"Hollo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that ex-sophist hugely; for, great as he was, and self-denying as he was, he always had a hankering after the dialectic flesh-pots. How he would have rubbed his hands, when Clarian wanted to persuade us that the herb Pantagruelion was no other than Haschish, the expander of souls!—Hollo! yonder goes the lad now. I wonder what he is up to. See him, Ned, yonder, just coming out of the shadow of North College. How fast he walks! how he is swinging his arms! I'll bet he is repeating poetry. I wonder what the lad is after, anyhow.—There he goes, round the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various
... 'Hollo, I'll give you a shilling for 'em!' was the unlooked-for conclusion, causing her to start aside with a slight scream, as there stood beside her a stout, black-eyed, round-faced lad, his ruddy cheeks and loutish air showing more rusticity than agreed with his keen, saucy ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... went into the chief's wigwam, after shaking hands with the old chief and his squaw, Carson pulled some of the jewelry out of his pocket and told the chief that he wanted to trade for furs. The old chief stepped to the entrance of the wigwam and made a peculiar noise between a whistle and a hollo, and in a few minutes there were hundreds of Indians there, both bucks ...
— Chief of Scouts • W.F. Drannan
... "Eh! hollo, by the way! I've not heard of what went on last night! So you went to 'em? Well—tell us all that happened—and nothing but the truth, be sure you don't; come, Titty!" said Huckaback, snuffing the candle, and then turning eagerly ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren
... Several Marylanders of the half-price age—under twelve—come gaping up to see us harmless invaders. Each of these young gentry is armed with a dead spring frog, perhaps by way of tribute. And here—hollo! here comes Horace Greeley in propria persona! He marches through our groups with the Greeley walk, the Greeley hat on the back of his head, the Greeley white coat on his shoulders, his trousers much too short, and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 44, June, 1861 • Various
... "Hollo!" cried Max, in a perfectly good-humored tone, "what do you lock a fellow out for? It looks as if you're up to some mischief. I just came to tell you there's company in the parlor, and they've asked ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley
... "Hollo, Jennings! what the devil made you give that start? you couldn't look more horrified if ghosts were at your elbow: why, your face is the picture of death; look another way, man, do, ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper |
Words linked to "Hollo" : call out, scream, outcry, roar, yowl, shout, ululate, exclaim, bellowing, yawl, halloo, let out, call, skreak, squall, pipe, holler, shout out, bellow, screak, utter, squawk, yell, emit, whoop, holla, cry, screech, roaring, holloa, let loose, shriek, cry out, vociferation, pipe up, hurrah, shrill, yaup, wail |
