coo-ee

If he found what he thought a suitable opening, there was certain not to be a house within coo-ee fit for them to live in.

Ultima Thule 2003

It would be an exhibition of hopeless vanity to attempt to describe the many varieties of coral and fish and crabs and strange grotesque creatures low in the scale of life which are unceasingly at work within “coo-ee.”

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

For no living thing but themselves moved on the miles of desolate beach; not a neighbour was within coo-ee; their own shack lay hid behind a hill.

Growing Pains 2003

By the time the Spaniards arrived in the 1500s, the "cuy" (pronounced "coo-ee," like the faint cry it makes) was a major food from Argentina to the Caribbean.

15 Agouti 1991

In wild excitement he coo-eed again, his very loudest this time; and again came the reply, scarcely more distinct, and more like a cry than a coo-ee.

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

There was still that answering coo-ee to be accounted for.

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

Being in possession of these facts, therefore, we must not be induced to believe that deep-sea fishing is not possible, simply because suitable grounds for trawling, &c., may not be actually within coo-ee of the Australian metropolitan centres.

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

Again the coo-ee cut through the air, but Eustace covered his face with his hands and dropped dejectedly back on the ground.

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

"I've been standing up there," he complained, "for three or four minutes calling coo-ee, and you never answered once!"

Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

If his horse was shot dead under him he coo-eed to his mates, and kept his rifle busy, and every time the coo-ee rang out over the whispering veldt the Australians turned in their saddles, and riding as the men from the South-land can ride, they dashed to the rescue, and did not leave a single man in the hands of the enemy.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales