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  • Re-write men "helloed" indignantly into telephones, repeating with sudden listlessness the pregnant details of the news pouring in; and scribbling it down on sheets of paper ... "dead Grant park bullet unknown 26 yrs silk stockings refinement mystery."

    Erik Dorn Ben Hecht 1929

  • I hastened around to the drug store not far away and "helloed" and repeated and fumed and swore in agony for half an hour, but I came back in high spirits.

    The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • I helloed but got no answer, so guessed the doc was still up to the Three Log.

    Static 2010

  • I opened the window and helloed to the cattle, and they answered, in chorus, and raised their heads, jaws working, to look for me.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • I helloed but got no answer, so guessed the doc was still up to the Three Log.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • With a precipitous nudge of the memory she dashed to the door and helloed to the fast retreating figure.

    Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • It was in quoting prices on these "pick-ups" that Mitchell helloed for eight hours a day.

    Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • At the edge of town where the houses became scattered and the road started to drop away into a deep valley some one helloed behind him.

    Windy McPherson's Son Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • None of them helloed, and none of them returned my smile, and the colonel did not shake hands with me.

    How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 1878

  • It was in vain that the cabman nearest to her helloed to warn her of the impending danger.

    Bad Hugh Mary Jane Holmes 1866

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