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Example sentences for "harked"

Lexicographically close words:
haricot; haricots; harina; hark; harke; harken; harkened; harkening; harking; harks
  1. Some of them were laughing and listening to the goblin music that still followed; others harked fearfully through the night, trying to catch the hoof beats of caballeros whose last echoes from those stones had died away a century ago.

  2. Her memory harked back to what had preceded the crisis.

  3. While I was improvising an apron out of a towel, and Anne was pinning a sheet into a kimono, so she could take off her dinner gown and still be proper, Dallas harked back to the robbery.

  4. With that fatal vacillation which characterized his whole life, Nicholas II had no sooner issued his Manifesto than he surrendered once more to the evil forces by which he was surrounded and harked back to the old ways.

  5. It might then have harked back to the foregoing chat between her and her mother, or omitted it altogether.

  6. The reference to Maisie was the merest chat by the way; and the conversation, at this mention of the ice, harked back to Sapps Court.

  7. Babylonia had maintained peace for fifteen years, but the people clung to the traditions of their early history, and harked back to a time when Babylon was the greatest city of the world.

  8. Too distraught for argument, he harked back to the personal issue.

  9. Mr. Banner attempted a weak grin and harked back again to familiarity.

  10. Getting no answer, he considered for a while, and harked back.

  11. The answer was that I sought the awful, the appalling and terrible because they harked me back to a primitive day where my blood and bones were bequeathed their heritage of the elements.

  12. It harked back to pioneer days when men were men.

  13. The talk with Canim had excited her, and down all the twisted slant of the divide she harked back to the mocking fantasies of her dreams.

  14. Koskoosh placed another stick on the fire and harked back deeper into the past.

  15. If we do not grasp the significance of this unseen but gigantic National German faith, as expressed in the increasing unity of will of the whole people, harked on by Prussia, we might as well close the book on Bismarck--and know him not.

  16. His whole programme seemed to the masses to be anti-Christ in conception, that is to say, it harked back to political paganism.

  17. They simply harked back for some eleven or twelve centuries in their own history and resuscitated the administrative machinery that had first been installed in Japan by the genius of Fujiwara Kamatari and his coadjutors in 645 A.

  18. If I thought--" he harked back, and for the third time broke off.

  19. He harked back to it several times in the course of his perusal, and confessed to himself that it looked very well.

  20. At Springfield, too, he harked back to the Revolution and to the beginnings of the great struggle for control of domestic concerns.

  21. Miles harked to the tune till it went crying itself through his head.

  22. He went and sat down alone on the woodpile, where he harked to the distant frogs that were piping, and watched the stars come out over the sea.

  23. Her brain harked back in lightning flashes over the events of the preceding night.

  24. Barbara harked back to what for her was the practical.

  25. Once he harked back to the dust flower, saying that as its humble and heavenly bloom brightened the spots bereft of beauty so she cheered the lonely and comfortless places in his heart.

  26. Her mind harked back on all this as he himself, the same but changed, stood there in the moonlight striving to recollect it all, and mysteriously failing.

  27. He gave it up, and harked back quite suddenly to congenial personalities.

  28. Marjorie's mind had harked back to the memory of the cloud that had once shadowed hers and Mary Raymond's friendship.

  29. Her mind harked back to her first days at Sanford High School.

  30. And I went then to the opening of the little cave, and put forth my head, and lookt well about, and harked a long while; but there stirred nothing in the night thereabout; neither did my spirit wot of any matter for trouble unto us.

  31. And oft I harked into the night of the Land; but there was nowhere any sound, or disturbing of the aether, to trouble me.

  32. I harked unto the howling of the Humpt Men, the sound did grow more faint and far off; for the Maid worked very desperate with the pole.

  33. I knew then that I harked unto little echoings, that did be caught by the near rocks, and to come from some far and mighty sound.

  34. And this was a thought of sweet comfort upon which to slumber; the which I did; but my spirit lay wakeful within my breast, and did listen through the night; and harked for all evil matters and things that did make to come anigh.

  35. And I pondered a moment, whether that I send my voice over the Valley, to question what they did be; but yet had caution, and harked through the utter silence of the night; for I had no surety of aught.

  36. And I leaned up upon mine elbow in the bush, and harked very quiet, perchance some noise had shaken my sleep from me.

  37. And I wiped her face then, and harked to her dear heart; and surely it did beat, very slow and husht.

  38. And after I had harked a while, and perceived that there was no evil thing anigh, I went outward of the stones.

  39. Finding, however, that she did no damage, yet harked back to the parsley again and again, he set her down for an unusually intelligent child, who somehow knew good gardening when she saw it.

  40. Petition; and the two harked back together upon a question you put to me just now.

  41. Inasmuch as the most favorable point of espial upon the camp below was the cliff whence we had first looked down into the sink, we harked back thither, passing around the lower end of the valley and along the barrier ridge.

  42. By and by he harked back to the matter of his errand, making some apology for his coming to me as the baronet's second.

  43. I harked for his footsteps in vain; afar His bark sailed over the Sunrise-sea.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.