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Definition of Quick-eared
1. Adjective. Having keen hearing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quick-eared
Literary usage of Quick-eared
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Repository by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, S. W. Williams (1834)
"Doo^oo-zin : from doo, quick, soo ear, and zin, spirit or god ; the quick-eared
spirit. Doo-me-zin: from doo, quick, me, sight, and zin, god or spirit; ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1904)
"Pupils of her quick-eared kind range all the way from A to Z ; and yet they are
taught as if their memories and mental habits were exactly alike and needed ..."
3. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1853)
"It was dangerous to discharge a gun, or light a fire, or make the least noise,
where such quick- eared and quick-sighted enemies were at hand. ..."
4. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1898)
"It was dangerous to discharge a gun, or light a fire, or make the least noise,
where such quick- eared and quick-sighted enemies were at hand. ..."
5. The Trend of the Race: A Study of Present Tendencies in the Biological by Samuel Jackson Holmes (1921)
""When you get them slim maidens, so quick-eared and quick-eyed as a mouse, with
full lips that move and twinkle to their thoughts, and pretty, sly, ..."
6. Works by Washington Irving (1895)
"It was dangerous to discharge a gun, or light a fire, or make the least noise,
where such quick- eared and quick-sighted enemies were at hand. ..."
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