The Bombay shop-keeper commences by asking an exorbitant price for his commodities; our Memon retorts by offering the least they could possibly fetch; and the battle between the maximum and the minimum eventually settles itself somewhere about the golden mean, whereupon the Memon HIES him homewards as full of satisfaction as Thackeray's Jew.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
From the house of the foe He HIES with thee.
"Stories of the Wagner Opera"
H. A. Guerber
She HIES her then to Lethe spring, A bottle and thereof doth bring, Wherewith she meant to work the thing Which only she intended.
"The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'"
Compiled by Frank Sidgwick