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Hollo   Listen
interjection
Hollo  interj., n.  Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo. "And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo."






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"Hollo" Quotes from Famous Books



... treasure up! But why such long prolusion and display, Such turning and adjustment of the harp, And taking it upon your breast, at length, Only to speak dry words across its strings? Stark-naked thought is in request enough: 10 Speak prose and hollo it till Europe hears! The six-foot Swiss tube, braced about with bark, Which helps the hunter's voice from Alp to Alp— Exchange our ...
— Men and Women • Robert Browning

... "Why, hollo!" shouted the artist. "What's the matter with my landlord? I was going to strip for a swim. Has he turned mad? I thought he was going to ...
— Will of the Mill • George Manville Fenn

... suffered terrible things, the stranger has escaped me, who was lately coerced in bonds. Hollo! here is the man; what is this? how do you appear near my house, ...
— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides

... the world death-free We wind-embodied roam, I hear the gale that once was thee Cry "Hollo!" I ...
— Path Flower and Other Verses • Olive T. Dargan

... "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 for ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley

... thought he heard Toole's well-known, brisk voice, under his windows, exclaim, 'What is the dirty beggar doing there? faugh!—he smells all over like carrion—ha, ha ha!' and looking out, in his dream, from his drawing-room window, he saw a squalid mendicant begging alms at his hall-door. 'Hollo, you, Sir; what do want there?' cried the surgeon, with a sort of unaccountable antipathy and fear. 'He lost his last shilling in the great bankruptcy, in October,' answered Dunstan's voice behind his ear; and in the earth-coloured face which the beggar turned up towards him, Sturk recognised ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu



Words linked to "Hollo" :   bellow, screech, scream, yell, wail, holloa, emit, roar, holler, skreigh, yaup, screak, squall, skreak, shrill, halloo, encourage, cry, yowl, yawl, let loose, squawk, vociferation, shriek, cry out, exclaim, outcry, utter, hollering, let out



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