The rich brother looks at him, and hums and strokes his beard.
It humslike a bee on the tea-table, and the steam rises in a little jet from a tiny hole in the top.
She hits him lightly on the ear with the stockings; then hums a little.
The labouring bee Hums round me, and on hesitating wing O'er beds of purple clover, quiveringly Hovers the butterfly.
The earth absorbs the genial rays Which vivify the summer, The busy bee hums on his way Exhausting every flower, Returning to its earthen nest Laden with honied treasure.
The shepherd's soft and mellow voice Is heard upon her mountain, Where oft he humshis rustic song To his beloved maiden, Resounding through the gorges deep With bleat of sheep and oxen.
He opes his snuff-box, hums an air, Then yawns, and stretches in his chair.
Beneath my feet the waters beat, and ripple on the polished stones, The squirrel chatters from his seat; the bag-pipe beetlehums and drones.
He hums a merry song and strolls, And tracks this pretty pair o' soles-- His heart is full of glee!
There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
The coals beneath the kettle croon, And clap their hands and dance in glee; And even the kettle hums a tune To tell you when it's time for tea.
The squirrel chatters from his seat: the bag-pipe beetle hums and drones.
It sings in my sleeping ears, It hums in my waking head, The name--Ticonderoga, The utterance of the dead.
I'll affect indifference--[Hums a tune; then listens.
And, what was even more outrageous to Humsideas of propriety, it was rumored that the brides were to walk home from the Church in company with their husbands!
With the exception of a few mud-built villages along the east and near the city, there is no settled population between Hums and Palmyra.
Hums early became the seat of a Christian Church, and in the reign of Diocletian, its bishop, Silvanus, suffered martyrdom.
The houses of Hums are built around a square area into which all the rooms open, and the open space or court of the mission-house was very large.
The wild roving Bedawin sweep the vast plains in every direction, and only a few years ago, the great gates ofHums were frequently closed at midday to prevent the incursion of these rough robbers of the desert.
Men, women and children were laughing and talking, shouting and screaming to one another, and discussing the extraordinary innovation on Hums customs about to be enacted.
No Methodist exhorter ever evoked more hearty responses, than did this address, from the Hums populace.
He found credulous followers among the more ignorant, and went to Hums to practice his diabolical trade.
She hums and beats gently, then restores the tambourine to the sleepy TIBBY, who, waking, has placed a piece of apple in her mouth.
TIBBY begins her drowsy beating, IVY hums the tune; they dance, and their shadows dance again upon the walls.
Meanwhile she hums an air and conveys the impression of being happier than in the previous Acts.
White stockings and little low shoes; her footsteps shoot forward like the narrow-leaved bine of some swiftly growing plant, and she hums in time to her walk.
Kasper is so fascinated that involuntarily he hums as well, but wakes with a start of fright at hearing his own rough voice.
The brain hums feverishly: all nature awaits the explosion of the gathering forces, the thud of the hammer which is slowly rising to fall back suddenly on the anvil of the clouds.
Inez Catheron's dauntless black eyes look up at the white, countless stars as she softly hums a tune.
Illustration: Here hums the wild bee in the thyme] [Illustration] VII.
Here hums the wild-bee in the thyme, Here glows the royal heather; And youth comes back upon the breeze, And youth's unclouded weather.
It is too hushed, too steady--it hums and hums and hums.
So long as Billy Warlock can keep himself above ground, so long will that old house keep him company, and so long will his forges blow fiery sparks in the cellar, while he hammers and hums and hums and hammers on the anvil by his side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
