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In conceiving the language of passion, the _natural_ impulse is to imitate the passion in gesture; there is something artificial in sitting quietly at a table and hollaing, "Mortimer!" through a quill.
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For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing, and singing of anthems.
Act I. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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But the frogs kept us happy by hollaing and shouting "Brek-kek-kek-kek" all the time.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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For my _voice_, I have _lost it with_ hollaing, and _singing of anthems_.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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'Well, Master, a nice sort of a way of spending a Sunday evening this!' began Ellen; 'and coming hollaing up the lane, just on purpose to wake poor Alfred, when he's so ill!'
Friarswood Post Office Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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To "hollaing Hotspur" [11] and his sceptred sire. [xxvi] 'Tis not enough, ye Bards, with all your art,
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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So let us watch him up the hill as he goes hugging his horn, to tell all that has passed to his mother, from whom he had never hidden anything in his life, save only that sea-fever; and that only because he foreknew that it would give her pain; and because, moreover, being a prudent and sensible lad, he knew that he was not yet old enough to go, and that, as he expressed it to her that afternoon, “there was no use hollaing till he was out of the wood.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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So let us watch him up the hill as he goes hugging his horn, to tell all that has passed to his mother, from whom he had never hidden anything in his life, save only that sea-fever; and that only because he foreknew that it would give her pain; and because, moreover, being a prudent and sensible lad, he knew that he was not yet old enough to go, and that, as he expressed it to her that afternoon, "there was no use hollaing till he was out of the wood."
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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