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Though did change my opinion slightly when the Moff said in the Confidential afterwards that he wanted to heark back to the original Dr Who and the Dalek movies.
Planet-x.com.au » celievamp: Dr Who: Victory of the Daleks 2010
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I even heark back to her response when asked if she though he was a Muslim ....
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But these storylines either heark back to past and probably outdated metaphors to explain the present, or depend on the idea that there are no other variables in play.
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_ Well, let's favour our apprehensions 230 with forbearing that a little; for, if my heart were not hoopt with adamant, the conceipt of this would have burst it: but heark thee.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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But I wud lat you ca 'me a' the ill names in the dictionar to get ye to heark to me!
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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If ye want any thrifle, heark ye, there's poor old Jack Costigan has got a guinea or two in his pocket -- and, be heavens! you shall never want,
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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To pull an arrow out of the body; to exercise and strike with a clubbe, a buckler to theire feete, and take it if neede requireth, and defende himselfe, if neede requirs, from the ennemy; being in sentery to heark the ennemy that comes neere, and to heare the better lay him downe on the side.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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Alehouse, and there we plaid at shovel-board half the day; all the time that it rained we were there, and as merry as they that fish'd, and I am glad we are now with a dry house over our heads, for heark how it rains and blows.
The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638
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There we shall know no diffrence: heark _Achillas_,
The False One Francis Beaumont 1600
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But heark you in your ear: the Friar's a knave; but God forgive me, a man cannot tell neither; s'foot, I am so out of patience, I know not what to say.
The Merry Devil 1590
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