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Example sentences for "harks"

Lexicographically close words:
harked; harken; harkened; harkening; harking; harled; harlequin; harlequinade; harlequins; harlot
  1. It therefore harks back to the Gallic, and to the Middle Ages.

  2. It evidently harks back to the Anglo-Saxon "hoo" for its derivation.

  3. In the past, which this school of motor culture harks back to, work, for which our degenerate age lacks even respect, was indeed praise.

  4. The child comes from and harks back to a remoter past; the adolescent is neo-atavistic, and in him the later acquisitions of the race slowly become prepotent.

  5. The lyric phase yields to the former heroic fantasy and then returns in soothing solace into a prevailing motive that harks back to the second of the beginning movement.

  6. The Scherzo is a sparkling chain of dancing tunes of which the third, of more intimate hue, somehow harks back to the second theme of the first movement.

  7. Music: Adagio (Muted strings answered by horn and harp)] It all harks back to the gentler strains of the first movement.

  8. An expressive line rising in the clarinet harks back to one of the later strains of the funeral march.

  9. After a pause recurs the phrase that harks from mediaeval romance, now in a stirring ascent of close chasing voices.

  10. The Swayamvara, or Self Choice, harks back to the time when the Indian princess might herself choose among her suitors.

  11. The average Southerner sighs for the good old household slaves, and harks back to the colored mammy in the kitchen and stately butler in the drawing-room in slavery times, as evidence that the Negroes are going backward.

  12. The utterance harks back to the golden age; the gesture is trumped up by the passion of the hour, or dictated by the master of the hula, to whom the real meaning of the old bards is ofttimes a sealed casket.

  13. Indeed the first-named distinctly harks back to that transcendental mystic of the seventeenth century, Henry Vaughan.

  14. Bernard harks back to a line of moral crooks, kept out of jail by legal see-saw.

  15. Perch harks back to the Latin perca, and the Romans had it from the Greeks, among whom it meant spotted.

  16. Tortoise harks back to the Latin tortus, meaning twisted (hence our word tortuous) and came to be applied to these slow creatures because of their twisted legs.

  17. It is a system typical of the East and its slipshod, rough-and-ready dealings: its great element of simplicity harks back to a life in tents, where red tape was unknown.

  18. We've given up keeping Noah's Harks since the School Boards come in.

  19. As soon as Porphyry has left him, Plotinos harks back to Amelius, on whose leaving he had written against the Gnostics.

  20. In this book Plotinos harks back to the first book he had written, i.

  21. His poems (published in the Cancionero of Baena) mark the beginning of an allegorizing tendency in Castilian literature which harks back to Dante.

  22. Neo" means new, and all New Thought harks back to Plato, who was the mouthpiece of Socrates.

  23. That very modern cry of "equality of opportunity" harks back to Plato.

  24. Just why the human mind harks back and likes to confirm itself by building on another, it would be interesting to inquire.


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