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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

  • I even heark back to her response when asked if she though he was a Muslim ....

    Rove tells Obama how to win 2008

  • But these storylines either heark back to past and probably outdated metaphors to explain the present, or depend on the idea that there are no other variables in play.

    Economic Meltdown vs. Global Meltdown 2008

  • _ 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • There we shall know no diffrence: heark _Achillas_,

    The False One Francis Beaumont 1600

  • 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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