Usage of "strain ear"

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Uso de strain ear em inglês

The boy sat up and listened with breath caught and straining ears. 
 Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure 

She stood motionless in the door-way, with straining eyes, with straining ears. 
 No Name 

With straining ears, Folsom listened, hope and fear alternating in his breast. 
 Warrior Gap: A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. 

There was nothing to do but wait, and wait with straining ears. 
 The Princess Elopes 

Remain there leaning against a wing, with straining ear and beating heart? 
 The Nabob 

He extinguished the match and stood in the darkness listening with straining ears. 
 The City of Fire 

Only the buzz and snap of the ever-increasing static greeted his straining ears. 
 Curlie Carson Listens In 

At last the straining ears of the watchers were attracted by strange sounds. 
 Sunset Pass; or, Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land 

But as the two listened with straining ears the sounds became more dim. 
 Dan Merrithew 

The lads ceased their talking instantly and listened with straining ears. 
 The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks; Or, The Secret of Ruby Mounta... 

For on his straining ears fell the sound of a door slammed shut. 
 Stories from Everybody's Magazine 

He stepped out of the vault, and listened with strained ears. 
 The Mansion of Mystery / Being a Certain Case of Importance, Tak... 

Hiding behind the oak, with straining ear and throbbing heart, she eagerly listened. 
 The Song of the Cardinal 

Even to my own straining ears I made no perceptible sound. 
 The House of the Whispering Pines 

We listened with straining ears, hoping it would not be repeated. 
 Swiss Family Robinson 

With straining ears I listened, as I rode on towards her. 
 An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of t... 

Significados de strain ear em inglês