By the ears
| in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears. |
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Nicholas neither saw nor heard Daniel until the chestnut, breathing heavily, panted past him, and he heard the fall of a body and saw Daniel lying on the wolf's back among the dogs, trying to seize her by the ears.
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