How To Use hearken In A Sentence
- And when I had been asleep scarce six hours, I waked again very sudden, as I had done before, and had belief that something did be anigh unto me; and I gript the Diskos, and did hearken; yet was there no sound that mine ears did wot of; neither aught that had power to be surely known of the spirit. The Night Land
- The Torah tells us listen, hear, and hearken on whichever level you are able.
- And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
- Your first example hearkens back to the idea of quickening — the point at which a woman “feels” a child inside — hardly at the moment of fertilziation, indeed, often not until week 20 or even later depending on how the placenta is situated. Quote
- Barry redressed the building, added tower elements and slathered the whole thing with a thick icing of period detail, and voila: The earls of Carnarvon had a house that suggested a long pedigree and hearkened back to the fantasy days of Good Queen Bess. A Victorian fantasy, in stone
- Conquering the great monster with patience, courage, skill and intellect hearkens back to their ancient mythology, providing a link to the past and a way for the future.
- People are dying, mainly Muggles, but also Mudbloods, and any whose bloodline is tainted with that of the non-magical, leading to a growing world that hearkens back to the time of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany, as well as echoing the doom and hopelessness of 1984. 2010 March 01 « The BookBanter Blog
- Taylor's funk-influenced style hearkens back to the days when Motown was pounding out hit after soulful hit, without relying on sentimentalism or retro-chic.
- Does it need drastic action by the association of international air lines, in order for those responsible for our fuel management to hearken to the wake up call?
- In contrasting their ritual presence to the differance of purposive endeavor, Wordsworth seems to hearken back to an anecdote in Boswell's Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
