Either way, our government seems more interested in hushing up its own misdeeds than either keeping us safe or serving justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

"I am 'hushing' just as hard as I can," whispered the girl in return, and smiling a little now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference

"Hark!" she said, hushing the singing with her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way] Reference

Holding her and Julia, hushing them, even I trembled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

The children huddle behind him, hushing their screams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference

Here in they take an infinite pleasure, hushing up their.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference

The baby fussed again and she spent a moment hushing her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Cissy were a baby and she her mother, hushing her to sleep!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference

In the hearts of the hushing bells, as from island to island.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference

Orpheus hushing all animated nature to calm by the magic of his song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cord and Creese] Reference

Then I heard a child's high voice, and a deep familiar voice hushing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door Through Space] Reference

Inside, by the light of a candle, Sister Constance sat, hushing to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

The temporary hushing of the long-continued quarrels of the Catholics and.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Even on a bright morning, with birds in song, there are hushing whispers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

Blair made urgent hushing motions as though Sharpe disturbed a sacred assembly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

She rose with a pale smile and, hushing my protestations, arrived at her conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28] Reference

After that -- silence, an immense hushing silence, -- settled down over the parsonage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

At last aunt Hannah appeared, hushing the mirth as night shadows drink up the sunshine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

But it is interesting that Syria didn't press the matter, thus hushing up more on this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2007] Reference

Seedlings twirled around in the air, letting themselves be carried away by the hushing wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn] Reference

She stared toward the door, crooning to the child and hushing it; midway she stopped, suddenly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pudd'nhead Wilson] Reference

His voice through the storm, hushing her spirit, and saying to her, as He did to them, "It is I; be not afraid.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference

From what I can gather, you have been hushing the Baronet at the expence of your own and Miss Warley's quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barford Abbey] Reference

It seems to me that there are probably attorneys there hush-hushing something because I have three teenage boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2009] Reference

And then she rocked back and forward, as if to make it sleep, hushing it, and wasting on it her infinite fondness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

The storm continued all night long, but the beautiful sleeper heard it only as a lullaby hushing her to sweet repose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference

From elsewhere in the cottage, I heard a child's voice uplifted in querulous complaint, and Amzil's irritable hushing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Sometimes he could hear them whispering to one another, hushing quickly in the rare moments when the street went quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dirty Job HTML]

All night she was attending to the sick and hushing the suckling, with a consciousness that our last shilling was going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

“What …?” he started to say, but she put a firm finger to his lips, hushing him as she tucked her body against his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impossible Places]

But something startlingly new came to him in that exquisite "sound of gentle stillness," hushing, awing, mellowing, giving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

The big red-headed woman, considerably lowered in note, stepped inside the door of the sick-room, hushing the child in her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

It was a strange pause on the edge of the platform, Joe thought, like two murderers hushing themselves for midwives in the next room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

The farmer's wife, Mary Sullivan, heard the whole as she sat hushing her infant to rest; and from the open casement she watched the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference