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Examples
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Heark ye, Lewis, my misanthropy increases every day — The longer I live, I find the folly and the fraud of mankind grow more and more intolerable — I wish I had not come from
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Heark ye, Clinker, you are either an hypocritical knave, or a wrong-headed enthusiast; and in either case, unfit for my service.
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Heark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender — You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want — But, as it does not belong to me to punish criminals, I will only take upon me the task of giving you a word of advice.
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Heark, you unsanctified fool, while I set out our story.
Songs from Books Rudyard Kipling 1900
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_ Heark ye -- leave me not to her mercy, by Love, if you do, I'll follow you to your Chamber.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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Heark - en not to the winds for Tur-lathon's echoing fliield.
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AS a Wolfe and a Lyon were abroad upon Adventure toge - ther, Heark, (fays the Wolfe) Don't you hear the Bleat - ing of Sheep?
Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692
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‘If stated fairly (said he, raising his voice) the question is, whether I have spirit to shake off an intolerable yoke, by one effort of resolution, or meanness enough to do an act of cruelty and injustice, to gratify the rancour of a capricious woman — Heark ye, Mrs Tabitha Bramble, I will now propose an alternative in my turn.
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_] Heark, sweet heart, here's a bar set to your valour!
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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"Heark ye, my Tritons, you are called here to shave, duck, and physic all as needs, but I command you to be gentle.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820
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