Lexicographical Neighbors of Hissers
Literary usage of Hissers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Me and Lawson: "Humpty" Hotfoots Little Run in with Frenzied Copper by Richard Webb, Max J. Spero, G.W. Dillingham Company (1905)
"... HUMPTY AND THE BOSS "HEAD hissers IN THE SNAKE HOUSE" HEE! but them Wall Street
Separators has got a nerve to call Mister Law- son a Spider-web Speiler. ..."
2. The Life of Charles James Mathews: Chiefly Autobiographical, with Selections by Charles James Mathews (1879)
"The hissers were but clumsy ; the experienced and delicate hissers of the Odéon
would not have failed to treat the foreign actor handsomely, and to detach ..."
3. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1827)
"Those hisses occasioned much uproar ; and the theatre at this instant assumed
rather a terrific appearance, from the rage against the few hissers, ..."
4. The Australian Contingent: A History of the Patriotic Movement in New South by Frank Hutchinson, Francis Myers (1885)
"What poltroonery is this that animates those poor hissers ? Are we a Nation of
men, or a Nation of hissers like these ? I take it that this cause is that ..."
5. An Oriental Outing: Being a Narrative of a Cruise Along the Mediterranean by Edward Stansbury Wilson (1894)
"But it was so strange to American ears, and we were quite ready to howl at the
hissers. Art in Rome is so common that it has become a part of the mental ..."
6. An Oriental Outing: Being a Narrative of a Cruise Along the Mediterranean by Edward Stansbury Wilson (1894)
"So it was with all the hissers. They followed that melody as it twined and curled
and tumbled; agonized at the faintest discord, and showered their protests ..."
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