Lexicographical Neighbors of Hilloa
Literary usage of Hilloa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission from Country by Thomas Keightley (1834)
"or "hilloa! hilloa! harkye :" then answers the other from above, "hilloa! hilloa!
what do you want ... hilloa! hilloa ! come over to me."—" hilloa ! hilloa! ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Edward Vaughan Kenealy by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1878)
"... Wouldst thou have Him forgive — because they're dead — Wretches whose lives
on earth but imaged Hell I Now then, to cross the Styx — hilloa ! hilloa ! ..."
3. Goethe: A New Pantomime by Edward Vaughan Kenealy (1850)
"Now then, to cross the Styx — hilloa ! hilloa ! You rascal dead who wish to pass
this way ! hilloa! hilloa! hilloa! hilloa! I say. ..."
4. The Rhine, Legends, Traditions, History, from Cologne to Mainz by Joseph Snowe (1839)
"hilloa I ho 1" The ferryman made no reply to this suspicious hail, but pushed
off his boat from ... "hilloa I ferry I" was again repeated in a sterner key. ..."
5. The Rhine, Legends, Traditions, History, from Cologne to Mainz by Joseph Snowe (1839)
"hilloa ! ferry!" again hailed a voice from the shore he was making. " hilloa !
ho !" The ferryman made no reply to this suspicious hail, but pushed off his ..."
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