Hums
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Hums a low song about a bird with broken wings who learns to fly.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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Hums out I should have been scared of him.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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Such meetings have been conducted in Hums 222and Tripoli, in Beirût, Abeih, Deir el Komr and Sidon, and in Suk el Ghurb, B'hamdûn, Hasbeiya, and Deir Mimas for many years.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
Once Uncle S. and Aunt A. were invited out to dine in Hums at the house of the deacon of the church.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
And the spray upsprings On its ghost-white wings, And tosses a kiss at the stars; While a water-sprite, In sea-pearls dight, Hums a sea-hymn's solemn bars.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
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