The Ostend oysters were brought in, tiny and plump like little ears enclosed in shells, and melting between the tongue and the palate like salt bon-bons.
Their quick ears caught the sound of an approaching footstep.
He struggled with the power of desperation, for an instant; and then sent up cry upon cry that penetrated even those massive walls, and rang in their ears until they reached the open yard.
Tisbina, accompanied by a servant, went to Prasildo, who could scarcely believe his ears when he heard that she was at the door requesting to speak with him.
His sight failed; his ears tinkled; his frightened horse turned about to fly; and he was falling from the saddle, when the very action of falling jerked his head upwards, and with the jerk he regained his recollection.
The great work of this interesting and accomplished person, the Orlando Innamorato, is an epic romance, founded on the love of the great Paladin for the peerless beauty Angelica, whose name has enamoured the ears of posterity.
Said he, "The voice of Dietrich sounds in my ears amain; I fear our eager champions some friend of his have slain.
But just before, the tidings had to their ears been brought.
Loki replied that that suited him well, and that the condition should be held good, since he would bring it to the ears of them who might get possession of it.
Ne'er to such welcome tidings did they their ears incline.
He jerked back from the keyboard, his hair on end, his teeth, on edge, his ears screaming with the mass of sounds he had produced.
He clapped his hands over his earsand leaped wildly from the piano bench.
Silver Ears dived down into the boot toe and pulled out the hidden candies.
Silver Ears left little Squealer to cry himself to sleep while she stood on tiptoe before the old cracked looking-glass and tied a pink ribbon in a bow under her chin.
When Mother Graymouse returned, Silver Ears had the shopping bag neatly mended and there was plenty of thread upon their spool.
Next day, Silver Ears discovered that all three of the holes into the play-room had been stuffed with yellow soap.
Limpy-toes and Buster were to take turns carrying it, while Silver Ears helped her mother with Squealer.
Silver Ears sat down and scratched her head thoughtfully.
Then bidding Silver Ears rock Squealer to sleep, she hastened down to tell Grand-daddy Whiskers her trouble.
Silver Earshad brought some squares of patch-work to sew.
Silver Ears took his fur cap and cane, Limpy-toes hung up his great-coat, and the twins captured both his kindly paws and danced back to the chimney corner with him.
When Mother Graymouse, with Squealer and the twins, returned from making Granny Whiskers an afternoon call, she found Silver Ears and Buster setting the tea-table.
I wonder--" Then he pushed Baby Squealer's high-chair over to the cupboard and climbed up until he could reach the shelf where Silver Ears had put the Christmas candy.
By and by it will be summer, Mammy, and then we can all go out to hunt for food," added Silver Ears cheerfully.
I wonder if she would think I was Silver Ears and toss me some candy?
During the second summer one of his ears was torn and the slit never united.
At other times he has a most expectant look as he sits and watches, or listens, with head tilted on one side and sharp ears pointing slightly forward.
The penetrating squeaks of the wire reached the ears of several unseen antelope and appealed to their curiosity.
With the coyote the ears are more prominent, the back more swayed, and the tail droops at a very sharp angle, with the point turned a little upward.
He was about six inches long and in appearance much like a guinea pig; but with regulation rabbitears he might have passed for a young rabbit.
The ears rise just a trifle above this line; in front of the hips the back sags a trifle, while the tail is extended almost straight, with the point held slightly above the level of the back.
Lilian was a red blonde; her rich chestnut hair fell over her ears like wings, and she was showily dressed in an expensive French gown which did not suit her, which made her seem older than she was.
A step was heard on the stairs; her quick ears caught the sound, and she rushed to the door to lock it.
It did not see the bread, and pricking up its earsit trotted away.
The little animal wiggled itsears as if it understood.
All at once reports of other rifles, apparently fired close at hand, reached the ears of the swimmers.
A rifle shot echoed through the canyons, but, though ears were strained to catch the sound, no second shot was heard.
Suddenly a new sound smote theears of the Overland Riders, a familiar sound that they had heard many times in France and on their journeys in their own land.
The frost rendered it impossible to form the snow into balls, but the men made up for this by throwing it about each other's eyes and ears in handfuls.
Ere any one could reply, their ears were saluted by the well-known bark of a pack of Esquimau dogs.
In fact, he became so incensed, that he set his basket down and slapped his ears vigorously for some minutes before resuming his slow progress.
A woollen cap came down over his ears and a pair of skates dangled from his arm.
I'll bet my ears you'd like to have your ma take her in right here.
For half an hour the party discussed plans with Anderson Crow, speaking in low, mysterious tones that rang in the marshal's ears to his dying day.
The snow creaked resoundingly under his heels and the chill wind nipped his muffless ears with a spitefulness that annoyed.
Her ears rang with the horrors of their lewdness, her eyes came to see but little, for she kept them closed for the very pain of what they were likely to witness.
Hour after hour passed, and with every minute therein, Rosalie's ears strained themselves to catch the first sound of approaching rescuers.
They sat upon the ground for several minutes, he thinking deeply, she listening with her pretty ears intent.
The moans died away into choking sobs, and Bonner's ears could hear nothing else.
The lovers strained their ears to listen, but no sound reached them.
They waited in silence, their ears strained, but neither uttered a word.
Everything was peaceful, and not a sound disturbed the Sabbath-like stillness of the scene, when there suddenly broke on his ears the shrill war-cry, which was taken up by village after village till the whole valley resounded with it.
This reached the ears of the great man of the valley, a magic doctor, who, there being no king over the people, is treated with the highest respect and honor by them.
All restraint was thrown off, and this noble man poured into the astonished ears of Stanley all he had thought, prayed for, endured and suffered for the last long five years.
In addition to other bad symptoms, the hemorrhage from the ears continued, and this, though it prevented the immediate formation of a large clot in the brain, menaced life by loss of strength.
Dorothy, whose quick ears had caught what he had said.
The attention of everyone was riveted upon the speakers, while Dorothy leaned forward in her chair, her earnest eyes glancing from one face to the other, her eager ears drinking in their every word.
This obstinacy exasperated us and we felt it to be our religious duty, for the honor of our divine Queen, to perpetrate such cruelties upon them as would shock your gentle ears to hear.
What would you say," I asked my guide, "if I were to demand that you should produce Jesus and prove him to my eyes and ears as you have asked me to produce and prove Apollo?
Back he ran, but the fairies and their Queen put their fingers in their ears and ran away, so they could not hear.
In the first place, their ears are so short they never heard quickly like some others of that family, and then those tails--why they can be seen for yards and yards.
For a moment the delicate colouring of her face, the grace of her form, and the brown hair, drooping over her ears and clustering in little curls about her neck, seemed to hint at a language which he had not yet learned; but she spoke again.
I could scarcely believe my own ears when she mumbled out something about Mrs. Murry thinking she could do very much better for herself; but I asked her one question after another till I had it all out of her.
The ears are daintily curled, a pearl hanging from either lobe would show yellow.
We both speak Italian now, and his love, told in that voluptuous tongue, so admirably adapted to the expression of passion, sounded in my ears like the most exquisite poetry.
He intended to keep his ears open as well in an effort to learn how they happened to know that Martin lived up river.
Martin stood there beneath the trees, every nerve alert, and his ears strained so as not to miss one note of that voice which had been silent to him for years.
Martin sat very still with his head bent low, but with ears keenly alert to Nance's heavy breathing.
He determined, nevertheless, to keep his eyes and ears open and try to find out what he could.
He had not heard it at first, but now it fell upon his ears with a startling intensity.
Trees lining the bank draped the shore in deep shadows, and here Martin crouched, listening with straining ears for whatever sounds might come from the building above.
When tied up, and the gang-planks run out a great scramble took place, while the hum of voices fell strangely upon the ears of the two silent ones over the river.
When I mounted the pulpit to preach, the people strained their ears so as not to lose a single word, and no one ever went to sleep when I was speaking.
So Pirka went through the dining-room and stopped to listen at the iron door and find out what was going on in the tower; and Michal, meanwhile, sang that evening hymn which had reached the ears of the headsman and his son.
Well for her that she had had sense enough to shut her ears against the tempter.
Then, shutting his ears against all good advice, he had invaded Poland, and his first attack was crowned with success, for Cracow fell into his hands.
The wind wafted to their ears the sound of the evening Ave Maria, and a very comfortable sound it is to him who sits snugly by his own fireside.
When my lady got down, Miss Lally and I strained our ears to hear.
Once a day, this mother heard the account of the murder of her son; and, each day this account became more horrifying, more replete with detail, and was shouted into her ears with greater cruelty and uproar.
It seemed to her that she had just come downstairs from her visit to Laurent, so full were her earsof the words she had recently heard.
He had acquired the gentle penetrating voice of an actor which he employed to flatter the ears and heart of the good old lady.
Little by little her ears became polluted with an account of the filth and crimes of those whom she had called her children.
The impossibility of crying out and stopping her ears caused her inexpressible torture.
Large pearls hung in her ears and from her girdle.
It seemed as though the opaque walls about him held in the sound as heavy curtains might in a large room; it fell dead on his ownears without any of the reverberant power that sound has in traveling across water.
Rowing hard all the time, with frequent short pauses, he strained his ears for the welcome sound.
Sometimes he thought he caught a faint, mellow call; but he soon recognized that these were deceptions, produced in his ears by the memory of what he had heard before.
His ears almost immediately detected water noises running close by, and he could feel the pull of stout oak timber that formed the inner wall of where he lay.
She was suddenly filled with inexpressible distaste for this man who had in days past smothered her with caresses and dinned into her ears speeches concerning a passion that he called love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
