Potential Titles: Hiss

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Where no fatal adder hisses - John Philip Bourke "The Pilgrimage"

Fall hot on all the hissing scorns - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The hissing flames of civil war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Shall serpent-friendship rise to hiss and sting - "Corn Is King" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

A reared and hissing crest - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"

All its arrowy hissing atoms - Louise Imogen Guiney "Late Peace"

Crawl on hissing ground - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"

Hiss like Medusa's vipers in the breast - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"

The sputter and fizz of joy-hissing stars - Hailey Leithauser "Boys of L.A."

An animated hiss and whistling wail - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"

And taught the adolescent Serpent how to hiss - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

The hiss of empty air swirling past - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


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