hush
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"Oh, come, come, pretty baby, good baby, hush, hush—confound it, HUSH, I say!" exploded the frightened, weary, baffled, distracted man, picking up the other baby, and trying to hold both his sons at once.
From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
He would say to her, 'Dear one, HUSH!
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Her sister clapped her hand over her mouth "Will you HUSH, you wretched thing?" she whimpered.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean
Bellegarde laid his fingers upon his lips with a whispered HUSH!
From The American by James, Henry
When you took that fourth cup of tea I said to myself—" "HUSH!
From Thankful's Inheritance by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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