"'Yes,' said Balty Mahu, 'he has always been a scoffer of our religion.' As soon as these words reached my ears, with the quickness of thought I snatched a cimeter from the hands of one of the guards, and plunged it in his breast.

At this, Pepper gave out a deep growl; then stopped, and pricked up his ears.

If their heads are said to grow beneath their shoulders, still we will turn a credent ear.

Or my Lady Betty, having taken the waters in the pump-room and lent her ear to such gossip as is abroad so early, is now handed to her chair and goes round by Gregory's to read a bit.

" "A homestead at Cherry Corners!" gasped Billie, unable to believe her ears while Chet looked interested.

Then a soft, rhythmic sound like a giant breathing in his sleep caught the old hunter's keen ear.

"And old Ally boxed Mouler's ears when they made me upset that paint," added Mugford.

Again he lifted his hand, and they strained their ears.

or because there are not voices and sounds enough to fill your ears?

"I was obliged to go to church, but I was determined not to listen, and oftentimes when the preacher gave out the text I have stopped my ears and shut my eyes that I might neither see nor hear.

I heard them come into the room, the man speaking in a tone so low that the words were indistinguishable from where I stood; and then the sound of the door being shut struck my ear unpleasantly.

" Ulysses gave good ear to his words, and as he ate his meat, he even tore it and rent it with his teeth, for mere vexation that his fat cattle should be slain to glut the appetites of those godless suitors.

The various sounds and sights, that met the ear and eye, in rapid succession, still farther worked on his feelings, and heightened his raptures.

Unfortunately they spoilt the fair reprisal by cutting off his ear.

Towards evening, we saw numbers of little grey wood rabbits, hopping around among the dense undergrowth on the ridge where our tents were situated, squatting themselves down and cocking up their long ears, as they paused occasionally to examine the strange visitors who had come among them.

And never has it been known that He has shut His ear to those who called upon Him, or forgotten one who is His.

Just heaven forbids their words should blot the honor of my name, For pure and faithful is my heart, howe'er my foes defame; And Zaida, lovely Zaida, at a word that did me wrong, Would close her ears in scornful ire and curse the slanderous tongue.

she soliloquized, as she pulled Noisette's silky ears.

Jo,bend your ear down closer,I thought once I knew such a man,and,dear,I loved him.

Then Ulysses being seated at a table next the king and queen, in all men's view; after they had feasted, Alcinous ordered Demodocus, the court-singer, to be called to sing some song of the deeds of heroes, to charm the ear of his guest.

Moreover, his other nephew, Giuliano della Rovere, afterward Pope Julius II, a bitter enemy to Girolamo, and Lorenzo's warm friend, had, during the disgrace of his cousin, gained the Pope's ear and told him some plain but wholesome truths regarding the unpleasant consequences of a permanent rupture with Lorenzo.

Indeed, that was what those thought who saw him there, for suddenly a dog-sledge came round the corner of the hill and a loud halloo greeted his ears.

" He was beside her at two bounds, feeling of the limp wrists, laying his ear to the grenadine bosom, lifting the reluctant lids, touching the flesh that yielded so to touch.

In the meantime, I sat still, and kept my ears open.

" The heavy brass knocker again reverberated on the thick oak door, and Inspector Seldon placed his ear against the keyhole to ascertain if any sound was to be heard.