halloo

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"Halloo, old fire-belcher! I am Beowulf, come to quench you!"

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

"Halloo, youngsters! tired of the cave?" he asked.

From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Spalding, Henry S.

Halloo, hal-lōō′, n. a hunting cry: a cry to draw attention.—v.i. to cry after dogs: to raise an outcry.—v.t. to encourage or chase with shouts.—interjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

After the boy has stumbled across the ploughed ground, and is fairly over the fence, Uncle Lot calls,— "Halloo, there, you little rascal! what are you goin' off without the hoe for?"

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

In an instant the cabin door opened, and a red-faced, coarse-looking fellow, in uniform, called out,— "Halloo, there! is that a piper?"

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James