19 collocations for hearkens

XII If, in the woes of Actual Human Life If thou could'st see the serpent strife Which the Greek Art has made divine in stone Could'st see the writhing limbs, the livid cheek, Note every pang, and hearken every shriek Of some despairing lost Laocoon, The human nature would thyself subdue To share the human woe before thine eye Thy cheek would pale, and all thy soul be true To Man's great Sympathy.

"Whether it be right," said Peter and John to the great men and judges of the Jews, "to hearken to God more than to you, judge ye.

Dan lifted the blanket, hearkened a moment, then"pst!" another bit of iron fell into the pail.

Now, if I can hearken out some wealthy marriage for her, I have my only desire.

See, they hearken not! MEDEA.

He hearkened to the cries and the tidings, the plaints and the burdens, raised by those villeins whose granges and bields were pillaged for the sustenance of his foes.

In this work of daily recitation of the Office, we are ambassadors, not of some petty king or tiny state, but we represent the entire Church, the well-beloved spouse of Christ, to whose prayer He ever hearkens.

So lovely and so strange a thing Each is to each to look upon, They dare not hearken a bird sing, Or from the other one Take eyeslest they be gone.

So chanted the Parcae; The banish'd one hearkens The song, the hoar captive Immur'd in his dungeon, His children's doom ponders, And boweth his head.

When your Superiours talk to any Body hearken not neither Speak nor Laugh Chapter vii.

For she has pious features; while downstairs Two 'medicals'both 'decent' lads enough Hearkened the story out like gentlemen, And said the right thingalmost looked it too!

"Hearken thou to my words," said he, "and grave them upon thy heart.

But Fra Paolo, overhearing, said gently: "For this I came, to hearken all thy trouble, if perchance I might give thee rest.

One little burn of my acquaintance, which runs through field and dell to join the Till, I have hearkened to again and again for hours, unable to break away from the spell of its ever-varying, yet constant musica sort of wilder, sweeter version of Mendelssohn's Duetto, with the voices of Knight and Lady alternating and intermingling amidst a rippling current of clear bell-like undertones.

It is the issue of a long travail of soul to whose words we hearken in such a truth as this: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

For, Lady, thou dost know I ne'er did tire Of thy sweet sacraments and ritual; In morning meadows I have knelt to thee, In noontide woodlands hearkened hushedly Thy heart's warm beat in sacred slumbering, And in the spaces of the night heard ring Thy voice in answer to the spheral lay: Now 'neath thy throne my suppliant life I fling Send me a maiden meet for love, I pray!

" Joyfully hearkened the youth to the willing maiden's decision, Doubtful whether he ought not at once to make honest confession.

Then, gentle ministers of all my hopes, That with your swords made way unto my wish, Hearken the fruits of your courageous fight.

He commanded these that they should hearken Lot as himself, and observe all his biddings.

19 collocations for  hearkens