"Prick up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grey-haired already, grandchildren, who some of them were staid heads of families themselves, and the little group of great-grandchildren, who knew as well as any one that when their father's grandfather began to talk of "the days when he was young," it was worth their while to hold their peace and prick up their ears. ...
— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed
... entrance seal, and there was the sound of a hot argument, followed by a commotion of some sort. Corey seemed to prick up his ears, and began to waddle rapidly toward ...
— Police Your Planet • Lester del Rey
... prick up his ears with an amount of worldly interest which scarcely harmonised with his ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... invade its woodland silence, is a little hostelry which no man possessed of a penny was ever known to pass in warm weather. Before its entrance, are certain pleasant, trimmed limes; likewise, a cool well, with so musical a bucket-handle that its fall upon the bucket rim will make a horse prick up his ears and neigh, upon the droughty road half a mile off. This is a house of great resort for haymaking tramps and harvest tramps, insomuch that as they sit within, drinking their mugs of beer, their relinquished scythes and reaping-hooks ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens
... dear Monsieur Percerin, above all if I ask you," said a mild voice at the door, a silvery voice which made D'Artagnan prick up his ears. It ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
