hie
verb (used without object)
to hasten; speed; go in haste.
had hied
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past perfectof hie.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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"All New York" had hied "out of town" with its usual unpatriotic snobbishness, and only the attendants of Mr. Randall Clayton's rooms noted his absence.
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Richard Savage
The parties abroad had hied away to a distant quarter.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
Anthony laughed; Gloria called down the curse of Heaven upon monkeys, including in her malevolence all the passengers of the bus and their perspiring offspring who had hied themselves monkey-ward.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Meanwhile Siegfried, the stately man, or ever any marked it, had hied him to the ship, where he found his magic cloak concealed.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
The weather was so bad that I refused to go—the wind blew in gusts, sheet-lightning filled the eastern sky, and all honest men, but poor belated gondoliers, had hied them home.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard
