Word: harking
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...draw the curtain on this heart-rending scene, and as we glide down the long, lonely hallway, let us softly apply our ear to the door of a neighboring room. Hark! Do you not hear it, - the convulsive sobbing of a woman in distress? Patter, patter, patter, the tears go as they fall - upon what? Surely it can be nothing else, - upon a stiffly starched shirt-bosom, while the poor girl cries as if her heart would break. Ah, yes, dear reader, do not pretend to conceal your tears, it is no other than the unhappy "co-ed," with whom...
...Hark! I hear a voice...
...Hark! with tones of sombre meaning...
...snarled, as I leapt after him, "Madelo-o-o-o-o-n;" and my gay gray comrades answered from the forest, "O-o-o-o-n," as they sprang out from the dark shadows; he tried to draw his knife, but my sharp teeth met in his arm. Hark! A short yelping bark, a snapping of bright teeth, and a grinding sound, and there is nothing but a dark red stain on the fair white snow. Hu-u-u-u! how we sped along under the bright, cruel stars, to the merry, long-drawn notes, while the poor frightened peasant...
...Hark to my yarn, though...