to hark for the dog. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
His movies hark back to the 19th century in their outlook and the values they espouse. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Ford’s Mr. Lincoln] Reference
One more look into the night, and then -- hark! what is it? how beautiful, how charming!. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
It was natural that now Miss Pritchard's mind should hark back to those former suspicions. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
I hear him! again, and again! repeat the blow! hark, hark, it breaks, it shivers! and see. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
But hark! her voice came in and joined the harpsichord -- surely this time he was not mistaken?. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
In our day when only billions seem to count we may well hark back to the days of simpler things. From Wordnik.com. [The Kirk on Rutgers Farm] Reference
"Take her in hand at once, and hark ye, mother, heed that she has no injury through thee, or ----". From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
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