Sailors used to believe that piercing one earlobe gave greater acuity in the opposite ear.

Mentia paused, then knocked her head with the heel of her hand, and some dottle flew out her opposite ear.

Wolruf 's concession to fashion was a single yellow bandana tied around her left wrist and a gold stud in the opposite ear.

Twisting Guy to face the others, Lyons wrapped his left wrist around the skinhead's throat and grabbed the opposite ear.

Draw a line from the eyes to the ears--I mean the opposite ears, sir.

To short him out, Larry places a screwdriver in Curly's opposite ear, bursting the light bulb.

The bullet had entered at the temple and exited behind the opposite ear.

One bullet had made a keloid beauty mark on my right cheek; another had neatly sliced off the top of the opposite ear.

In his opposite ear dangled a triangular bronze earring.

The effect on the opposite ear, relative to the tuning fork, is reverse to the ear being tested.