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To hark back
Hark Hark, v. i. [OE. herken. See Hearken.] To listen; to hearken. [Now rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark! listen.] --Hudibras. Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression. He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. Haggard. He harked back to the subject. --W. E. Norris.

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- the 1979 film Quadrophenia. The mod revival was a conscious effort to hark back to the earlier generation in terms of style and presentation. In the early...
- language is particularly terse, the books appear to render hieroglyphic script, and thus to hark back to the pre-conquest period. Taken together, the Books...
- Truman administration, and both largely ignored its record, preferred to hark back to the Roosevelt's New Deal achievements, and warned against a repetition...
- considerable part of the camp. The name “Graben” (English: ditch) is believed to hark back to the defensive ditches of the military camp. It is thought that at least...
- is understood to be the highest rank in the feudal order, potentially subject, at least nominally, only to an emperor (harking back to the client kings...
- "Ständchen" (known in English by its first line "Hark, hark, the lark"), D 889, is a lied for solo voice and piano by Franz Schubert, composed in July...
- alliance was formed in order to stop the far-right National Rally party from taking power. The name intends to hark back on the old Po****r Front formed...
- London and the efforts of Detective Inspector Max Arnold and his partner to solve the crimes. It has been renewed for a third series. The series focuses...
- Tsui Hark (Chinese: 徐克, Vietnamese: Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-kong (Vietnamese: Từ Văn Quang), is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Tsui has...