noun
definition
(Scots) A whisper
verb
definition
To listen attentively; often used in the imperative.
Examples of hark in a Sentence
Hark to him jabbering!
To him we owe the well-known catch, "Hark, the bonny Christ Church bells."
They ' constantly hark back to the golden age of their youth.
Far less common but certainly seen is a look that could almost hark back to colonial America.
The critical philosophy had indeed made it impossible to hark back to Leibnitz or any other master otherwise than with a difference.
The learner is to be led forward to the unknown by being made to hark back to more familiar groupings of the alphabet of nature which he is coming to recognize with some certainty.
Mariah's voice is equally angelic on Joy to the World, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, and a properly subdued Silent Night.
There's an interesting array to be found here, from Hark the Herald Angels Sing to I Hate Christmas Parties.
Still, for awhile, the frost fairies did not notice this strange occurrence, for they were down on the grass, so far below the tree-tops that the wonderful shower of treasure was a long time in reaching them; but at last one of them said, Hark!
Swimwear designs and colors also hark back to times gone by, with the fashion for polka-dots finding its way into swimwear collections, and sixties-style swirls cropping up again.
I have water from the spring, and a loaf of brown bread on the shelf.--Hark!
At last the men mounted, and, as they say in the old songs, away went the steeds with bridles ringing and whips cracking and hounds racing ahead, and away went the champion hunters "with hark and whoop and wild halloo!"
And hark! here comes the cattle-train bearing the cattle of a thousand hills, sheepcots, stables, and cow-yards in the air, drovers with their sticks, and shepherd boys in the midst of their flocks, all but the mountain pastures, whirled along like leaves blown from the mountains by the September gales.