The critic hideshis scepticism under the English cant of practical.
He hides no defect of his form, features, dress, connection, or birthplace, for he thinks every circumstance belonging to him comes recommended to you.
A red curtain, which we are requested not to remove, hides us from the congregation.
The fourth end of the quadrangle was formed by a corral and a big wooden scaffolding on which hung hides and strips of drying meat.
The weaver hides the money in a heap of rags, unknown to his wife, who sells them to a rag-collector for a trifling sum.
The slave hides the box in his pocket and says he did not find it.
In the Arabian tale the hero climbs up into a tree when he sees the robbers approach, in The Dummburg he hides himself behind a tree to watch the proceedings of the monk; and in Grimm's version he hides in a tree.
Sometimes he hides his hoary head in clouds, unwilling to witness the injustice done the puny children who have played around his feet for generations past.
She hides in the bushes like the wild cat that she is!
Then he hides the eggs in the most unexpected places, we have to hunt and hunt a long time before we have found them all.
I think the Easter Hare has been along here, perhaps he lives here, and that tin hides the entrance to his house.
She hidesit from you, but she cannot hide it from us.
He appears frightened and hideshis hands quickly behind his back.
By another chute a man stood with a paint pot, stamping a fresh brand upon every new-shorn sheep, and in a last corral the naked ones, their white hides spotted with blood from their cuts, blatted frantically for their lambs.
Those ceorles who acquired possession of five hides of land with a large house, court, and bell to call together their servants, were raised to the rank of thanes of the lowest class.
Christ by his flesh, hides in us life and a seed of immortality, which destroys in us all corruption," (Ibid.
Down, stormy passions, down; no more Let your rude waves invade the shore Where blushing reason sits, and hides Her from the fury of your tides.
No sect, and no individuals, with some rare exceptions, have caught the spirit of our religion, which makes heroic virtue easy, and hides real sanctity in many hearts that beat only for God.
He dares not seize on me when my father is near; he shrinks up till he is little, and hides himself in a spider's web over the window.
The {185} Monarda or bee-balm, too, hides a sweet sip in each of its red tubes for his special benefit.
Except when nesting he comes into the garden, picks minute insects out of the blossoming shrubbery, hops about on the ground, visits the raspberry tangle, and hides among the bushes along the roadside.
A squall of thick rain hidesthe Downs and the south end of the Goodwin Sands from view.
Now can your young braves go forth upon the hunt unharmed and bring back meat for feastings and hides for their squaws to fashion.
He watched the women as they embroidered and cooked, tanned hides and dyed skins, scolded and petted their children.
Come through the sickness and the pain, The sore unrest that tosses still; Through aching dark that hides the gain Come and arouse my fainting will.
What Ocean hides in that howling hell of it Live soul will never come back to tell of it!
All are moved; AGNES SOREL weeping, hides her face on the bosom of the KING.
The KING hides his face; AGNES hastens towards him and clasps him in her arms; all the bystanders express aversion and horror.
In the still air the music lies unheard; In the rough marble beauty hides unseen; To make the music and the beauty needs A master's touch, the sculptor's chisel keen.
The houses did not begin to light up until St. Francis was passing; St. John the Baptist did not enjoy this honor and passed hastily by as if ashamed to be the only one dressed in hides in such a crowd of folk covered with gold and jewels.
One night, a quantity of hides were stolen from his tannery, and he had reason to believe that the thief was a quarrelsome, drunken neighbor, whom I will call John Smith.
The next week, the following advertisement appeared in the County newspaper: "Whoever stole a lot of hides on the fifth of the present month, is hereby informed that the owner has a sincere wish to be his friend.
A few nights afterward, as the tanner's family were about retiring to rest, they heard a timid knock, and when the door was opened, there stood John Smith with a load of hides on his shoulder.
I stole the hides from you, meaning to sell them the first chance I could get.
Your warbling, if it be of genuine quality, shall echo upon the other side of the hill which hides the unborn years.
To be sure he was as dull as a choice spirit; but hang it, he was grateful, very grateful; and gratitude hides a multitude of faults.
Here you hardly get in camp before you begin by knocking over a big cat that crawls out of our chimney; and before a single day goes by you've lain out a heap of fine wolf hides for me to stretch and dry.
And next winter perhaps those same hides will be keeping some chauffeur warm, as he guides his car along Fifth Avenue in New York," said Felix, humorously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
