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Examples
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Loony went with him, puzzled by the sudden "hists" and "pssts" that Snubby suddenly addressed to him.
The Rilloby Fair Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950
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'A tinker! 'repeated Sir Hugh, quite loud, in defiance of the signs and hists! hists! of Camilla,' good lack! that's a person I should never have thought of! '
Camilla 2008
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Another colleague, a quiet fellow from the School of Technology, came up with a Queen greatest hists list:
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And, the hag they damename Coverfew hists from her lane.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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If coal oil hists a couple of cents on the gallon you know Andy carried his valises home empty an 'if railroad rates jumps -- the senators got nicked a little, an' vicy versy.
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I gotter haul the water in a bucket, and cook on an oil stove, and they hists the price of the ile, 'cause he comes by in a wagon with it.
The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920
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Anyhow, after a minute more of that strain, a feller by the door picks up his gun out of the corner with a scrape, and hists it to his shoulder and walks out.
Danny's Own Story 1912
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Now tie the top o 'the cover to the top o' the last pole by the short lash-rope, hist the pole into place -- that hists the cover, too, ye see -- an 'ye swing it round with the smoke-poles an' fasten the two edges together with the wooden pins.
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Dead fokes hists der behime leg en hollers wahoo! w'en a man come ter see um, 'sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Dead fokes hists der behime leg en hollers wahoo! w'en a man come ter see um, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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