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  • There are enough Special Forces and submarines involved to keep anyone with a military interest yelling "hoora" by the end of novel.

    By Dawn's Early Light digitaldoc 2006

  • There are enough Special Forces and submarines involved to keep anyone with a military interest yelling "hoora" by the end of novel.

    Archive 2006-03-01 digitaldoc 2006

  • I had this dream, a co-op was passed, great hoora, and these people were running these co-ops, and in the third year, they went to a big convention in Bermuda.

    Wonk Room » Uwe’s Nightmare: Why Co-ops Will Be Crushed By Private Insurers 2009

  • And I cried out: ` Shabash, mem-sahib! 'and ` Heep-heep-heep-hoora', as the sahibs do, to comfort her.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Alustuseks saab Marîd kolme mõrtsukaliku ja sõgeda hoora nn.

    George Alec Effinger «When Gravity Fails» Ulmeguru 2007

  • And I cried out: ` Shabash, mem-sahib! 'and ` Heep-heep-heep-hoora', as the sahibs do, to comfort her.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • And I cried out: ‘Shabash, mem-sahib!’ and ‘Heep-heep-heep-hoora’, as the sahibs do, to comfort her.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • The Pats begin to hoora too, thinking it was a runaway; and first lot on 'em stands grinnin 'and wavin' their old hats as we comes abreast on 'em; and then you'd ha 'laughed to see how took aback and choking savage they looked, when they gets the peas a-stinging all over' em.

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • There was a shout from the top of the hill, and a smothered response from below, then a clearer shout, and at last a full-toned hoora.

    Margaret 1851

  • He’s got a punim that would gag a maggot, but I plan to invite him to my son Heshie’s barmitzvah so we can all dance the hoora on Palestinian corpses.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bauer Against Mitchell 2009

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