O wilt thou go home, myhinny and my heart, O wilt thou go home, my dearie; And I will close thee in a close room Where no man shall come near thee.
O hold your tongue, my hinny and my heart, O hold your tongue, my dearie; For I will swear by the moon and the stars That thy lord shall nae mair come near thee.
With respect to the difference between the mule and the hinny I am aware that this has generally been attributed to the sire and dam transmitting their characters differently; but Colin, who has given in his 'Traite Phys.
The hungry Jew in wilderness, Rejoicing o'er his manna, Was naething to my hinny bliss Upon the lips of Anna.
Musha, hinny darlint, jist pit yer finger into yer pocket and pull me out the tin dollars and seventy cents that you owe me.
The mule is much nearer in temper and appearance to the ass than to the horse; the hinny in some points resembles the horse more, as it neighs, while the mule brays like the ass.
The MULE is a hybrid bred between mare and male ass; while the hinny is the rarer result of hybridism between horse and female ass.
He cites the differences between the Mule and the Hinny in illustration of his thesis, pointing out that the Mule is externally more like a horse and the Hinny more like an ass.
This, he says, is because the Mule has the horse for a father, and the Hinny the ass, thus inverting the actual facts!
As sunshine to the flowers in May, As wild flowers to the hinny bee, As fragrant scent o' new mown hay, So my true love is sweet to me.
No but my hinny might have been better if he had liked; for mony a bein nook in mony a braw house has been offered to my hinny Willie, if he wad but just bide still and play to the gentles.
Killbuck, with eyes fixed upon the Indians, was on the point of giving the signal of attack to his comrade, when the shrill hinny of his mule reverberated through the gorge.
This the two men at once perceived; but old Killbuck knew that if he passed within sight or smell of his mule, he would be received with a hinny of recognition, which would at once alarm the enemy.
Aunt Patty hitched her chair close up, remarking, as she did so, that "the best news she could hear of hinny was, that she was coming back to her old aunty.
The body and barrel, however, of the hinny are flat and narrow, in which it differs from the horse and resembles the she ass.
It is this, both hybrids, the mule and the hinny take after the male parents in all their external characters save one, which is size.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hinny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
