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Definition:to hurry
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Harry: Then I must renounce the Regency and hie me to a monastery. Edmund, you shall be Regent until ... your father returns.
BBC. Blackadder Season 1, episode 2: Born to be King
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"Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed;
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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“Avoid the town,” said the Princess, “and all the western side of the castle. ’Tis there the search must be making by Manfred and the strangers; but hie thee to the opposite quarter.
Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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