How To Use Hearken In A Sentence
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I found this number intriguing, my mind hearkening back to the events of 1968, a year filled with a lifetime's worth of personal transformations and a civilization's worth of crucibles.
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The apostle is not satisfied with assuring them that they are under no obligations to the flesh, to hearken to its suggestions, without reminding them where it will end if they do; and he uses the word "mortify" (put to death) as a kind of play upon the word "die" just before.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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… Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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I listen not to the country people telling it was experimented by a goose, which was put in and came out again with _life_ (though without feathers); but hearken seriously to those who judiciously impute the _subsidency_ of the earth in the interstice aforesaid to some underground hollowness made by that water in the passage thereof.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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So he wore through the remnant of the day howso he might, without going out-adoors again; and the carline came and spake with him; but whatever he asked her about the lady, she would not tell aught of any import, so he refrained him from that talk, and made a show of hearkening when she spake of other matters; as tales concerning the folk of the land, and the Fathers of the Thorn, and so forth.
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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The need for purgative violence in order to recreate the self hearkens back to the ‘fiery zeale’ of the universal conflagration.
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Well known for their anti-internationalist, anti-New Deal voting records, both subscribed to an anti-Communism that hearkened back to the xenophobic, antimodernist "100 Percent Americanism" of the 1920s.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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Observe, They did not hearken to Paul when he warned them of their danger, and yet if they will but acknowledge their folly, and repent of it, he will speak comfort and relief to them now that they are in danger, so compassionate is God to those that are in misery, though they bring themselves into it by their own incogitancy, nay, by their own wilfulness, and contempt of admonition.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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He answered, “Hearken to my answer; that I lie not aught: and may the high gallows and all things of grame have me, if I lie one word!”
The Story of the Volsungs
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Or so say a spate of ads, books and websites that hail the emergence of the retrosexual, whose attitude and style hearken back to the strong, silent type of the '50s and early '60s.
Archive 2010-05-23
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It raises questions of a claim to European leadership, perhaps in co-operation with Russia, that hearkens back to some Prussian ideas of the 19th century.
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Is this supposed to hearken back to once-cool cultural touchstones like "breakdance" or to associate with the totally uncool "Dance Dance Revolution" craze?
Archive 2007-01-01
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The music Hot 8 performed that day hearkened back to the social aid and pleasure clubs, said Pete, where a well-dressed band led a parade down the street, forming the “first line,” while onlookers joined them to form the “second line” with strutting, jumping and high-stepping underneath their decorated parasols as they blew whistles and waved feathered fans.
Archive 2010-08-01
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‘O brasier-light350 and joy of the sprite, let us hear thy lovely voice, whereby all that hearken are ravished with delight.’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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God had often declared that to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams, that sacrifice and offering he would not; the legal sacrifices had their virtue and value from the institution, and the reference they had to Christ the great propitiation; but otherwise, of themselves, it was impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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First is the sheer babydoll, which is a million miles from the smock-like tops which for so long were a mainstay of Second Life fashion, and hearkens back to the babydoll's roots as lingerie.
World of SL
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They passed the day in feasting and wine-drinking and diversion and delight till night-fall, when they supped and prayed the sundown prayers, and the night orisons; after which they sat conversing and carousing, and Nasir and Mansur fell to telling stories whilst Abdullah hearkened.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Lassie, ye seem to think naebody worth hearkenin til a word frae 'cep ae man, but I mean ye to hearken to me!
Heather and Snow
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The justifications hearken back to the era when women were not fully autonomous.
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The use of a veil outside or within the tabernacle is an old custom, hearkening to the Old Testament imagery of the sanctuary tent and the Temple.
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: "Concerning the Central Placement and Noble Design of Tabernacles..."
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It maitered little sae lang as they war lasses as hertless and toom-heidit as himsel, and ower weel used to sic havers; but a lassie like you, 'at never afore hearkent to siclike, she taks them a' for trowth, and the leein sough o 'him gars her trow there was never on earth sic a won'erfu cratur as her!
Heather and Snow
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But, that - I was not surprised at the initial Soviet response that is - sort of hearkens back to the Cold War days when they tried to deny at first that it happened and then try to cover it up.
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The thrall hearkened, and cried out aloft, and fled away anywhither where he might hope for shelter, crying out that a hard portion was his because of their strife and wild doings, and an ill day for him whereon he must be dragged to death from his sweet life and his swine-keeping.
The Story of the Volsungs
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Thereafter were more smiles and nods, accompanied by the ever recurrent "altro", the transfer of certain bills into the stout man's pocket, and Geoffrey Ravenslee sallied forth into the street, bound for Mulligan's, with the chattering Tony beside him and the gaily-painted barrow before him, receiving many friendly hints as to the pitfalls and intricacies of the peanut trade and hearkening with unflagging interest to the story of "lil Pietro" and the unbounded goodness of "da Signorina Hermione.
The Definite Object A Romance of New York
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At last, the Hebrews have hearkened unto that voice in the wilderness, that great prophet who came down off the mountain.
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Sir vnderstand you this of me (insooth) 832: The yongest daughter whom you hearken for,
The Taming of the Shrew (1623 First Folio Edition)
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The voice is pedantic and apostrophic - O reader, hearken to my tale - and imbued with a faux-archaism that suggests the curlicued Georgian efforts of young Robin Hyde.
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Wilson believes that this attitude hearkens back to the ‘old days’.
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They hearken back to the great Common Law judges of the past who with determination and assurance developed the Common Law from precedent to precedent.
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Hearken now whilst I give you notice, to the end that you may not, like infidels, be by your simplicity abused, that in his time he was a rare philosopher and the cheerfullest of a thousand.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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It's meant to hearken back to the seventies connotation: ‘cool’ or ‘phat’ to other generations.
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When he gets to closing arguments, he's going to want to hearken back to that because he doesn't this bug evidence, which comes at the very end, to cloud the picture.
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This would be treason to the Master, and be hearkening to the teachings of man rather than of God! Yet how many are there from whose lips the phrase confessional fidelity (Bekenntnisstreue,) is heard far oftener than fidelity to God's word (Bibeltreue)!
American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
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It hearkens back to a time not so long ago when journalists and illustrators seemed to have a lot more space.
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HERE let us linger at will and delightsomely hearken
The Watchman and Other Poems
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o 'faddling fictions as -- gestes of jongleurs, tales told by tramping troubadours, ballades of babbling braggarts, romances of roysterous rhymers, she (good gossip!) as I say, having hearkened to and perused the works of such-like pelting, paltry prosers and poets wherein sweep of sword and lunge o' lance is accompted of worthier repute than the penning of dainty distich and pretty poesies pleasingly passionate.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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They explain the widening gulf between their commentary and reality by hearkening back to the 1993 budget.
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Given the fact that most of this paraphernalia hearkens back to movies of yore, only a modern projection screen, like the ones in Vic's lecture theatres, seems out of place.
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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
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Talk famously steals the riff from Kraftwerk's Computer Love and hearkens in tone to the quirky off centre Whisper.
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Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Then he spake to Piraeus, his trusty companion: Piraeus, son of Clytius, thou that at other seasons hearkenest to me above all my company who went with me to Pylos, even now, I pray, lead this stranger home with thee, and give heed to treat him lovingly and with worship in thy house till I come.
Book XV
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There was uncertainty in his voice, though, and later Theresa hearkened to this.
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Barbara would hearken in awed fascination to that story of the man lost in the desert, whose eyes looked once upon fabulous wealth but who could never find it again.
The Windy Hill
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But first, a new diversion, hearkening back to days gone by when life was easier and there was no such thing as project management…
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These ecological anxieties hearken back through a tradition of tasty ‘people as food’ films to the wonderful Cold War anxiety films of the 1950s and '60s.
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His clothes were cheap and homely, "his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untuneable," nevertheless his fervid eloquence and energy soon made him "very much hearkened unto.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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Basically, the manufacturers are accusing the Government of not hearkening to their submissions, which they say would have done a lot to reduce their production costs.
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O powerful god, he cried, thou who holdest empire over the waves, deign to hearken to an unfortunate man!
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The Torah tells us listen, hear, and hearken on whichever level you are able.
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“We appeal to you, O readers of the sacred books, not to hearken to their contents with weariness and disdain for what seems to be their unpleasing method of narration” (“Deprecamur vos, O auditores sacrorum voluminum, non cum taedio vel fastidio ea quae leguntur, audire pro eo quod minus delectabilis eorum videtur esse narratio”); cp.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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The results are sculptural, hearkening back to the artist's beginnings in that three-dimensional medium.
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Light was growing on the dawn of the next day, and the colours of things could be seen, when Birdalone, who was holding this last watch of the night, stood still and hearkened, deeming that she could hear some noise that was neither the morning wind in the tree-boughs nor the going of the wild things anear them in the wood.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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One of the few prayers prescribed in the Bible includes “I have also given it [a tithe] to the Levite, the proselyte, to the orphan, and to the widow, according to the commandments You commanded me; I have not transgressed any of your commandments and I have not forgotten … I have hearkened to the voice of Hashem, my G-d, I have acted according to everything You commanded me.”
Performance Evaluations and Yom Kippur | Managing Greatness
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To desire kingship rather than servantship -- the Cockatrice's sin, or deaf Death rather than hearkening Life -- the Adder's sin, -- these are both possible to all the intelligences of the universe.
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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After dinner they would sit together on the veranda, watching the moon rise over the rim of that wonderful valley, listening to the tree-toads in noisy convention or hearkening to the "plunk" of a trout leaping in the river below.
The Long Chance
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That hearkens back to your early days, when you guys were cranking out music at a ridiculously prolific rate.
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Josiah, in which he advised him by messengers not to oppose him in his march against Carchemish, are said to have proceeded from the mouth of God; and that Josiah, not hearkening to them, was slain in the battle; as is to be read II Chronicles, 35. 21,
Leviathan
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I am currently creating a website for a congressman and I've found the graphic imagery of today's campaigns occurs within standards that hearken back to an ‘old time’ aesthetic.
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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
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Let us then, for a little, ungird the wilderness-armor and hearken to the music of the harps of God.
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You know, I think some people can relate to being the last picked, and I think, as you hearken back to those days on the playground scene here, you almost can feel the pain when you're in your 40s.
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'O my father,' replied Ali, 'how shall I do other than hearken to thee and do after thine enjoinder, seeing that I am bounden by the law of God to obey thee and give ear to thy word?'
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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'But what for hearken to the havers o' a dottled auld wife? 'he said to himself, pondering as he walked home.
Robert Falconer
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To him, perhaps, it has been given to listen to the voice of the ancient poet, heard as a far-off whisper; to breathe in forgotten gardens the perfume of long dead flowers; to contemplate the love of women whose beauty is all perished in the dust; to hearken to the sound of the harp and the sistra, to be the possessor of the riches of historical romance.
The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
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This song they carolled on such dulcet wise and so delightsomely that to the king, who beheld and hearkened to them with ravishment, it seemed as if all the hierarchies of the angels were lighted there to sing.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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It hearkens back to the days when it didn't seem to be such a waste of time to protest the general mess in which the world is mired.
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Their concert hearkens back to a day when bands actually put on shows, not just stumbled on stage, picked up their instruments and left 45 minutes later.
