Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FAUST. Yes. Hush! I see Mephisto rise to claim
...Hush your drum...
...impatiently, "that's a tug-boat." "Why don't the men tumble off into the water?" "Oh, don't ask so many questions!" His conversation then became rather personal, and, staring intently at me, he said, "Aunty, aunty, ain't that little boy got pretty blue pants?" Blushes and "Hush, hush!" from the unfortunate relative, and a pervasive smile among the passengers. "Where do you s'pose he goes to school?" continued he. Reply inaudible. "Do they spank little boys at Harvard Collig?" The smiles at this period became audible, but as I have read the "Robbers" in my German...
...know what your beau's pretty horse's name is," said a little fellow to his sister, Saturday morning. "It's 'Damye.'" "Hush, Eddie, that's a naughty word." "Well, I don't care; that's his name, 'cos last night I heard him say, outside the fence, 'Whoa, Damye...
...Hush...