"His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it."
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"Walls have tongues, and hedges ears."
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"You want to talk to someone; first open your ears."
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"Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears."
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"I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious."
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"It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears."
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"Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?"
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"Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth."
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"If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears."
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"An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near."
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"Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!"
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"Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears."
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"My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired."
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"You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear."
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"If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence."
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"Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence."
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"The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm."
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"I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death."
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"Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for."
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"From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why."
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