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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As the last of the Confederate columns had hied away towards Centreville, he ordered thither those corps, and called up the Fifth to join him.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
The parties abroad had hied away to a distant quarter.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
The Browns, man and wife and little boy and baby, had hied them early to the fair with nearly the whole population of the countryside.
From Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett
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 The Mintage by Elbert Hubbard
Arriguccio meanwhile had hied him with all speed straight from the house to that of his wife's brothers, where by dint of much knocking he made himself heard, and was admitted.
From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
