Quotes About Hiss
Acting on a praetor's complaint, he had a comedian named Hylas publicly scourged in the hall of his own residence; and expelled Pylades not only from Rome, but from Italy too, because when a spectator started to hiss, he called the attention of the whole audience to him with an obscene movement of his middle finger.
~ Suetonius
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The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowned'.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
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Kane, north hallway." With a nod, Kane swerved at the next corner. One of the lightbulbs in the chandelier shattered the moment he did so, spraying glass in every direction. There was a hiss, a muttered curse. Then, of course, another bulb exploded. Disaster. Couldn't take him anywhere
~ Gena Showalter
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Yes, I'm a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends," said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore a off a piece with his teeth and noticed Boots hadn't moved. He pulled back his lips to reveal a row of jagged teeth and gave her a sharp hiss.
~ Suzanne Collins
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And then he let out a predatory hiss— —and bit her so hard she had to hold back a curse. Now
~ J.R. Ward
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
~ Aesop
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Hello, companion," said Magnus. The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss. "I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship," said Magnus.
~ Cassandra Clare
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Mean as yellow jackets, dumb as dirt. He sighed, the sharp exhale like the hiss of the plants all around.
~ Laura Ruby
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That dying child, that wasn't us, so don't you cuss and don't you dare Cross-the-sprites-and-curse-their-spite-and-make-your-hand-a-stony-fist. You can't punch us, We don't exist, We're only mist, And that was just the wind that hissed.
~ Cressida Cowell
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Earlier that year, at the hundredth anniversary of his Harvard club, a member was talking about the spirit of Harvard College and saying how glad he was that the school had produced neither "a Joseph McCarthy or an Alger Hiss." On hearing that coupling, Kennedy jumped from his chair. "How dare you compare the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor!" and left the room. As for his father, the very thought
~ Chris Matthews
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The hiss was now becoming a roar—the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow—but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.
~ Conrad Aiken
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Every time our cat tries to hiss she has all choked up. That's what she gets for being mean!
~ Unknown
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With a pneumatic hiss, the door slid open. Brother John says the hiss is not an inevitable consequence of the operation of the door. It could have been made to open silently. He incorporated the hiss to remind himself that in every human enterprise, no matter with what virtuous intentions it is undertaken, a serpent lurks.
~ Dean Koontz
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Then he spotted the ship's cat, sprawled lazily in the sun streaming through the stern windows; he bared his teeth and made a face, the cat fled, and the admiral burst out laughing. "Kitty, kitty, kitty!" Sir Graham coaxed, scowling playfully at the cat, who now glared at him from beneath the safety of Colin's desk. A loud, angry hiss met his summons, and, again, the admiral's rich, booming laughter filled the cabin.
~ Unknown
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Book X ... Satan arrives at Pandemonium; in full assembly relates, with boasting, his success against Man; instead of applause is entertained with a general hiss by all his audience, transformed, with himself also, suddenly into serpents, according to his doom given in paradise; then, deluded with a show of the forbidden tree springing up before them, they, greedily reaching to take of the fruit, chew dust and bitter ashes...
~ John Milton
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