hie
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Nick Wittgren allowed four straight singles starting the fourth, including Alex Rivas’ RBI hie.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
If you, like me, find yourself wondering this week about how the hell this whole Johnny English thing got started, hie yourself to YouTube and search for “Johnny English Barclaycard.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2018
Prithee wouldst thou extinguish it, or hie thee to the lobby?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2015
Chief among the sprawling cast are the overbearingly pompous grocer, Herr Zangler, and his two naif assistants who seize the opportunity of their boss' day-long absence to hie off to Vienna on a romantic adventure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2014
She swayed slightly again and then said, “M — Master is stopped — hie — coming?”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
A wise man, with fine theories to air, hies him to the most important conference or institute that will admit him.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a U. S. President enters the White House, Father Time knows where to find him for the next four years and generally hies himself to Paris, there to split seconds as the Premiers fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You are now thirteen,” the man said, “and I have in my hies an agreement for this arrangement signed by Kapugen and Naka.”
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
Look there! look there! friend Hagan! how hither there she hies, Who to this land has drawn us with friendly seeming lies!
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Then he hied to the living room couch.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 31, 2011
When the author took the play home for repairs, Nichols hied himself off to Vancouver for the summer to direct “The Importance of Being Earnest” and to play the Dauphin opposite Susan Kohner’s St. Joan.
From Newsweek
To Tokyo he hied in 1923, arrived just in time to tremble through the most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history.
From Time Magazine Archive
To return the visit to them in Rome last year by King George and Queen Mary, King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena, accompanied by Prince Umberto and Princess Mafalda, hied them to London.
From Time Magazine Archive
The number of bankruptcies hied with the federal court in Midland went up by 65 percent.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Grabbing all that dough and hieing out for parts unknown.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was evening when his carriage thundered up to the little door in Brompton, whither the affectionate fellow drove first, and before hieing to the apartments secured for him by Mr. Dobbin at the Slaughters'.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
He had a few hours before left the garrison of Ninety-Six, and was now hieing with all haste to Blackstock's on a mission of importance.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
The old year is dying, Its last hour is hieing Over the verge; The night winds are plying, And are mournfully sighing Its funeral dirge.
From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher
Dost perceive, Frederic," said the facetious Hilary, "yon modestly arrayed pair of palpable gents hieing hitherward yet pretending not to descry us?
From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball
Little Ann was hying hard to get ahold of the coon but she couldn’t.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
Robak, pressing the lad's brow to his breast and hying his palms crosswise on his head, gazed aloft and said: “My son, may God be with you!”
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
Two other hying machines were heard of about this date, one by Professor Giampietre, of Pavia, cigar-shaped, driven by screws, and rigged with masts and sails.
From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by John Mackenzie Bacon
To my mind, this latter is the pristine form of the tale, and points to a Buddhist origin—mercy to all hying creatures being one of the leading doctrines of pure Buddhism.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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