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A hissing noise was heard as if from a score of rattlesnakes, and now the cow-punchers emerged on all sides from the darkness, stepping high, with ludicrously exaggerated caution, and "hist" - ing to one another to observe the utmost prudence in approaching.

Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886

Wimmen's clubs is all right so long as they stick to readin 'hist'ry and discussin' tattin ', but when they flock like a lot of old hen turkeys and go to peckin' a man because he's down and can't help himself, it ain't anything but persecution -- wolves turnin 'on another one that's got his leg broke.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

But the girls had not reached the living-room door before a "hist" halted them.

Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

The "hist" was repeated, and then her own name was called softly but imperatively.

Beverly of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

For we had not lain half an hour, enjoying the shade, and I half asleep, when he started up with a "hist," and slipped an arrow into his bow.

Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess Talbot Baines Reed 1872

As there was no vacant place, the slaves took hold of one of the guests, and gave him what the boys would call a "hist," right through the window, and

Ting-a-ling Frank Richard Stockton 1868

It would be a kind of hist, you know, to see my name in print, Captain Joseph Peterkin, P.M. '

Tracy Park Mary Jane Holmes 1866

As I did so, I heard the "hist" of another arrow passing my cheek.

The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

"Wa-al," said the farmer, smiling, "I d'no ez 't' hes so to speak a hist'ry, an 'yit there's allays somethin' amoosin 'to me about that platter.

Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

"hist" from his lips caused the speaker to moderate his tones instantly.

Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails Alan Douglas