speed

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving quickly
agility
beetle
belt
bob up
bowl down/along something
cannonball
gallop
gun
leg
make good timeidiom
make hasteidiom
make off
outrun
outrush
outsail
pelt
rush
scorch
scuttle
shoot

Examples of hie

hie
Let's hie to the history books.
From NPR
Thus hie, like they, is used for groups of females, males, and males and females.
Consider, for example, the following nominative case forms: he, heo, hit, hie (he, she, it, they).
He hies himself there and revels in the delights of a perfect dinner.
From Project Gutenberg
Knights and squires now hied them to their horses; it thought them right, which their lord did bid.
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Then by the river he hied him higher up upon the sandy shore, to where he found an inn upon the other bank.
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What she needed was restoratives--something to give her strength that she might hie to his bedside and tenderly nurse and care for him.
From Project Gutenberg
I'll hie me forth the world to see!
From Project Gutenberg
I will hie me home, and give the next hours to silent thought and prayer.
From Project Gutenberg
But the time was nigh to homeward hie, when, imagine our despair!
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Surely it is worth one's while to hie early to the haunts of the birds to hear such a tumult of song.
From Project Gutenberg
He gathered them up and hied home at once.
From Project Gutenberg
We soon called the dogs off and "hied" them on for a fresh trail.
From Project Gutenberg
Vacation came on, and they hied to their homes with not a thought of the great sorrow they had brought on their innocent victim.
From Project Gutenberg
Thoroughly tired out, our boys finally said good-by to these riotous sounds and hied away to the quiet house where they had a room.
From Project Gutenberg
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