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Definition of Harking
1. hark [v] - See also: hark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harking
Literary usage of Harking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... this effort of a dog to speak is no indication of a savage temper. harking dog»
... harking ..."
2. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States of by United States, William Mark McKinney, Thomas H. Calvert, Edward Thompson Company (1917)
"... the forfeiture enue Law belong exclusively to the gov- erty. harking r.
Williard, (1900) 146 payment of the ..."
3. The Monograph Series edited by Russell Fenimore Whitehead (1915)
"THE ANDREW harking HOUSE AT NORTHVALE. NEW JERSEY. Rebuilt 1805 and 1838 JAN
DITMARS HOUSE AT FLATLAND NECK. BROOKLYN, NY Date about 1800 While this house ..."
4. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems by Alexander Hill Everett (1845)
"... harking. [Democratic Review, November, 1842.] THE Poem of which a translation
is here presented, exhibits one of the various lights under which the ..."
5. The Note Book of an American Parson in England by George Monroe Royce (1918)
"... much as if I were now to get an opportunity of seeing and actually identifying
myself with the old habit of "harking" which was rapidly disappearing. ..."