Listen; used mostly in the imperative.
1 It still has soft, silty soils that harken back to that time.
2 And though they harken to the past, they also hint at the future.
3 The gods harken not unto the lamentations and sacrifices of men.
4 Dick, harken to these glad words: Rojas is in the hospital.
5 Most modern preachers do not follow a Voice-theyonly harken to an echo.
6 Don't you be speaking again, for there's no sense in that; but harken !
7 By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us!
8 Telemachus should harken to your word and go with you.
9 But, even as he prayed, he knew that Psamathe would not harken to him.
10 But just harken : Have you made him any foolish promise?
11 So, if you wish, strike at the first who harken to the words of Siddhartha.
12 They will harken to me, because they need me.
13 These people also believe that there are bad spirits to which we must not harken .
14 But he would not harken , whereby I foresee trouble.
15 Why, 'lean and harken after it' as Donne says-
16 And now you shall hear how it befell Sir Tristram thereafter; so harken to what followeth.
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