Hush

(noun.) (poetic) tranquil silence; 'the still of the night'.

(verb.) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals.

(verb.) wash by removing particles; 'Wash ores'.

(verb.) become quiet or still; fall silent; 'hush my baby!'.

(verb.) cause to be quiet or not talk; 'Please silence the children in the church!'.

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• Hush, hush, ma'am; pray keep yourself quiet,' replied the bodyguard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But there was a scandalized whisper of 'Hush! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But perhaps he was speaking now; there was a momentary hush of their noise, inarticulate as that of a troop of animals. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Hush, hush, my dear love! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Hush, she whispered. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Hush, Hannah! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I smiled; but I also hushed a groan. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Everybody was hushed into a profound stillness as the individual addressed, replied-- 'Sir! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She stood, shrinkingly, before him, as if she were afraid to meet his eyes; but her passionate sorrow was quite hushed and mute. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Yes, yes; but they want the thing hushed up, and I understand that the young fellow is going out of the neighborhood. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• In another hour all the dwelling-house, and all the pensionnat, were dark and hushed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• When the little child awoke, and when and how Charley got at it, took it out of bed, and began to walk about hushing it, I don't know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Dead darkness lay on all the landscape, dead darkness added its own hush to the hushing dust on all the roads. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• That morning I was disposed for silence: the austere fury of the winter-day had on me an awing, hushing influence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• A pause of some seconds succeeded, filled up by the low, vague hum of numbers; Miss Miller walked from class to class, hushing this indefinite sound. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• There was some hushing, and the Judge went on with what he had to say to the rest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman down from London to inquire more deeply into it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• There is something in boldness and determination that for a time hushes even the rudest nature. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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