hearken
verb (used without object)
to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
had hearkened
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past perfectof hearken.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Had ye but asked in courteous wise that which ye have a mind to know, this knight had hearkened, and had answered ye of right goodwill; he had not refused, that do I know well.
From The Romance of Morien by Jessie Laidlay Weston
Buddha had hearkened at last unto their groaning, had pitied their misery!
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
Would I had hearkened to my father and married!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
I had begun to think that the ears of God had hearkened to our ardent prayers, but it pleased him to try us yet more hardly than ever.
True his own people, the Koreish, had driven him out with scorn and violence, had cast contumely and dishonour on him, by rejecting the word, while strangers had hearkened unto him and accepted it.
From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Arthur Glyn Leonard
