Groans andhisses were heard, and a voice sent up this cry, "Lord of Hosts, provide a champion for thy people!
The mountain shook and groans and hisses were heard in the air as he pried up the stone that lay across the pit-mouth.
When wounded or brought to bay, it hisses like an enraged gander.
The hisses of mob violence, the scoffs and sneers, had changed to whispered tributes all over the house, "There he is, look!
Surely the attorney general so long and well known here, needs not the aid of your hisses against one so young as I am--my voice, never before heard in your walls.
Of Garrison's appearance at this time, it is sufficient to say that it was no more nor less serene and untroubled than when he stood amid the hisses of the mob in Faneuil Hall.
A storm of mingled applause and hisses interrupted the bold young orator--with cries of "take that back--take that back.
The Brunswick dynasty was included within the aim of the hisses and execrations which prevailed.
When the best scenes in the "Good-natured Man" were bringing down hisses and imperilling the comedy, Goldsmith fell into a tremor, from which the bare success of the play could not relieve him.
The hisses continued along with the applause when Stewart faced the throng.
But sibilantly, steadily, ominously the derogatory hisses were threaded with the frank clamor of welcome; hisses whose sources were concealed.
The Orangemen opened up with a storm of hisses and groans, which was responded to by the friends of Ireland with excited cheering.
Once or twice she was encored five and six times in succession, and received with hisses when she appeared, and discharged with hisses and laughter when she had finished--then instantly encored and insulted again!
I cannot assert that I felt any inclination to join in the enthusiastic applause that was lavished upon the actress by the crowded house, nor in the hisses that were occasionally heard, but only to be overwhelmed by fresh plaudits.
The threatening hissesof the audience did not disturb him as he conversed half aloud, and he only turned his head when the singer suddenly paused.
Sweet lisping of kisses, Dry rustle of hair; A footfall thathisses Like a leaf in the air When the brown boughs are bare.
He must humor the citizens in the sun, those tumultuous and terrible demagogues who carried class hatred into the plaza but easily changed hisses into applause when a slight show of consideration flattered their pride.
Applause arose, but it was short; a threatening murmur cut by strident hisses followed.
Then he repeated the act a third time, each time doing it crudely but with such fearlessness that what in another would have provoked hisses was received with great explosions of admiration.
The hisses were deafening, obliging the women to cover their ears.
The people in the shade applauded with class enthusiasm, while the audience in the sun broke into hisses and jibes.
The animal drew away from the encounter, running, bellowing with fury, while the rows of seats burst out into hisses and protests.
The public became less restless, ceasing to gesticulate, but the shouts and hisses continued.
Hisses and shouts of protest were united to this ironic chorus on the part of the public.
A storm of hoots and hisses broke loose in the amphitheatre.
This manner of playing the lion-tamer who takes refuge behind the bars of his cage made so comic an impression that the hisses became mingled with bursts of laughter.
Allan MacNab expressed himself to this effect with his customary emphasis, and was greeted with a storm of hisses from the York electors in the gallery.
It was no wonder that hisses and groans were sometimes heard from quiet nooks and corners when the Attorney-General passed along the streets of York.
But from the further ranks of the crowd cries and hisses rose against the murderers.
The unalloyed triumph of Eckhof endured but for one moment, for suddenly, high above the shouts of applause, arose a piercing, derisive whistle, succeeded by hisses and groans.
And it boils and it roars, and it hisses and seethes, As when water and fire first blend; To the sky spurts the foam in steam-laden wreaths, And wave passes hard upon wave without end.
And it boils and it roars, and it hisses and seethes, As when water and fire first blend; To the sky spurts the foam in steam-laden wreaths, And wave presses hard upon wave without end.
I shall remember that one-eyed butcher, and if there be virtue in hisses or in thumbs, he shall rue the hour he laid a lash on Gallienus, poor fellow!
It is said of him whom I have just spoken of, that soon as he had publicly renounced Christ, and sacrificed, hisses and yells of contempt broke from the surrounding crowds.
Applause and hissesmingled at this, until the latter caught up with the former, merging all the sounds into a conglomeration of noises such as only school girls know how to issue.
Hideous hisses appeared to shake the gloomy granite roof of that mighty cavern--hisses which carried terror to our hearts.
At length he was permitted to retire, pursued by the hissesand curses of both parties, to a lonely manor house in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hisses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
