"So I ___!"

• Caught wind
• Got the word
• "And fired the shot ___ . . . ": Emerson
• Presided over, as a case
• Got word of
• Listened to
• Picked up while holding still, say
• Tried brains stuffed with bit of radish?
• Listened in

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past tense and past participle of hear , Old English herde .