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Definition of Hissed
1. hiss [v] - See also: hiss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hissed
Literary usage of Hissed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"Replying to whit Garrick had written in return, he assured him that the piece '
was much hissed throughout the first act. I was myself in the gallery, ..."
2. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"... m the edifice of the new party, and the democratic baptismal regeneration of Mr.
Tyler himself. CHAPTER LXXXIII. THE VETO MESSAGE hissed IN THE SENATE ..."
3. Conversations with Distinguished Persons During the Second Empire, from 1860 by Nassau William Senior (1880)
"About's Gaetano was hissed, not for its own ... An Imperialist piece, called, I
think, Les Mousquetaires, was played and hissed at the Gymnase. ..."
4. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to by Gouverneur Morris (1888)
"Mirabeau hissed. The Duke of Orleans applauded. Visit to Marly. Madame du Barry.
Madame de Segur at her toilet. Petit-Trianon Gardens. ..."
5. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... an Englishwoman ; and to such a height was the fever of party admiration
carried, that on February 5, 1703-1704, Margherita was both hissed and pelted. ..."
6. Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor by Walter Savage Landor (1856)
"It is ugly enough, to be carried quietly to the grave; it is uglier, to be hissed
and hooted into it. PETRARCA. Middling men, favored in their lifetime by ..."
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