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Definition of Harkening
1. harken [v] - See also: harken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harkening
Literary usage of Harkening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federalist, on the New Constitution by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1857)
"... recommended by the latter, rather than in harkening to those who could neither
deny the necessity of a speedy remedy, nor agree in proposing one ? ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... which heere in London is hard and costly, diet would be more easy, and so
ether by preaching they might put forth themselves, or by harkening how they ..."
3. Publications by Mississippi Historical Society (1916)
"harkening to complaints of-the demoralizing effects of "free rations" Gen.
OO Howard addressed the following communication to the Secretary of War: WAR ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... and went without light towards the innkeeper's, and encountered on the way
the officer of the holy brotherhood, who stood harkening what did become of ..."
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