Below, is a list of adjectives which are often used to describe the ears (i.e. ear lobes). The list is not exhaustive. It is just a sample. More adjectival phrases will be added, as and when they are noticed.
The phrases marked in Italics have been used in the Multiple Choice Test Questions 631 to 640. Pl. fill in the blanks, noting down answers on a piece of papers. If you prefer, you can compare your answers to those used by the Classic Writers. But they need not tally, because no two styles can coincide cent per cent.
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LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES, WHICH DESCRIBE EARS (EAR LOBES!)
Amazed ears
Big ears
Careless ears, critical ears
Deaf ears, deafened ears, dulled ears
Eager ears
flopped-out ears
Gentle ears, golden ears, good ears
Happy ears, huge ears
Incredulous ears
Keen ears
Long ears
Mortal ears
PInk ears, pointed earsPrincely ears
Quick ears
Ravished ears
Red ears
sharp ears, shell-like ears, slitted ears, sweet ears, sympathetic ears
Unheeding ears
Watchful years
Yearning ears, yellow ears
631. Oh, list while we a love confess
Oh, list while we/they a love confess
That words imperfectly express.
Those __________ ears, ah, do not close
That words imperfectly express.
To blighted love's distracting woes!
[William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan in their Play 'Let the Merry cymbols sound'].
632. Johnny had just gone into one of the cattle sheds to see what was there, when a little boy, with ___________ ears and a Cow Brand Soda cap on, stealthily closed the gate. [Nellie McClung in his 'The Black Creek Stopping-House'].
633. It was probably meant to cure the younger Piso of that passion for writing verse which had, as we have seen, spread like a plague among the Romans, and which made a visit to the public baths a penance to ________ ears,--for there the poetasters were always sure of an audience,--and added new terrors to the already sufficiently formidable horrors of the Roman banquet.[Theodore Martin in his 'Horace'].
634. Before we could catch our breaths a swarm of black Tannese was alongside and aboard--grinning, apelike creatures, with kinky hair and troubled eyes, wearing safety-pins and clay-pipes in their _______ ears: and as for the rest, wearing nothing behind and less than that before. [Jack London in his 'The Cruise of the Snark'].
635. "Take it easy, old boy," whispered Barney into the slim, _______ ears that moved ceaselessly backward and forward, "you'll get your chance when we strike the highway, never fear." [Edgard Rice Burrows in his 'The Mad King'.]
636. Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden,
And wail life's discords into ________ ears?
[James Thomson in his poem 'The City of Dreadful Night'].
637. Did the music fall upon _________ ears
Of the Indian hunters as they slumbering lay?
Rather in their dreams those forest natives heard
Echoes of the warrior's triumphant song
In that hunting-ground where sings the deathless bird.
[Virginia Carter Castleman in the poem 'Pocahontas'].
638. They know that poor Cosmo's time will come, and they are glad to be alone, for they have much to say that is for no other ______ ears. [J.M. Barrie in 'Alice Sit by the Fire'].
639. His mind refused to deal with so impossible a situation; he could not accept it as a fact that such words had actually been uttered in such a presence. And yet it was the truth; his ___________ ears still sizzled. `She yust laid egg!' His entire skin became flushed; his averted eyes glazed themselves with shame.
[Booth Tarkington in his novel 'Seventeen'.]
640. Whispered love and muttered fears,
How their echoes fly about!
None escape his ________ ears,
Every sigh might be a shout.
[Robert Ranke Graves in his 'Fairies and Fusiliers'].
