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1  All the fair structure of their hopes came crashing about their ears.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
2  And Marija is just fighting drunk when there come to her ears the facts about the villains who have not paid that night.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
3  They unwrapped him, and a man began vigorously rubbing his ears; and as they were frozen stiff, it took only two or three rubs to break them short off.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  He saw her as he had married her, with all her tenderness, with her heart of wonder; the very words she had spoken seemed to ring now in his ears, the tears she had shed to be wet upon his cheek.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
5  He gave place to a Norwegian sailor, who had lost half an ear in a drunken brawl, and who proved to be quarrelsome, cursing Jurgis because he moved in his bunk and caused the roaches to drop upon the lower one.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
6  In five minutes he was, of course, a mass of fertilizer from head to feet; they gave him a sponge to tie over his mouth, so that he could breathe, but the sponge did not prevent his lips and eyelids from caking up with it and his ears from filling solid.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
7  Speaking had been going on all the time, and the audience was clapping its hands and shouting, thrilling with excitement; and little by little the sounds were beginning to blur in Jurgis's ears, and his thoughts were beginning to run together, and his head to wobble and nod.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28