one-eared

• “Like a flash, he surveyed his whole future and saw himself going one-eared through life, and in the same dash, as though inspired, his thumbs flew to the man's eyes and pressed heavily on the balls.”

  CHAPTER 11

• “In the distance, beside a pasture fence, I saw one-eared Eddie Tokus run to Silas, telling him the news.”

  Simon & Schuster: Kings of Colorado

• “And I felt like Bongo, the one-eared rabbit in Matt Groening's Life in Hell cartoon, shut up and gagged in a detention room.”

  The Huffington Post: Steven Hill: Was Rahm Right About Progressives?

• “We had been turned away by a fat, corrupt policeman who pretended our papers weren't in order, but who was really taking instructions from a dead-eyed, one-eared gangmaster who sat next to him.”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “Cumming, a gift to the sometimes distant cameraman in her pink coat, was terrific on Rembrandt – a man with a self for every occasion – and Van Gogh, in whose final whorls of celestial blue she saw not the one-eared misery of the lunatic asylum, but light, hope and dignity.”

  The Guardian: Rewind TV: The Trip, Turn Back Time: The High Street, Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention, Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers, Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits

• “A few minutes later she was joined by Samantha, her sixteen-pound one-eyed, one-eared tabby cat.”

  Simon & Schuster: TRIAL BY FIRE

• “No one seemed to be interested in a scruffy one-eared cat with social difficulties.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat

• “In the next window, the middle one, stood a black, one-eared cat gazing out onto the street.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “In the tradition of such authors as Garrison Keillor and Fannie Flagg, she tells warm and funny stories -- about what happens when her Mama decides to train a taxidermist to cook, about teaching school with the help of the Titanic and a one-eared intellectual, about the challenge of gardening in Georgia, where 'vegetation does not know its place.”

  Honor thy Southern Moms w/ Books!

• “- LeftyBrown's Corner on the passing of their one-eared Boston Terrier, Baby.”

  Friday Blogaround

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