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Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.

songs […] not all ungrateful to thine ear

Dionysius[…]would give no ear to his suit.

the ears of a tub, skillet, or dish; The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow.

In journalism, ears flank the title as boxes in the left and right top corners of a publication (generally a newspaper).