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[hahy] / haɪ /
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hasten
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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

He had not given 19 hie mistress because be was afraid of being punished by some sort of Holy Bogy, but he had been confronted by two people whom he loved.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

“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

So to the hunting-ground he hies, To chase till eve the forest-game, And not a single arrow flies, From that good bow, with erring aim.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard

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 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

He and his party then hied them up hill and down dale across the Andes.

From Time Magazine Archive

About two weeks after the stand-off with the wild horses at Wolf Creek, I hied myself to Vida.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Grabbing all that dough and hieing out for parts unknown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Look not to the west where the wild birds nest And the winds are hieing To sweep away sleep from the forest, And tatter the shrouds of sable silence Lit by the fire-fly's morris-dance.

From Nirvana Days by Cale Young Rice

Bathes now the billow   Winged steed flying, Sea-horse is longing to flee from the strand;  Glad will he follow   Him who is hieing Far from his home and his well beloved land.

From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Martha A. Lyon Holcomb

Then hither come thou, hieing lief, Awhile to leave th' Aonian cave, Where 'neath the rocky Thespian cliff Nymph Aganippe loves to lave 30In cooly waves outpoured.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

On thy fourth tour thou Schwarzwald-child be hieing, Where truth and goodness dwell, there enter in, And preach to those who with ennui are sighing, How innocent amusement they may win.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Little Ann was hying hard to get ahold of the coon but she couldn’t.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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

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

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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