Read full poem →writ by Bandello; a translation of which into French, the reader may find
in Les Histoires Tragiques, par M. Belleforest, torn. 1. hist. 12. The same
story is related by M. Goulart; see Les Histoires admirables de nitre terns,
Dictionary Entry
An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “hist”
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Read full poem →with a preface concerning the author and his writings. For the plot see
the writers of those times ; as Cassidori Chron. Amm. Marcell. Hist. Eva-
grius, lib. ii. Procopius, Sec.
Read full poem →Wiped bye her soot-black hair with clenching fist,
While through her yellow teeth the spittle hist,
Swearing by all her lucky powers of fate.
Read full poem →A rose-leaf round thy finger's tapemess.
And soothe thy lips : hist ! when the airy stress
Of music's kiss impregnates the free winds,
Read full poem →ideals, and could imagine and delineate a woman who was both passionate
and high-minded. Diodorus (_Bibl. Hist._, lib. iii. p. 130) records the
exploits of Myrina, Queen of the Amazons, but it is probable that Byron
Read full poem →She sate by the pillar; we saw her clear:
"Margaret, hist! come quick, we are here!
Dear heart," I said, "we are long alone;
Read full poem →Worms in a carcase, fleas in a sleeve.
Hist! square shoulders, settle your thumbs
And buzz for the bishop--here he comes.
Read full poem →There already, to eternally reprove me?
("Hist!"--said Kate the queen;
But "Oh," cried the maiden, binding her tresses,
Read full poem →Lucretius (i. 291) has "gremium matris terrai." Mitford adds the
pathetic sentence of Pliny, _Hist. Nat._ ii. 63: "Nam terra novissime
complexa gremio jam a reliqua natura abnegatos, tum maxime, ut mater,
Read full poem →To scatter Plenty o'er a smiling Land,
And read their Hist'ry in a Nation's Eyes
Their Lot forbad: nor circumscrib'd alone