Hums
Britishnoun
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Hums out I should have been scared of him.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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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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Wilson, a missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., took up his residence in Hums in October 1855, and remained until obliged to leave by the civil war which raged in the country in 1860.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
The city of Hums, the ancient Emessa, is situated about one mile east of the river Orontes, and about half way between Aleppo and Damascus.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
In October, 1862, the Arabic official newspaper in Beirût, contained a letter from Hums which illustrates this fact.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
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