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  • Later in the poem, Baillie introduces an old soldier who roams the countryside and seeks shelter with the hind's family.

    '[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

  • Later in the poem, Baillie's narrator calls attention to the universal appeal of "mankind ['s]" "stor [ies] of himself" with the community that gathers at the hind's house.

    '[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

  • (E5) Old woman begging for "hind's flesh" or "camel-grease" finds his house; but the thief suspects her and kills her; or (E6) she gets away, after marking the house-door so that it may be recognized again.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • It sweetens the hind's pottage, and gives the meanest an assurance of manhood ....

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • Also, Miss Bracy on the third morning walked up to the farm at the head of the valley and hired down the hind's second daughter for a "help."

    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • The King was so carried away by the glamour of the white hind's magical beauty, that he went home at once, had the eyes of his seven Queens taken out, and, after throwing the poor blind creatures into a noisome dungeon whence they could not escape, set off once more for the hovel in the ravine, bearing with him his loathsome offering.

    Tales of the Punjab 1894

  • Seeing them so comfortably off, the son of seven mothers started with a light heart to marry the Princess; but when passing the white hind's palace he could not resist sending a bolt at some pigeons which were cooing on the parapet, and for the third time one fell dead just beneath the window where the white Queen was sitting.

    Tales of the Punjab 1894

  • They had been down to the hind's cottage, gossiping with his wife.

    Paul the Courageous Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895

  • 'A lion's skin? 'says Dinomachus;' I understood it was an uncovered hind's.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • That hind's udder was full of milk: a sudden thought ran like wine through her blood.

    The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

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