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The illusion was so strong that, as he raised his hand to his ear, turning towards the Downfall, whence the sound seemed to come, he trembled from head to foot. 'David! Was it the call of some distant boy or shepherd? He could not tell, could not collect himself.

If you chance upon a mule so wild that you cannot handle him in this way, put a noose of the lariat in the mule's mouth, and let the eye, or the part where you put the end of the lariat through, be so as to form another noose. Set this directly at the root of the mule's ear, pull it tight on him, taking care to keep the noose in the same place.

Wherefore, he says, the Word ofttimes steadfastly contemplating the things which have been generated from Mind and Thought, that is from heaven and earth, says: "Hear, O heaven, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath said: I have generated sons and raised them up, but they have set me aside."

Because he has got the ear of the people: because he gives them threats and promises, which they believe come straight from God, not only about hell, purgatory, and paradise, but about Pisa and our Great Council. But let events go against him, so as to shake the people's faith, and the cause of his power will be the cause of his fall.

"He was near to the spot at the time; I saw him there," continued Lord Hartledon, speaking apparently to himself; whilst the flush, painfully red and dark, was increasing rather than diminishing. "I know you did," returned Pike. The tone grated on Lord Hartledon's ear.

He sung of all that she had been to him in his childhood, of the brightness she made in their home, of all that she had done for him, and concluded with the prayerful longing that his eyes might once more receive their sight, that so he might behold her. "The doctor is weeping," whispered the little girl in Tiny's ear.

Now I was wonderin' if he had that ole quick-firin' gun away back when he was riddlin' things along in the Argonne wouldn't it be a queer thing if true? He knew how to rattle that cantankerous bus to beat the band an' he did nick me in that silly o' ear o' mine that keeps on gettin' in the way every time I have a little spat with a sassy guy."

Peter had taken no heed of what the child was about when she stayed behind, but when she ran up to him in her new attire, his face broke into a grin, which grew broader still as he looked back and saw the small heap of clothes lying on the ground, until his mouth stretched almost from ear to ear; he said nothing, however.

"I saw the dauphin in London, count. I was a little child, but his scarred ankles and wrists and forehead are not easily forgotten." "The dauphin died in the Temple, Eagle." "My father and Philippe never believed that." "Your father and Philippe were very mad royalists." "And you have gone over to Bonaparte. They said that boy had all the traits of the Bourbons, even to the shaping of his ear."

He stood, listening, intently watching with alert eyes; the zwirr of myriads of little travelling feet caught his quick ear the moving mass was an immense colony of beaver. Thousands upon thousands of them.