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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hie.

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Examples

  • So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys.

    Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets? Jay Weston 2011

  • So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys.

    Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets? Jay Weston 2011

  • He agreed to furnish dogs on a given date, but no sooner had Floyd Vanderlip turned his toes up-creek, than Charley hied himself away in perturbation to Loraine Lisznayi.

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys.

    Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets? Jay Weston 2011

  • Last month, I blogged about a group of Mad Max superfan cosplayers who hied themselves out to the desert in a variety of amazing vehicles (including a flying one-person chopper!) and costumes and spent the weekend playing at apocalypse.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • “So we hied ourselves to the gallery,” Julia recalled.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Then he hied himself away to a crony of kindred pursuits, with whom he was wont to confer over coupons and roses, and between the two the destiny of young Neil Bonner was made manifest.

    THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

  • As soon as I had a garden of my own, and a spot cleared out, I hied myself to the garden store in search of raspberries.

    » Raspberries Strocel.com 2009

  • “So we hied ourselves to the gallery,” Julia recalled.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • In late January 2005, Kate and Wills hied away to Balmoral for another long weekend together.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

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