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Examples

  • Wazirs of al-Maamun, Kurrat al-Ayn = “coolness (i.e. delight) of the eyes” Ali bin Hishám surnamed Abu’l-Hasan, was prefect of Baghdad under the same reign.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I look forward to seeing the Yautja again it will be Yautja, will it? after having read Shirely's Predator: Forever Midnight-- which caused an uproar with Predator fans by introducing a cousin race of Predators known as the Hish who were hermaphrodite beings, I think that another story by you with the Yautja mythos will be fun to read.

    Predator Steve Perry 2007

  • Eshley took a step or two in the direction of the animal, clapped his hands, and made noises of the "Hish" and "Shoo" variety.

    Beasts and Super-Beasts 1870-1916 Saki 1893

  • In late 1940 the Haganah High Command decided to establish youth battalions also in the form of Field Units (Heil ha-Sadeh, or Hish).

    Haganah. 2009

  • Some will disagree on that and they have the right to disagree ofcourse but the whole Hish idea just doesn,t work.

    Predator Steve Perry 2007

  • Hish!” said Meg, who fancied she heard a sound, but all was quiet.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Hish!” whispered Madame, raising her broad palm; and then screwing in her cheeks, she made an ogle over her shoulder in the direction of the passage.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • I suppose she heard, or fancied she heard, a step approaching, for she said — “Hish!”

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Hish! be quaite, cheaile, weel you, and I weel tale you everything presently.”

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Hish hath set against him such a spell that after he hath cried a thousand times his voice may be heard no more but becometh part of the silence.

    The Gods of Pegana Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

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