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Definition of "quick-eared" []

  • Having keen hearing (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "quick-eared" in a sentence
  • "The feathers were so soft that not even a quick-eared mouse could hear an owl swooping silently down!"
  • "Ferdinand's spies were, a quick-eared legion -- the spirit-stirring Hymn of the Constitution, or the wild Tragala -- that Spanish Marseillaise, to whose exciting notes rivers of blood have flowed."
  • "She rose presently, quick-eared to wait the call, and went to her desk in the window."
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