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  • View Comments evoe yeah it´s very unlikely, they cast outside NZ.

    Want to be in THE HOBBIT? – Collider.com 2009

  • We have sung to you the jovial chorus of Evoe, evoe, and you will neither worship Comus nor Bacchus!

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Well, he was wandering, you bet, whatever was his matter, in his mind too, give him his due, for I am sorry to have to tell you, hullo and evoe, they were coming down from off him. —

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Pan his left wing; his colonels and captains were the satyrs, and the word for the day _evoe.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • He noticed nothing until the buzz round the table suddenly ceased, and the notes of his own voice, with its soft low-toned triumph, "Evoe, evoe!" fell in startling isolation.

    Romola George Eliot 1849

  • Their cheeks glowed, their eyes glared; they resembled Bacchantes circling the god of riotous joviality with their shouts of "Evoe! evoe!"

    Henry VIII and His Court Henry Niles Pierce 1843

  • _Evoe, evoe, _ and you will neither worship Comus nor Bacchus!

    Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

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  • evoe, evhoe, evohe, or euoi (interj) expressing Bacchic frenzy.

    -Chambers 13th dict.

    December 28, 2015