Example Sentences

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A wise man, with fine theories to air, hies him to the most important conference or institute that will admit him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation.

From Time Magazine Archive

When a U. S. President enters the White House, Father Time knows where to find him for the next four years and generally hies himself to Paris, there to split seconds as the Premiers fall.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You are now thirteen,” the man said, “and I have in my hies an agreement for this arrangement signed by Kapugen and Naka.”

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

For relief he hies, For relief he flyes130 To them on whom he spent his gold: They do him deny, They do him defie; They will not once his face behold.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various