Citations:hind

English citations of hind

• a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Amaryllis. A Pastoral.”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 690:

  ’Tis now noon-day, the Sun is mounted high,
  Beneath refreshing shades the beasts do lie,
  And seek out cooling rivers to asswage,
  The Lion’s sultry heat, and Dog-Star’s rage:
  The Oxen now can’t plow the fruitful soil,
  The furious heat forbids the reaper’s toil.
  Both beast and men for work are now unfit,
  The weary’d Hinds down to their dinner sit;
  Each creature now is with refreshment blest,
  And none but wretched I, debarr’d of rest,
  I wander up and down thro’ desart lands,
  On sun-burnt mountain-tops, and parched sands.

• 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 41:

  The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.

• 1884, James E. Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, page 170:

• When the hinds were hired by the year, they received a quarter of corn...
• Such hinds were undoubtedly single men.

• 1931 — ... that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind, who am your son as well as he! — Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
• 1931 — I have labored and have grown rich and I would have my wife look less like a hind. — Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
• 1931 — “And am I always to look like a hind when we have enough and to spare?” — Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
• 1931 — It is not meet that we go on living in the country like hinds and we could go and we could leave my uncle and his wife and my cousin here ... — Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
• 1931 — ‘There is a man who makes his son into a hind while he lives like a prince.’ — Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth