hies
- present tense form of hie (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“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
Here too he is aided by ancient precedent; whereof if our brief Republican annals do not furnish examples, he hies to the exhaustless treasury of Despotism in the English common law.
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore
