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Definition of Shushed
1. shush [v] - See also: shush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shushed
Literary usage of Shushed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Departure from the Script: A Novel by Rochelle Hollander Schwab (2002)
"Anita and her two great grandmas simultaneously shushed her. I kept my eyes
carefully averted from the Goldbergs as the rabbi began the second part of the ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"... maidens: and they sing the sweetest of all music, and the beart beats with
happiness, and kindness, and pleasure. Piano, pianissimo! the city ¡shushed. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"... will not be neglected by not a few happy families, whom our heart visits
offener than they may think—often when the whole household ¡shushed ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"... when the gal- nt sergeant grasped his trusty sword and the work :came no juke.
Hi; shushed right and left, regard- яд of heads or points, and turned the ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1809)
"... and choruses, are so elegantly shushed, even in point of versification, that
at this very day, when the melody of the Greek language is, ..."
6. Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield by John Gillies, George Whitefield (1838)
"pany of angels, and the spirit of just men made perfect, for ever. I say without
interruption ; for in this life, their eyes often shushed out with water, ..."
7. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1821)
"... for if murmurs dared to become audible, my voice would be (oo feeble to, drown
them; but when all ¡shushed — wlien nature sleeps Cum quiet ..."
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