Definitions
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- n. Plural form of hind.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wives are called hinds and mountain goats its true, however it is obviously regarded as a METAPHOR.
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterward learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterward learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me?
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them (as I afterwards learned) whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
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Some of them were of that class called hinds, paying the rents of their little homesteads by stated periods of service allotted to each; in this respect differing but little from the serfs and villains of a more remote era, their toil not a whit less irksome, though their liberty, in name at least, was less under the control and caprice of their lord.
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He called his hinds about him, and asked them, as I afterwards learned, whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature that resembled me.
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A stag flanked by two female red deer, or "hinds," trotted down a steep moorland pasture toward a wood.
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Hindsight is what is needed and there are many "hinds" available within the republican camp to suit all "conservative" tastes !
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We know how to bury our dead in silence and mosquitoes, to slap them off our limbs and hinds, now knowing pain and grief and regret, but not saying as much.
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One cannot help but gasp at the creative sculpting genius that goes into each piece: A starving dog scratching fleas, a bear with its paw in a honey pot, a snake constricting a wincing jaguar, a winged horse on its hinds, a woman with long braided locks and the body of an armadillo, or a deer, life-size by Mexican standards.
Jacobo Angeles: A rich wood-carving tradition in Oaxaca, dating to pre-Hispanic times
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