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His wife couldn't make out all this but she pricked up her ears at the word "responsibilities" .

With his head aslant , and his ears pricked up, like his horse, he was frowning at the driving rain, and anxiously looking before him.

I must have let out a big sigh, because one of them pricked up his ears and raised his head as if waiting for me to speak.

The children pricked up their ears when they heard the word ice-cream'.

And she pricked up her ears -- they were very, very big -- and said, It's time I brushed my teeth.

Reddy pricked up his sharp, pointed ears. Way off back, in the direction from which they had come, they heard the baying of a dog.

When he assumed this attitude in the courtroom, ears were always pricked up, as it usually foretold a flood of withering sarcasm.

i pricked up my ears , for it was positively the first time i had ever heard a foreign tongue.

I pricked up my ear, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a dialect.

In addition, annexing warfare pricked up the occurence of flood since the Spring and Autumn period.

The landlady pricked up her ears at this, and Partridge looked a little confounded.

he was barely listening until the salary was mentioned . then he pricked up his ears.

She pricked up French when she stayed with her aunt in Paris.

Mary pricked up her ears when she heard them talking about her.

He pricked up his ears when they mentioned the salary.

The horses pricked up their ears.

He also pricked up his ears.

The dog's ear pricked up at the sound.

Two or three times, the terrible volleys from Porte Maillot had made him jump, with his ears pricked up like a hunting-dog;

Every time footsteps went past the door her ears pricked up and her heart beat faster