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1 Somewhere here, someplace not right now, I can hear a child crying.
2 Then he would hear a child cry, far off in the distance.
3 The idea that there is any God that hates to hear a child laugh!
4 I never believed I would hear a child cough, and hate it so much.
5 It fascinates me to hear a child 's logic.
6 As he entered the cramped hallway he could hear a child 's faint crying from somewhere within.
7 In the silent pause, Leslie could hear a child wailing frantically somewhere off in the distance.
8 Yet from somewhere-somewheredistant-hethought he could barely hear a child 's voice, his sister's voice, calling out to him.
9 You hear a child reprimanded about a point of dress, or some trivial thing, as if it had committed a treachery.
10 I don't want to hear the New Testament: I would rather hear a child 's story-somethingthat did not want thinking about.
11 I thought when my little Dorothy died I could never bear to hear a child 's voice again, knowing that hers was still.
12 Let me tell ye suthin'-someday yew folks'll hear a child o' Lavinny's a-callin 'it sfather'sname on the top o' Sentinel Hill!
13 At isolated Eel Marsh House, a solicitor wakes to hear a child 's screams and the rhythmic creak of a rocking-chair in an empty room.
14 Moving on, she heard a child whimpering but could not find it.
15 What of the 'left ladies,' as I heard a child describe spinsters?
16 I don't think I've ever heard a child sing so well.'
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