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Dawn -- a pale affair looking out suspiciously on the chastened world -- broke at last, and I "histed" my window (to quote the estimable
Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911
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A barrel was histed on a stand 'bove de ground a piece; wheat straw was then put into de barrel, hickory ashes was then emptied in, then water, and then it set 'bout ten days or more.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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The two silver teaspoons was burnished up, and stuck for show into the edge of the dresser; the three glass tumblers was sot forth in full view; and the tin coffee-pot, so high and so narrer at the top, was turned sideways on the shelf, so as to make the most on 't; and the little brown earthen-ware teapot was histed atop o 'that.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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'Stop, you willain, till I ontie myself,' says I. "'Ontie me, you wixen!' says he, 'who cares whether you are ontied or not?' and he histed the winder, -- a two-story winder it was, -- and out he went!"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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And I was histed seven yards above the tallest ash.
Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various
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'That'll help out our rations some,' says he; 'and besides, you don't see what I'm sittin' on; 'and, sure enough, he had histed into the boat a basket of port an'
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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They must have been thar, fer that boy could never have histed that sail alone.
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The sled took me between the legs and I was histed back over the tongue and dropped in a heap behind before I knew what had happened to me.
The Golden Road 1908
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And, for the first time sence she hove anchor on that flat, the critter unfurled her ears and histed 'em to the masthead.
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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They was lashins iv dhrink an 'story-tellin', an 'Felix's boy Aloysius histed a banner he had made with' Dooley aboo 'painted on it.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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