hark
verb (used without object)
to listen attentively; hearken.
had harked
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past perfectof hark.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And after I had harked a while, and perceived that there was no evil thing anigh, I went outward of the stones.
From The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
Marjorie’s 132 mind had harked back to the memory of the cloud that had once shadowed hers and Mary Raymond’s friendship.
From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Josephine Chase
A true Ardayre, of course—they would say that it had harked back, perhaps, to that Elizabethan Denzil whom his father had told him was his exact portrait in the picture gallery at Ardayre.
From The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn
Her mind, strung now to concert pitch, had harked back to the point it had reached some time ago, and which all the recent distractions had momentarily obliterated.
From The Bat by Avery Hopwood
"No—" There was a tone in this which let me feel that her thoughts had harked back to Suzette.
From Man and Maid by Elinor Glyn
