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Definition of Shushing
1. shush [v] - See also: shush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shushing
Literary usage of Shushing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"... you like. or 7 f' J Once every minute the wires Y and Z will ime together,
energizing the magnet Q and -shushing forward the minute-hand of the tower ! ..."
2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"The rush of water echoed off the cave walls, a white-noise shushing that sounded
like skis cutting through powder. It was a beautiful sound, ..."
3. History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th Century by Henry Hoyle Howorth, Ernest George Ravenstein (1876)
"... occasional morsels of gingerbread which he threw them, were ordered to sing.
They struck up in concert a Kalmuk song, in honour of a certain shushing ..."
4. Inventing a Classroom: Life in a Bilingual, Whole Language Learning Community by Kathryn F. Whitmore, Caryl G. Crowell (1994)
"... other hand to her lips, shushing the children as they marched across the
threshold. All components of typical classrooms support the power structure, ..."
5. The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) by Yung Sik Kim (2000)
"12, note 47 rightward movement the wandering him making a change a chapter of
the shushing recorded conversations "There is li for this. ..."
6. Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style Into Writer's Workshop by Jeff Anderson (2005)
"But Mrs. Evans was at the next table by that time, shushing me over her shoulder.
Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods As well-intentioned as ..."
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