holloing

And then, just as the fruit-plates were put on the table, came a call, and the doctor was out in the hall, "holloing" and conducting with some distant patient one of those mysterious telephonic conversations which to those who overhear seem all replies and no questions.

Clover Susan Coolidge 1870

"First I must keep my promise to the engineer," says J.B., and off he went to the train, his rifle cradled in his arm and his sword trailing in the mud, holloing to the engineer that he might get up steam.

THE NUMBERS 2010

“The bride-day, you say, is to be on the thirtieth of the instant month?” said Sir Mungo, holloing after the citizen; “I will be with you in the hour of cause.”

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

"First I must keep my promise to the engineer," says J.B., and off he went to the train, his rifle cradled in his arm and his sword trailing in the mud, holloing to the engineer that he might get up steam.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

"First I must keep my promise to the engineer," says J.B., and off he went to the train, his rifle cradled in his arm and his sword trailing in the mud, holloing to the engineer that he might get up steam.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

'Instead of holloing and shouting and beating it with a stick, you should just stoop down and catch the eye of the cratur, and sure he will go the way you want.'

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

The pale, lantern-jawed youths, in yellow waistcoats and tall shirt-collars, who look as if they were about to whistle a match, are holloing out what is professionally, and in this instance with most distressing truth, termed counter.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

I was half angry; but resolved to keep up the good humour of the company; and after holloing as loud as I could possibly, I drank off a bumper of claret, that made me stare again.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

A band played airs which the bandmaster considered suitable to the occasion, the troops, swarming on the railings and the rigging, sang lustily snatches of song; and finally, amidst the fortissimo strains of the National Anthem, a wild holloing from every one, and a bellowing of fog-horns, the ships drew slowly away from the wharf.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

He had then found quite ineffective the "whooping, holloing gentlemen soldiers" of the volunteer force of the colony among whom

Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence George McKinnon Wrong 1904