[B] Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough Within thy hearing, or thy head be now Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den; O miserable Chieftain!

" This preposterous being was preposterously sentimental over a pair of ponies and an earless donkey.

Perhaps they would now hear her, and she raised her voice, and called her father's name, and again and again, with all her force, through the black, blank, earless night, she sent her cry.

And there is no doubt that one of these is as much above an earless seal as fifty years of Europe are better than a cycle of Cathay.