But his imprecise ears missed her position in the dark.
It was so low that the normal ear would have missed it.
"You'll be all right," he said, "but your left ear is missing."
The directory also told us what our ears couldn't have missed: nearly every family here included children.
His left ear was missing, too, cleanly cut away.
Under all that hair, the ears were missing.
A fresh scar ran across one cheek, and his left ear was missing.
Her ear just missed the side of a tray.
He was slightly deaf on the left side; he turned so that his right ear would miss nothing.
Elderly ears often miss higher sounds, so don't speak louder, speak lower.