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
The professor has just confirmed what Ida told me; now I need to hie myself over to that side of town and find Katherine and Lily.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
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
“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
Then after a moment or two a degree of health came back and he turned and retraced his steps, feebly at first, then more rapidly, and then as hies the antlered stag.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
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
He and his party then hied them up hill and down dale across the Andes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He hied him to the office of the Radio Co., sat him in a comfortable chair and talked quietly to millions.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was taken into custody, questioned closely, and eventually was hied to Norfolk, where he has enjoyed an audience with Lord Dunmore himself.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Grabbing all that dough and hieing out for parts unknown.
From Time Magazine Archive
X Other dogs of loyal cheer Bounded at the whistle clear, Up the woodside hieing: This dog only watched in reach Of a faintly uttered speech, Or a louder sighing.
From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various
Yesterday the roads had resounded with the blithe tramp of eager feet hieing homewards.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
Jean Boulot, hieing back from Lorge, was alarmed by a strange light and a curious sound of menace like the distant shouting of vast crowds.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
Then he cried out to them, "Another day, O ye dogs;" and no sooner had they heard his outcry than they turned from him flying and to safety hieing.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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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