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  • Th 'good woman wrings her hands an' calls Hiven to witness that if ye have a toothache ye wake th 'neighborhood, an' slaps a mustard plasther on ye.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Sylvia Hiven says: Born and raised in Sweden, I threw caution to the wind and moved to the United States when I was twenty-one years old.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • Sylvia Hiven says: Born and raised in Sweden, I threw caution to the wind and moved to the United States when I was twenty-one years old.

    And Athena Leaped Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • To let into Hiven wheiver he'd please an 'if aw'd turn Papish, and giv him a Note,

    The Skipper's Dream 2000

  • "Hiven hilp ye av ye bring any _sambhur_ flesh to the Mess, Wargrave," said Burke.

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

  • I felt I agreed with the Irish coachman who at his first taste declared "The shtuff was made in Hiven but the Divil himself invinted the glasses!"

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • Many times afterward he wished he had not; but he made up his mind, as he slunk through, with Pat's "Hiven bliss ye!" following him, that only death should prevent him from keeping his word.

    The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

  • "Mother av Hiven," he muttered superstitiously, "it's one of the saints come down to look after the job I jumped, and waiting to strike me dead when I come back."

    The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers 1924

  • "Her own mother would smile down from Hiven if she could see her now," she thought.

    Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road 1921

  • Hiven forbid they don't lose the rest o 'ye fur their sins.

    Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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