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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hie .
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Examples
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So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys.
Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets? Jay Weston 2011
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So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys.
Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets? Jay Weston 2011
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He agreed to furnish dogs on a given date, but no sooner had Floyd Vanderlip turned his toes up-creek, than Charley hied himself away in perturbation to Loraine Lisznayi.
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys.
Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets? Jay Weston 2011
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Last month, I blogged about a group of Mad Max superfan cosplayers who hied themselves out to the desert in a variety of amazing vehicles (including a flying one-person chopper!) and costumes and spent the weekend playing at apocalypse.
Boing Boing 2009
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“So we hied ourselves to the gallery,” Julia recalled.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Then he hied himself away to a crony of kindred pursuits, with whom he was wont to confer over coupons and roses, and between the two the destiny of young Neil Bonner was made manifest.
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As soon as I had a garden of my own, and a spot cleared out, I hied myself to the garden store in search of raspberries.
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“So we hied ourselves to the gallery,” Julia recalled.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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In late January 2005, Kate and Wills hied away to Balmoral for another long weekend together.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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