Hiding
['haɪdɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hide
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hide
(n.) The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment.
(n.) A flogging.
Edited by Diana
Examples
- This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But they have found him alive, hiding in the country, and have brought him in. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She hid her face on his shoulder, hiding before him, because he could see her so completely. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They sprang back, and fell upon their knees, each hiding her face upon the other's neck. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I shall find the means I want for keeping it safe and dry in its hiding-place, among the litter of old things in Mrs. Yolland's kitchen. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Then he'd to go into hiding, where he'd a been yet, if Thornton had followed him out as I'd hoped he would ha' done. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Alive in poverty and in hiding. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They were dangerous now only to their own side, and the papal representative spent an unpleasant night hiding from them in the forest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the contrary, it appeared that she had proposed to herself the task of hiding that feeling, and bridling her lover's ardour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I let him take them, therefore, from the hiding-place, and so saved myself an infinity of trouble. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Where are they hiding? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Apply with a feather or stick into their hiding places. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Sir Percival has his suspicions that Somebody is keeping her in hiding, and we are having that Somebody watched. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So you are the man, says Mr. Tulkinghorn, opening his door with the key, in whose hiding-place Mr. Gridley was found? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is hiding at my place. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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