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"ref": "1838, William Gilmore Simms, “The Cherokee Embassage”, in Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story, with Other Tales of Imagination, volume 2, New York: George Adlard, pages 187–188:",
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"text": "She was afraid that her faint cry would not be heard, but at least one member of the group responded to it, for there was an answering halloo, and a small figure detached itself from the rest and darted forward.",
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"A shout of halloo."
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"word": "halloo before one is out of the wood"
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"word": "view halloo"
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"ref": "c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
"text": "For voice—I have lost it with hallooing and singing of anthems.",
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"ref": "1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, pages 310-311:",
"text": "[…] they set up two or three great Shouts, hollowing with all their might, to try if they could make their Companions hear; but all was to no purpose:",
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"ref": "1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:",
"text": "As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again.",
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"ref": "1907, William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the \"Glen Carrig\":",
"text": "As we ran, we hallooed, and so came upon the boy, and I saw that he had my sword.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins And Cheese To Come:",
"text": "We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper.",
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"(intransitive) To shout halloo."
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"ref": "1692, Richard Davis, Truth and Innocency Vindicated against Falshood & Malice, London: Nath. and Robert Ponder, page 6:",
"text": "There is no place left to suspect, but that there were Managers of the Party, who clap’d their hands, and halloo’d the giddy young People to such rash Undertakings.",
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"text": "1718, Matthew Prior, Alma, or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto 2, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: J. Tonson and J. Barber, Volume 2, p. 101,\nOld JOHN halloo’s his hounds again:"
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"ref": "1735, George Berkeley, A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, London: J. Tonson, page 12:",
"text": "“Let us burn or hang up all the Mathematicians in Great Britain, or halloo the mob upon them to tear them to pieces every Mother’s Son of them […]”",
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"ref": "1838, William Gilmore Simms, “The Cherokee Embassage”, in Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story, with Other Tales of Imagination, volume 2, New York: George Adlard, pages 187–188:",
"text": "He played with Jacko like a child—rolled with him about the decks—hallooed him on to all manner of mischief—clapped his hands and cheered him in his performance, and then, in his own language, pronounced a high eulogy upon his achievements.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1915, Frederick Scott Oliver, chapter 3, in Ordeal by Battle, London: Macmillan, page 29:",
"text": "It is not credible that Germany was blind to the all-but-inevitable results of letting Austria loose to range around, of hallooing her on, and of comforting her with assurances of loyal support.",
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"(transitive) To encourage with shouts; to egg (someone) on."
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"ref": "c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene viii]:",
"text": "If I fly, Coriolanus,\nHolloa me like a hare.",
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"ref": "1694, Robert Ferguson, A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, London, page 8:",
"text": "[…] the unhappy Man was halloo’d and persued to Death […]",
"type": "quote"
},
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"ref": "1915, E. D. Cuming, Fox and Hounds, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 7:",
"text": "Now, if you can keep your brother sportsmen in order, and put any discretion into them, you are in luck; they more frequently do harm than good: if it be possible, persuade those who wish to halloo the fox off, to stand quiet under the cover-side, and on no account to halloo him too soon […]",
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"(transitive) To chase with shouts or outcries."
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"ref": "1955, W. H. Auden, “Lakes”, in Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden, New York: Modern Library, published 1959, page 149:",
"text": "A lake allows an average father, walking slowly,\nTo circumvent it in an afternoon,\nAnd any healthy mother to halloo the children\nBack to her bedtime from their games across:",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1974, James Purdy, The House of the Solitary Maggot, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 300:",
"text": "She pulled her vehicle to an abrupt stop, and then hallooed him.",
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"ref": "c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:",
"text": "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills\nAnd make the babbling gossip of the air\nCry out ‘Olivia!’",
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"ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 177:",
"text": "[…] the servants halloo'd out their excuses from the kitchen.",
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