Wasn't the seeker

Usage examples of hid.

There was something about his manner, the movement of his eyes, the quality of his smile, that reminded her of the toads that hid in the mud during the rainy season, only their eyes showing as they lurked for bugs.

Okumichi took the shorter of the two swords from the stand, hid it under his coat, and left.

I passed by the passage leading to the saloon and hid behind a ventilator.

I left him threshing there, dying there, and swam up and hid under the deck-head of the hold.

Cornhill and Lombard Street flashed back upon him for a second, then dived away and hid their faces for ever, as he passed the low grey wall beside the church where first he had seen the lame boy hobbling, and had realised that the whole world suffered.

And, as he walked there, so softly that he hardly disturbed the thrushes that busily tapped the dewy grass for supper, he knew suddenly that he was not alone, but that shadowy figures hid everywhere, watching, waiting, wondering like himself.

He imagined she hid behind that little dusty constellation called the Pleiades, and that was why the Pleiades wore a veil and were so dim-- lest he should find her out.

He drew his sister back quickly a dozen steps, and they hid behind a giant spruce to watch.

At the same moment she took his heart and hid it deep away among her tumbling hair.

A moment later he came back from the corner where he had hid himself to examine it.

But she only held the centre of the stage a minute, for Monkey entered at her heels, bursting with delight in a long green macintosh thrown over another tweed skirt that hid her feet and even trailed behind.

And, as usual, the saucer told them exactly what they had desired to know, suggested ways and means that hid already in the mind of one or other, yet in stammered sentences that included just enough surprise or turn of phrase to confirm their faith and save their self-respect.

In all directions shot the threads of coming darkness, spun from the huge body of Night that still hid invisible below the horizon.

They wear a mysterious and secret look, and their shoulders have a sly turn, as though they hid their heads in the daytime and stirred about their business only after dark.

Like exquisite music heard from very far away, it left its thrill of beauty and of wonder, then hid behind the breath of wind that brought it.