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Examples
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KING: It says, "wide-eared, short, narrow mouth, long jackal - like legs."
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He was seething with impatience, both to tell and to hear, but he could see that it would not do to speak openly in front of a wide-eared and obviously bright child.
A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999
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As a preliminary he leads a group of wide-eared, doe-eyed victims to the rim of the Cañon.
Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910
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I wish it were spring cunningly blowing on the fallen sparks, odds and ends of the old, scattered fire, and kindling shapely little conflagrations curious long-legged foals, and wide-eared calves, and naked sparrow-bubs.
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He would thrust his nose into the cool wood moss, or into the black soil where long grasses grew, and snort with joy at the fat earth smells; or he would crouch for hours, as if in concealment, behind fungus covered trunks of fallen trees, wide-eyed and wide-eared to all that moved and sounded about him.
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He would thrust his nose into the cool wood moss, or into the black soil where long grasses grew, and snort with joy at the fat earth smells; or he would crouch for hours, as if in concealment, behind fungus covered trunks of fallen trees, wide-eyed and wide-eared to all that moved and sounded about him.
Chapter 7 1903
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He may be cross-eyed, wide-eared, thick-necked, bandy-legged -- what you please; but he must have a more or less prognathous jaw.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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He would thrust his nose into the cool wood moss, or into the black soil where long grasses grew, and snort with joy at the fat earth smells; or he would crouch for hours, as if in concealment, behind fungus-covered trunks of fallen trees, wide-eyed and wide-eared to all that moved and sounded about him.
The Call of the Wild Jack London 1896
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She listened wide-eared to all his tidings, but once, when his horse grew restive, so that he turned away from us women-kind she kissed my cheek, but in great haste, as though she would not have him see it.
Margery — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867
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She listened wide-eared to all his tidings, but once, when his horse grew restive, so that he turned away from us women-kind she kissed my cheek, but in great haste, as though she would not have him see it.
Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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