She lets the hydrant water run: He hearkens Father Sebastian cooking and spreading homely themes over an inept-looking clavier confounding the wits of his children and all men's children down to the last generation.
The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: --let such a one be dismissed!
The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: --let such a one be retained in command!
For Nature listens in the rose And hearkens in the berry's bell To help her friends, to plague her foes, And like wise God she judges well.
I am ruined; and if my queen, my Gulnare, hearkens to this advice, and leaves me, I shall surely die.
Thou hast said that the savage never hearkens to the cry of mercy," resumed Content; "here is living evidence that thou hast spoken in error.
The turbaned warrior, already introduced in these pages, occupied the centre of the group, in the calm and dignified attitude of an Indian who hearkens to or who utters advice.
And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home.
Happy is the man, who with his ears and heart proves obedient to it, and hearkens to that heavenly wisdom which "utters her voice in the streets.
This eternal Word is continually speaking in man, though his perverse heart, deluded by the devil, neither hearkens nor attends to it.
And yet she cometh, with her exquisite neck Beaten by tresses garlanded with pearls, And the golden youth who loves her with sad cheer Hearkens approaching nigh his trembling heart, Following her silent step, a host of wings!
But again he hearkens and hearkens, and when none may hear his thought He saith in the silent night-tide: Shall my brother bring me to nought?
So Gunnar hearkens and hearkens, and he saith, It is idle and worse: If the oath of my brother be broken, let the earth then see to the curse!
It bears the song of the skylark down, And it hears the singing of the town; And youth on the highways And lovers in byways Follows and sees: And hearkens the song of the leas And sings the songs of the highways.
Near by the sounding chimney The youth apart Hearkens with changing colour And leaping heart, And hears in the coil of the tempest The voice of love and death.
For Nature listens in the rose, And hearkens in the berry's bell, To help her friends, to plague her foes, And like wise God she judges well.
All day, he wanders on the shore, And hearkens to the swishing foam.
So, ever restless, to and fro, In every sort of weather, The blind lad wanders on the shore, And hearkens to the foam.
Cliges, who hears and hearkens to this, sat on Morel, and had armour blacker than a ripe mulberry: his whole armour was black.
Abram here gets his name changed to Abraham, and the Lord unfolds to him the future greatness and number of his seed, while Abraham hearkens in the unquestioning silence of faith.
The leaven is put forth out of every corner of his heart, he hearkens to Abimelech's reproof and profits by it; it was God's instrument by which He brought out the matter, and delivered the soul of his servant from the power of evil.
As for the fool whohearkens not, he accomplishes nothing.
Profitable is hearkening for a son that hearkens .
Where "they that fear the Lord speak often one to another, while the Lord hearkens and hears," the man of God may expect to find what will gladden his soul.
The wise man hearkens to the king's command, By reason of the oath to God.
The general that hearkensto my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command!
The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat:--let such a one be dismissed!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hearkens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
