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Hello  interj., n.  An exclamation used as a greeting, to call attention, as an exclamation of surprise, or to encourage one. This variant of Halloo and Holloo has become the dominant form. In the United States, it is the most common greeting used in answering a telephone.






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"Hello" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Hello! Captain," I said presently, pointing to some sails coming up rapidly behind us. "What's this? I thought we'd got the ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne

... way, I reckon," said Cheyenne Charlie. "But, hello! Ther miners is quittin' work. Now we'll soon see how many of 'em knows us, as ther ...
— Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" - and, How Arietta Paid the Toll • An Old Scout

... "Hello, darling Cally! Do come in and share our lovely little snuggery. Isn't it cunning?—don't you think we were awfully smart to find it? Oh, do ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... an article once on how—Hello! Serena calling. I have a very important message for the military officer in command of the cordon. Will you route me ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... "Hello, Henry! I thought I wouldn't start in working till you got here. I didn't want to haf to come all the way downstairs again to open the door and hi'st our good ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington

... "Hello, here's the Lodge beauty in all her loveliness," she said, welcoming Doris Leighton with a cordial handshake. "Come, Doris, let's grab the future prima donna and tote her to the ball-room. I don't believe she'll ...
— Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge • Pemberton Ginther

... "Hello," said Barrows. "See your crop's coming along pretty well. Can't figure how you do it. You've got acres and acres to tend, far's I can see, and I'm having a hell of a time with one little piece of ground. I swear you must know something about this ...
— The Helpful Robots • Robert J. Shea

... long body lashed and writhed, Nicko looked down at it with a kind of compassion. "Good-bye, little sister." Nicko looked over at Mike in assumed surprise. "Was my pretty cousin bothering you? She only wanted to say hello." ...
— Before Egypt • E. K. Jarvis

... "Hello," cried Mollie's sweet voice. She waved a long blue scarf toward Ruth and Bab. Mollie and Elmer Wilson were standing on the lawn, examining the motto on the sun dial. It read, "I ...
— The Automobile Girls At Washington • Laura Dent Crane

... journey from Chicago and we reached the desert town of Adamana. As the train stopped near the little inn, a voice called out in the darkness, "Hello, Johnnie, ...
— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... "Hello, First Mortgage!" cried Jim Carpenter as I entered in response to his call. "I'm glad to see you. Excuse the bruskness of my first greeting to you over the telephone, but the press have been deviling me all day, every man jack of them trying to steal a march on the rest. I ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 • Various

... "Hello! gents!" called the officer, with his hands forming a megaphone, so that his voice might carry the more readily. "I'm the sheriff of this heah county; and this is my posse. We's huntin' a desprit convict that got loose from the camp a week ...
— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne

... right, Butler," he called out. "Come right in. Hello! Where are you?" He stepped to the door and looked out. Mr. Butler was being conducted toward the stage door by the burly stage hand. He was trying to expostulate. "Hi! What you doing?" shouted Harvey, darting after them. "Let ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon

... attorney for the Denver City Tramway Company, came shouldering in to see us—a heavy-jowled, heavy-waisted, red-faced bulk of good-humour—looking as if he had just walked out of a political cartoon. "Hello, boys," he said jovially. "How's she going? Making a record for yourselves up in court, eh? Making a ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various

... sent the telegram, "When do you return?" When he arrived we were all in the hall, but he didn't take the slightest notice of me. Presently, we went in to lunch. He sat opposite to me, and about halfway through the meal, he said, "Hello, Orpen! I didn't see you before." To which I replied, "You have the advantage over me, sir. I don't remember ever having seen you before." It was no good. We would never have made ...
— An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 • William Orpen

... out in a steeplechase to avoid striking another horse? I have heard of a man pulling out to avoid killing his own horse; but that boy pulled out because his horse refused. That horse had more sense than he. He knew he could n't take it. Hello! what 's he doing?" For young Johnston, his face set hard, had turned his horse and headed him again toward the jump. At that moment the other horses were rising the slope on top of which was the next jump, and the brown caught sight of them. He had appeared till now a little bewildered; ...
— Bred In The Bone - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page

... squire, I went down into the village to buy some 'bacca. Just as I got back to the gate, out runs a boy. It was too dark for me to see his face, but I naturally supposed it were Reuben, so I said, 'Hello, Reuben, how's the leg?' But the moment I spoke, he turned off from the path ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

... That 'nother country no good belonga me. Me think me die. Me walk alonga sandy beach. Some time alonga b-i-g fella rock. Me close up tumble down altogether. Me tired. B'mbi catch'm Liberfool Crik (Liverpool Creek). Plenty fella sit down. He bin sing out, 'Hello! You come back from that place?' Me bin say 'Yes; that country ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... "Hello!" said the voice of Farmer Brown's boy. "These are queer tracks! That Skunk must have had a queer tail, for here are the marks of it in the snow, and they look as if they might have been made by the tail of a ...
— The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum • Thornton W. Burgess

... "Hello, there," cried Uncle Ted, cheerily, "the danger is over, I think, but we have no stairs left to descend upon. The boys are bringing ladders, however, and I think, with care, we can all get down safely. But as my wife's sprained ankle is scarcely sound enough as yet to trust her on a ladder, I ...
— Patty Fairfield • Carolyn Wells

... stopped whistling, whipped off his cap and greeted her, "Hello, Sis. I thought that would bring you if you were about. Oh, don't look so tickled over my politeness—I just took off my hat because I'm hot. This walk from the trolley on a day ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... "Hello, children!" he cried. "Oh, ho! So this is the trouble; eh?" he went on. "I wondered why no water was running down into my chicken yard, and I came to see what had stopped up my brook. It's ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm • Laura Lee Hope

... "Hello, Bullen! you surely do not intend to traverse the wilderness in full fig.?" cried Sir William, who had come down to speed his guests. "You seem to forget that much of your way may traverse the country of an enemy, for whose rifles your ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore

... "Hello! hello there, Miriam! what's eating you now?" shouted the foreman, emerging and scrambling to his feet as he turned to get Bessie started. But the strange old creature only grinned wider and screeched, "Yi! yi!" ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson

... mopped up moisture with a sly grey rag. No nonsense about them. This was the rush hour. Hungry men from the shops and offices and garages of the district were bent on food (not badinage). They ate silently, making a dull business of it. Coffee? What kinda pie do you want? No fooling here. "Hello, Jessie." ...
— Gigolo • Edna Ferber

... "Beastly luck!" he exclaimed. "Hello, Ruyler. Didn't know you honored parties any more. I had to break away to meet the Overland train—beastly thing was late, of course. Then I had to take them to five hotels before I could settle them. They had two beastly little dogs and ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... NICHOLLS (confusedly). Hello, Eileen. I'm so sorry to—— (Clumsily trying to cover up his confusion, he goes over and leads her to a chair.) You must sit down. You've got to take care of yourself. You never ought to have got ...
— The Straw • Eugene O'Neill

... 'cut and run,' and rode on trains in every direction as long as his money held out. Then he stole the ride that ended his travels right here in Denver. Hello! where's Dad?" ...
— Dorothy on a Ranch • Evelyn Raymond

... "Hello, Jack," said the saloonkeeper, when he entered—they call all foreigners and unskilled men "Jack" in Packingtown. ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

... are on the right track, Queenie?" he said, addressing his animal, as was his custom when they were alone. "It would be strange if we didn't drift away from our bearings. Hello! that can't be Dick Hawkridge's ranch; we haven't gone far enough for that; but what the mischief can it be, unless a fire that some one ...
— Cowmen and Rustlers • Edward S. Ellis

... Mr. Gordon! Hello, Tom! Back from college, are you? The books and papers? They are over in the vaults of the Iron City National—by Mr. Farley's orders. I suppose he thought they'd be safer there in case of fire. Won't you sit down and have ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... want to go down stream, I shall have to slide the boat down the overshoot. Better go up, and then you'll have the stream with you coming back. Hello, here's some ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn

... high," the captain went on, one word tripping the other in the eagerness of his speech. "March right in. Don't stop for anything. Get close to the parapet. Look at the British boys; throw them 'Hello, guys!' and begin to ...
— Private Peat • Harold R. Peat

... half-heartedly, her pale face quickly resuming its unhappy expression as if it tired her facial muscles when she smiled. "Hello, Ed. Nice to ...
— Compatible • Richard R. Smith

... would," said Jimmy. "Hello, there's Chicken Little crying again. He's more of a baby ...
— Jimmy, Lucy, and All • Sophie May

... of sprouting potatoes, blinked up apathetically into the sudden flood of sweet, spring air and sunshine. "Why, hello, Billy Louise," he mumbled, his eyes brightening ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower

... hello girl, however, had erred in the case of Whitney Barnes, for this is the way his end of the conversation in ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie

... "Hello." His voice was a weak whistle, and perhaps it did not reach the furry-faced one, for he continued his questions if questions they were. Meanwhile Ross, over his first stupefaction, tried to see something of the creature's background. Though the objects were slightly out of focus, he was ...
— The Time Traders • Andre Norton

... "Hello, you've broken something!" cried Glutts. "Maybe it's a bottle. I wouldn't put it past 'em to put one in there, thinking you ...
— The Rover Boys Under Canvas - or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine • Arthur M. Winfield

... "Hello I'm Elizabeth! I'm sorry I was such a hassle last week, and thank you for trying to take care of me so well. I was too sick to know any better." She said she had gone out our back door the week before and crawled under a pile of fallen leaves on the ground in our back yard with ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... and grinned lazily. "Hello, pardner! I was dreamin' of a friend of mine when I come to and saw"—Pete hesitated, sat up and yawned again—"another friend that I wa'n't dreamin' about," ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... to decide whether she could fluff it up sufficiently to serve for the evening or whether she must take it down and redress it. At Linda's step in the doorway she turned a smiling face upon her and cried: "Hello, little sister, come in ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... "Hello, Mr. Browne!" It was a voice coming from the river in front of the house. The owner of the voice was concealed by some bushes at the margin of ...
— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

... he said, half gruffly. "You know how they are. She comes to that corner at nine every night for a—comes to say 'hello!' I generally manage to be there. Say, what was it you asked me a bit ago—what's doing in the city? Oh, there's a roof-garden or two just opened, ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry

... "Hello, Mamma!" Ward said. Harriet laughed, as she pushed away the filial arm. Hardly knowing what she said or did she made her way to the house, and up to ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

... luck. Thought you would be at some infernal At Home or other. Just got a call to San Jose—consultation—must take the next train. Come, help me pack. Hello, Masters. If I'd had time I'd have looked you up. Got some news ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton

... "Hello, Still Jim!" replied the girl, while her round cheeks showed dimples that for a moment made Jim forget ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow

... the cry of another Rancey Sniffle. "Hello, here! All you as wish to put in for the shoot'n'-match, come on here! for the putt'n' in's ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various

... "Hello, auntie!" he greeted her, instinctively modifying his voice to the soft gentleness proper to the ordered and ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... "Hello, old man," he cried, shaking Trenton warmly by the hand. "Been here long? Well, I declare, I'm glad to see you. Going to have a splendid day for it, aren't you? Yes, sir, I am glad to ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr

... and sat up, a fierce sun was beating down upon him. His head ached, and he was hungry. "There may be people within call," he thought. Rising unsteadily, the soreness of his muscles coming home to him, he gave a prolonged "Hello-o." A faint echo was his answer. He formed a trumpet of his hands and shouted louder. The echo came back stronger. "Only ...
— Claire - The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author • Leslie Burton Blades

... "Hello, Martin," Stanley greeted me. "I want you to meet Professor Berry, the real leader of this expedition. Professor, this young red-head is Martin Grey, a sort of nephew by adoption who knows more about night life than most cabaret proprietors—and not much of anything else. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

... as he took off his overcoat. "Hello, Jeff! Thought I'd look you up. Got settled in your diggings, eh?" Before his host could answer he rattled on: "Just ran in for a moment. Had the devil of a time to find you. What's the object in getting ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine

... "Hello!" a voice replied. "Is that you, Beth? You know you're too big to be on the yacht now without ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand

... and said: "The night before we left home I went to a show, and a fellow sang: 'Good-by, Broadway! Hello, France!' I thought it was great. I know what they're saying aboard those ships there now. 'Hello, Broadway! Good-by, France!' is what they're saying. And I betcher it'll be a straight line with no time wasted zigzagging for them ...
— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly

... twelve. If he had known her telephone number he would have called her up now, just to say "Hello." He would be taking a chance, however; for, as likely as not, she would inquire what he was doing, and would, he felt sure, scold him for having ...
— The Wall Street Girl • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... "Hello, Spring Chicken," cried Styles, to a youth in a blue sack with shoulder straps, who sat at the door of a state-room near by. "Look out for the tiger! I hear ...
— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon

... all spelled as they ought to be and his penmanship is good. The only thing is that there isn't a name signed nor any sign that will show who wrote it. Hello!" he added quickly, "here's something on the next page that ought ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay

... trousers. "I wonder if there's any funny business there?" he reflected. But he thought no more about it until weeks afterward, when he happened, one day, in the bank, to stand before Maurice, waiting his turn at the teller's window. He said, "Hello!" and Maurice said, "Hello!" and added that it was a cold day. The fact that Maurice said not a word about that recovering little patient in Medfield made the doctor's mind revert to the possibilities he ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

... began the manager, and then his eye wandered to the specimen on the desk before Melville. 'Hello!' he cried, ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr

... "Hello, Persis. Well, I declare you're a sight for sore eyes." He regarded her with frank admiration, an unconscious tribute to the effectiveness of the gray crepe. "Looks like you was renewing your youth," he continued ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... "Hello, Tom Swift! Hello, Ned! Glad to see you both! Busy, as usual, I'll wager. Bless my check book! I never saw you when you weren't busy at some scheme or other, Tom, my boy. But I won't take up much of your time. ...
— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton

... garage. A tall, clean-shaved man in palm beach clothes and panama hat came toward them. "Hello, old man," he said and stooped down and kissed one boy; then straightening up: "Who's this ...
— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux

... "Hello! There you are, Sarge," cried Hyman, while the little Filipino dandy started, peered at the young ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines - or, Following the Flag against the Moros • H. Irving Hancock

... "Hello, Nellie!" exclaimed this possible conspirator, opening the door wide. "Connie said it was your ring. Come straight in, both of you. Good evening, sir. Nellie's friends are our friends and we've heard so much of ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... Colored Soldiers and Sailors of the United States: Hello, boys! What are you doing over here? Fighting the Germans? Why? Have they ever done you any harm? Of course, some white folks and the lying English-American papers told you that the Germans ought to be wiped out for the sake of humanity and democracy. What is democracy? Personal freedom, all ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... "Hello," he heard himself saying, automatically, as he strode across the grass to the other smoker. ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... what is keeping the boys from the Curlew," she said. "We'd better get Tom aboard the Petrel where we can make him more comfortable. Better bring the other fellow too. There's some whisky on the boat unless those devils have stolen it too. Hello, ...
— El Diablo • Brayton Norton

... "Hello!" he murmured suddenly, and, with a firm hand under her chin, he tilted her handsome face upward. There were tears in her eyes. "What now?" he demanded tenderly. ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... "Hello, old man!" came suddenly from out of the crowd, and two heavy bags plunked down on the floor; two strong hands grabbed Hugh by the shoulders and their owner cried out boisterously: "What in the name of all the gods are you ...
— Nedra • George Barr McCutcheon

... left,—Theresa, a big, clean-lookin' child that I see grow up fr'm hello to good avnin'. She thought on'y iv th' ol' man, an' he leaned on her as if she was a crutch. She was out to meet him in th' ev'nin'; an' in th' mornin' he, th' simple ol' man, 'd stop to blow a kiss at her an' wave his dinner-pail, ...
— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne

... thrown a couple or so of girder-bridges across the canal between this and the Ri-alto, and run an elevator up the Campanile—but this ain't what you might call a business city, Sir, and that's a fact. (To Miss T. as she appears.) Hello, MAUD, the ice-water ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892 • Various

... and anger, the policeman forgot his surroundings, and glowered at Grant with real fury. So he heard no one approaching along the main road until he was hailed a second time with, "Hello, Robinson!" ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy

... "Hello!" muttered Ripley in a voice just loud enough to carry, as he stood looking at Dick and Dave. "I thought I saw, out in the grounds, a sign that read: 'No tramps, beggars or peddlers allowed on these grounds or ...
— The High School Boys' Canoe Club • H. Irving Hancock

... nothing queer in her aspect to-day, at all events, as she demurely performed her duties at the tea table. To the occasional pleasant and surprised "Hello, Miss Field!" she returned a composed and unsmiling nod of greeting; for the rest, she poured and sweetened, and conferred with the maids, ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

... man was his own boss," commented Kitchell. "Hello!" he remarked, "look here"; a yellowed photograph was in his hand the picture of a stout, fair-haired woman of about forty, wearing enormous pendant earrings in the style of the early sixties. Below was written: "S. Moran ...
— Moran of the Lady Letty • Frank Norris

... Addison spoke, a loud hello from Mr. Kennedy apprised them that their time was exhausted, and that the boats were ready to start. Charley sprang towards Kate, locked her in a long, passionate embrace, and then, forgetting Mr. Addison altogether in ...
— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne

... and pretty soon we got to the troop-room—that's in the Public Library. We were a little late, but I wanted it that way, so we wouldn't have any talk with anyone before the meeting started. Everyone said "hello" to us, but they were the coldest "helloes" you ever saw. "If I'd known it was going to be as cold as this. I'd have worn my sweater," I told Westy. Even my own patrol didn't say anything to us, and they all looked kind ...
— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... menacingly, and women and children faltering timidly in the rear. Van Brunt lifted his right arm and made the universal peace sign, a sign which all peoples know, and the villagers answered in peace. But to his chagrin, a skin-clad man ran forward and thrust out his hand with a familiar "Hello." He was a bearded man, with cheeks and brow bronzed to copper-brown, and in him Van ...
— Children of the Frost • Jack London

... move, eh-what?" chuckled Hicks, twisting like a contortionist, to view the damage done his vestiture, "Hello, what have we here?—the German field-map, by the Van Dyke beard of the Prophet! I bring the Kaiser's order, ham and eggs, and a cup of coffee. No, that's a mistake. General Hen Von Kluck, lead a brigade of submarines ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... have some new adventures," mused Tom, as he turned the pages of the paper. "I could afford to take a trip around the earth after them, too, with the way money is coming in now. Yes, I do wish I could have some excitement. Hello, what's this! A big elephant hunt in Africa. Hundreds of the huge creatures captured in a trap—driven in by tame beasts. Some are shot for their tusks. Others ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle • Victor Appleton

... dis nigger is sleepy," said he. "Hello! dat you, Oonomoo? And bress my soul, if dar ain't Massa Canfield," he added, rising ...
— Oonomoo the Huron • Edward S. Ellis

... "Hello, Richling, this is pretty exciting, isn't it?" It was the little clergyman. "Come on, I'll go your way; ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable

... "Oh, hello, Ed!" he greeted, clapping a hand on Chalmers' shoulder. "I was hoping I'd run into you. Can you have dinner with us this ...
— The Edge of the Knife • Henry Beam Piper

... o'clock his father came home from his office. "Hello!" said he, looking into the room; "aren't you home a little early to-day? Ah, I thought you weren't going to bring that dog into the house any more. I wish you wouldn't, son; he gets hair ...
— Vandover and the Brute • Frank Norris

... "Hello!" says she. "Ripping good of you to come. Well, what do you think? I've got some of 'em on, ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... sufficient, and the woman went on, leaving Caroline once more aimlessly pondering. At last she began to walk slowly down the Avenue to the Creddles' house, calling out at the door as usual: "Hello, aunt!" ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose

... he said cheerily. 'The neatest case I ever had. But it was touch and go. Hello! you're bleeding ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... "Hello, yerself!" the other little bear said. And then Cuffy knew that it was a real, live boy-bear over there, and not just a reflection of himself. Cuffy was so delighted that he jumped down off the boulder and splashed through the brook, he was in ...
— The Tale of Cuffy Bear • Arthur Scott Bailey

... of the achievement, could vouch for the sure result of his prescription. It was guaranteed to cure the dress-habit in seven days. At first, though, Mitch would not tell how the great honor of pants had been bestowed upon him. He was then too important even to say, "Hello, kid!" For a time he did not deign to notice anybody, and when he did notice anybody it was only to pretend that David was ...
— A Melody in Silver • Keene Abbott

... satisfied laugh as he spoke. The dying flame lit up his face. We saw the gleaming black stem of his pipe. He held it in his left hand. One finger, no, two fingers only on that hand. Hello! I had not noticed ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit

... "Hello, Slippery, old boy, when did you find your way back to Chicago?" were the first words of the stranger's greeting, who acted as if he were greatly pleased with the return of Joe's pal to the "Windy City." "I too am glad to be once more where one's eyes do not tire looking ...
— The Trail of the Tramp • A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston)

... "Hello! hello! Come down below,— It's lovely and cool Out here in the pool; On a lily-pad float For a nice green boat. Here we sit and sing In a pleasant ring; Or leap frog play, In the jolliest way. Our games have begun, Come join ...
— The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott

... rode with scarcely a glance toward Weary, who shouted a casual "Hello" at him from the corral; through the big gate and up the trail to the White House, and straight to the porch, where the Little Doctor flipped a leaf of her magazine and glanced at him with a smile, and the Kid turned his plump body upon ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower

... waded through water nearly a foot deep and came to a tent from which I saw a faint light emerging. I looked inside and there with their backs to the pole stood some stalwart young Canadians. On an island in the tent, was a pile of blankets, on which burnt a solitary candle. "Hello, boys, how are you getting on?" "Fine, Sir, fine," was their ready response. "Well, boys, keep that spirit up," I said, ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... take a pike at the place. Hello Fido, that you? You sure about them going as far ...
— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... glad the McIlhenys had too much sense to believe that. They're happy, anyway. They're enjoying the hobble that you and Agnes are in, with lofty compassion. They—hello! here's that fellow ...
— The Albany Depot - A Farce • W. D. Howells

... the club one afternoon I could hear his voice bawling vociferously in one of the telephone cabinets in the hall. "Hello, Washington," he was shouting. "Is that Washington? ...
— The Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities • Stephen Leacock

... "Hello, Bill, glad you're with us," he said. I tingled slightly at his tone and at a thousand friendly eyes that met mine for an instant. Then it was over. The ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole

... "Hello, dominie," the actor greeted him cheerfully, evidently relieved by his arrival. "We've just been discussing the mysterious Percival. You knew, of course, that he'd gone without so much as a by-your-leave to me? Not ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly

... with easy comrade-ship. Sometimes it was just, "Hello, neighbor!"—and if a warning were shouted across the street to one endangered by the current of swelling life, it might be— "Look out there, brother!" The sense of kinship tingled in the air, opening men's hearts and supplying ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis

... been fond of you, and now I like you! And just for a last word: there may be somebody else in this town who's always felt about you like that—fond of you, I mean, no matter how much it seemed you ought to be hanged. You might try—Hello, I must run. I'll send back the money as fast as they pay me—so, good-bye ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington

... Farmer Brown's boy."He had a regular castle here and we have destroyed it. He's got the snuggest kind of a little nest here, but he won't come back to it so long as it is right out in plain sight. He probably thinks we have been hunting for this little home of his. Hello! Here's his storehouse! I've often wondered how the little rascal could eat so much, but now I understand. He stored away here more than half of the good things I have given him. I am glad he did. If he hadn't, he might not come back, but I feel sure that to-night, when all is quiet, ...
— Whitefoot the Wood Mouse • Thornton W. Burgess

... in the sea-ward cleft of this great rock behind Tintageu, one afternoon, and Graeme had just succeeded in getting the kettle to boil by means of an armful of old gorse bushes, when, straightening up for a rest, he said suddenly,—"Hello! Look at that now!" and pointed ...
— Pearl of Pearl Island • John Oxenham

... "Hello, to you!" called back George. "It's been a long time since I have seen you. I shan't forget you for I have three or four ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay

... growled. "Yes, this is William Carmody. Oh, hello, governor! I will be right down. I overslept this morning. Stay where I am! Why? All right, ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx

... was only the married men, who had left their families so unprepared twelve months before, who cared to return home; for some of the young men, who were under the conscript age, refused to leave. Those who had to return received a lot of good-natured badgering at their sudden return to the army. "Hello, boys, when did you get back? What's the news at home?" "How did you find all?" were some of the soothing jeers the "returned sinners" had to endure; and as so great a number had expressed a desire to join the cavalry, not ...
— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert

... why all this excitement over a couple of bums?" he said, addressing space. "If they were working for me, I'd thank the Lord to be rid of 'em so cheaply. They—Hello!" ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon

... "Hello, there," called the voice she loathed, and Carder came striding after her. She stood still and faced him. The long lines and deep, clinging fringe of the creamy white shawl draped her in statuesque folds. Carder gasped ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham

... "Hello," cried a masculine voice, cheerily, as she entered the room. "I've never seen you before, ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed

... the least agitated member of the group, I boldly called 'hello,' and was asked by a masculine voice if Mrs. Stratton's little daughter didn't have blue eyes and brown hair and if she wore ...
— Grandfather's Love Pie • Miriam Gaines

... "Hello, cap'n," replied the savage, and salaamed gravely. "You likee buy chicken, buy pig? Maybe you say come 'board, I talk. Me very good ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne

... turning to a group of people talking near the rail, I remarked that with rag-time words, it would be vastly popular in American vaudeville. At which everyone stared incredulously for a moment, until one of the number, realizing the situation, managed to explain, between gasps of laughter, that "Hello, my Baby, Hello, my Honey" was in its dotage in the United States. Then the laughter became general, for all were more recent arrivals from America than I, and it was hard for them to understand how so elderly and decrepit a ditty could ...
— A Woman's Journey through the Philippines - On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route • Florence Kimball Russel

... "Hello, Sis," returned Elmer nonchalantly. He was a thin, anaemic-looking young fellow a couple of years younger than Virginia who affected a swagger and gloves and who had a cough which was insistent, but which he strove to disguise. And yet Florrie's hyperbole had not been ...
— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory

... eyesight had discovered the approach of the other chum, "and chances are he's bringing some news, because he carries the map on his face. 'Touch-and-Go Steve' we call him, because he's ready to fly off his base at the first crack of the gun; but he's sure got plenty now to excite him. Hello! Steve, how's things getting ...
— Afloat on the Flood • Lawrence J. Leslie

... proudly to the hotel to don a "boiled" shirt, and in other ways prepare himself to do honor to his exalted office. Much to the surprise of McNeil, lounging with some cronies on the shaded porch, he nodded to him genially, adding a hearty, "Hello there, Bill," as he passed ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish

... heard of. I didn't think Peter had it in him. It was rather hard on Jimmy Skunk, but it got rid of Reddy Fox for a while. He won't dare show his face around here for a long time. That means that Peter will have one less worry on his mind. Hello! Here comes Jimmy Skunk. I'll ask him a ...
— The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk • Thornton W. Burgess

... LUCILLE. Hello? Yes, Mrs. Prescott. Not yet, but he took the eleven-thirty train out of Washington and should be here any moment. [Listens.] At the Colony? I'll tell him the minute he comes in. ...
— Class of '29 • Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings

... they were there to see it. There was snow on the engine, snow on the cars, and snow every place, that snow could possibly stick. While the train waited the conductor walked around the platform speaking genially to every one. Even the small boys called "Hello, Dave!" to him. "Dave" had run on this line since it had been built, three years before, and everybody knew him. He discussed the tie-up on the line with the postmaster, apparently taking no notice of the fact that ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung

... "Hello, there! Ahoy! Come back!" yelled Merle, who possessed stronger lungs than her sister. "They don't hear me! Coo-oo-ee! That's done it, ...
— Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil

... know Them nearly all!—who gamble at a low And very shocking game of cards called "draw"! O cracky, how they'll squirm! ha-ha! haw-haw! Let's see what else (wife snores). Well, I'll be blest! A woman doesn't understand a jest. Hello! What, what? the scurvy wretch proceeds To take a fling at me, condemn him! (reads): Tom Jonesmith—my name's Thomas, vulgar cad!—Of the new Shavings Bank—the man's gone mad! That's libelous; I'll have him up for that—Has ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce

... "Hello, boys, what's up?" He shouted in the brotherly way that all white men seem to get when meeting another of their race in ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton

... of a jolly dog," remarked the surprised Thad, "and there are no chicken feathers around that I can notice. Hello, bo', getting your five ...
— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson

... "Hello Millett," called out a neighbor one morning "I saw you starting away yesterday morning very early on your fishing trip. Did you ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... right, for I have had the same misgiving ever since we left Wiscasset. I have tried to figure it out, but can't and am waiting for it to develop, hoping all the time it won't—hello! there it comes!" ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis

... "Hello, Prince Charming," she said, smiling gaily at the handsome man in evening clothes who stood looking down ...
— Patty's Friends • Carolyn Wells

... "Hello," said Peggy, smiling. Alice smiled, too, but hung back a little, and Billy swept a critical glance over Keineth's city-clad little figure. Mr. Lee, holding Alice's hand in his, was walking toward an automobile in which ...
— Keineth • Jane D. Abbott

... "Hello, Mack! Hello, Curly!" Diana dismounted and shook hands. "Well, the Judge gave his friends the slip. Everybody was satisfied but his colored man, Jonas. He was absolutely certain the Judge wouldn't keep his face clean ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... her embrace with a soft perfume of hair, which somehow stifled the "Hello, duckie" on the ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith

... so common that they do not provoke even passing comment. In the night there comes a sharp bark of an automatic or the shattering roar of a hand-grenade (which, since the war proved its efficacy, has become the most recherche weapon for private use in these regions), a clatter of feet, and a "Hello! Another killing." That is all. Life is the cheapest thing there is in ...
— The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the AEgean • Edward Alexander Powell

... Hello! What was that? Corn-stalks prone on the earth? Sign torn down and lying flat in the grass? Blinds open, fire in ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... "Hello, old girl!" shouted Mr. Cassidy. He shed his bundles and lifted her off her feet in a mighty hug. "I got tickets for Barnum & Bailey's, and if you'll bust the string of one of them bundles I guess you'll find that silk waist—why, good evening, Mrs. Fink—I didn't see ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry

... Uncle Sam's greenbacks to do that. Not many of them. When you've lived as long as I have you'll have learned that the things which dollars do not buy are the things that count. Hello! 'By the pricking of my thumbs, something ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond

... "Hello, Carrots," he called in the tone of jovial good-fellowship, "I like you, 'cause you look like a fellow I used to sit with in school. His name was Barton too—Jo Barton. O, I say," leaning forward eagerly, ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston

... "Hello," said Tom, as he read what was printed on the clipping. "The astronomers at the Lick observatory have discovered a new constellation in the southeast heavens. It is of huge dimensions and resembles in its outlines the figure of a rhinoceros ...
— Andiron Tales • John Kendrick Bangs

... of voices cried: "Hello, Sam!" and a place was made for him so he could thaw out his ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin

... I'd talked like this in front of 'em they'd of been guns pulled. But look at 'em now. I ask you: Look at 'em now! Ain't they tame? They hear me call 'em what they are, but they don't even bat an eye. Yes, sir, I've tamed 'em. They took a lot of lickin', but now they're tamed. Hello!" ...
— Trailin'! • Max Brand

... "Hello, Page, come out here: I am glad to see you." There he stood in a door at the back of the room, which led to his library and ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick

... three, five, Chestnut Hill!' Keep on ringing, Central, till Some one answers, 'Hello! who Is calling up ...
— Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers • David Cory

... she called. "Here is a fence, and the cabin should be near, although I see no light. Hello! Tony!" ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... "Hello, Pat!" The man who leaped from the buckboard and strode toward the waiting Irishman was tall and broad, with the head and chin of a soldier, and the brown eyes of a dreamer. He was dressed in rough corduroys, blue flannel shirt, laced boots, and Stetson, and he greeted the ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright

... pony, clattered up and stopped. "Hello, folks!" said Louise, purposely including the boy ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... pulling my coat," laughed Bunny, "so we're even. Hello, sheep!" he called. "What do ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm • Laura Lee Hope



Words linked to "Hello" :   hi, greeting, howdy, how-do-you-do, salutation, hullo



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