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
Both times we hie off into the woods, Viola with her hand round Manchee’s snout and me trying to keep my Noise as Prentisstown-free as possible till they pass.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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
Wherever Father Berrard hears of a new blanket pattern, thither he hies to get a drawing of it; and on many a fool's errand his quest has taken him.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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
Following the instructions of his Chief, Prince Caetani hied him to Pittsburgh, there to take part in the simple funeral service held in an undertaker's chapel.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Tokyo he hied in 1923, arrived just in time to tremble through the most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history.
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
All the birds that skim the wave In hasty flight are hieing home; T the lee of safer haven All the storm-tossed vessels come.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
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
Tell me, people, hither hieing, Have you seen my runaway?
From Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field
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
Little Ann was hying hard to get ahold of the coon but she couldn’t.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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
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
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