Yet hist! faint eerie tones are sometimes heard — which blanch the cheek and palsy all the limbs — like to the moaning of departed souls!
Source: tatoeba (10998357)
Hist
//hɪst//
Synonyms for "hist" (11 found)
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Translations
7 translations across 4 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- sjuut intj (injunction to be silent)
Czech
3 entries- pst intj (injunction to be silent)
- pšt intj (injunction to be silent)
- syknutí noun (injunction to be silent)
Dutch
1 entries- sst intj (injunction to be silent)
Russian
2 entries- тсс intj (injunction to be silent)
- цыц intj (injunction to be silent)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
"My worthy Nelly! I am greatly rejoiced to find it is no other than thee. Hist! child, hist! Should Ishmael gain a knowledge of our plans, he would not hesitate to cast us both from this rock, upon the plain beneath. Hist! Nelly, hist!"
Source: wiktionary
1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Scenes from "Politian", 2009 [1902], Charles F. Richardson (editor), The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: Poems, page 87, Hist! hist! thou canst not say / Thou hearest not now Baldazzar?,
Source: wiktionary
There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist—hark! By Jove, I have it!
Source: wiktionary
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