And the Ancient Near Eastern listener would prick up their ears: I thought I knew this story.
And Cerberus, how many times I'd asked him to stop with those melancholy stares of his, or to at least prick up his ears.
Friendship is a conifer tree, when you don't respect it, trample on it, it will prick up covered in thorns to protect themselves.
It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.