"Hello" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anything but Bill; she opened the door and bade me go in. I had to duck my head as I stepped forward, and there I was inside the room with the light pouring over me. I took one step forward, and stumbled over something, and then a tittering fool named Bentley, exclaimed: "Hello, here comes little Willie." I don't know how I got out. I heard a roar of laughter, I saw grinning faces jumbled together, and then I was outside, standing with my hot hand resting in the frost on ...
— The Jucklins - A Novel • Opie Read
... "Hello! Good-day, Senor Caballuco," said Licurgo, saluting the horseman when the latter had come up with them. "How is it that we got so far ahead of you? But you will arrive before us, if you set your mind ...
— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos
... "Hello! buster," a voice said near him. "What are you doin' away from yer mammy? Beckon she'll think the Yanks have got you if you ain't home ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan
... "Hello, hello!" he gasped. "Teutoberg speaking. Send no more marines out through the lock just now.... Yes, of course ...
— The Space Rover • Edwin K. Sloat
... Hello, there's Mr. Chase! And that's a fortunate thing, too, as no sympathetic picture of a representative American art exhibition should omit Mr. Chase. Whether or not we think of him as our premier painter, we should be inordinately proud of him. Undoubtedly he is a great artist. He has wrought ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday
... 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 ...
— The Straw • Eugene O'Neill
... "Hello!" exclaimed Serviss, under his breath. "Have I discovered a neat of cranks? I've been enlisted on somebody's side—I ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... words are 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 ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... barrel caught some glinting beams. "Halt! halt!" He was dismayed for a moment, but he presently thought that he recognized the nervous voice. As he stood tottering before the rifle barrel, he called out: "Why, hello, Wilson, you—you here?" ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane
... fire with ye? So I tolddled along a little further, an' here I be. Jest say as I'm welcome, an' let me enjoy the hospertality o' the occasion. Thunder! but the blaze is mighty fine tonight, fellers. Guess it won't be far from frost by mornin' the way it is now. Hello! that you, Owen—well, who'd a thought I'd run acrost ye here; ain't set eyes on ...
— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne
... "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
... "Hello, Dick! What the mischief are you sitting there for, looking as glum as an owl? And why on earth did you wake me? ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood
... has no influence, he should look at this scene. There are nearly as many people here as saw the informer tarred and feathered, and I have had considerably more than a finger in both pies. This should show the good people of Boston what I can do. Hello, ...
— Under the Liberty Tree - A Story of The 'Boston Massacre' • James Otis
... see," Twinkletoes replied. "But how about your early birds? Hello! Your moon's whiskers say that it's after five o'clock, and that's not early for birds. Now that I think of it, I don't believe they get up till later—at least in December." Whitey was tired—this was the "last straw." "Early birds!" he snorted, "early fiddlesticks! ...
— The Book of the Cat • Mabel Humphrey and Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall
... class and in order to distinguish him from the fourth-year fellows they call him an advanced senior. See? There are five in school this year. Faculty won't let them play basket ball or football because they're supposed to be too big and might hurt some of us little chaps. Huh! Hello, there's Jim. I've got to see ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... to speak to a friend whose home is a thousand miles away, we say "Hello" into a rubber tube and ask for a ...
— Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations • Hendrik Willem Van Loon
... was the only case on record where the pupils genuinely mourned a teacher's departure. I shook the dust of Canada from my feet, and have never regretted it. I tramped to Buffalo, continuing to shake the dust off at every step. (Hello! here's your drinks at last, Stilly. I had forgotten about them—an unusual thing with me. That's all right, boy; charge it to room 518. Ah! that hits the spot on a hot day.) Well, where was I? Oh, yes, at Buffalo. I got a place on a paper here, at just ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... gravely. "Just help yourself, only don't get lost, an' remember yer dad knew enough to play a lone hand. I must be goin', now. Good day." He turned his horse to see Microby standing in the doorway. "Hello, Microby Dandeline! House cleanin', eh? I s'pect you took in the ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx
... carelessly. "Thought I'd drop down to Alder for a day or two and get the kinks out. Hello, Blondy. Hey, Tommy!" ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand
... "Hello! This is Janie Henderson's knife," exclaimed Pauline. "Look here, Janie! Isn't this the ...
— The New Girl at St. Chad's - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil
... "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 ...
— The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum • Thornton W. Burgess
... the billiard room into the small entrance hall or lobby that adjoined it, I was struck with the air of silence which prevailed. The proprietor was not visible; no other person was visible. Once more I called out, saying: "Hello, my good man! Where are you?" or words to that effect; but only echo answered. I fared to the dining room, but not a living soul was in sight there. Beset by a sudden dread suspicion I hastily ascended the stairs to the upper floor ...
— Fibble, D. D. • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... They're cowboys! Hello, there!" cried the boy. "Will you please show us the way to the house on Three ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope
... 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 of glum. I heard Will Dawson say something about our patrol ...
— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... off so fast that I could catch no more than half, but I had seized enough to fill up the spaces for myself when the voices were cut off into silence, and Eagle March called, "Hello! ...
— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... wild, they was. Why, if 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
... again to her mother. "Actually here all right,—a real Christmas surprise. I'll take that up with Amy later; he's no business playing such a trick. But it must tickle you to see how dee-lighted everybody is! Oh, are you off, Aunt Josie? Hello, Lawrince!" She turned to wave her hand to Hastings at the door, where Waterman, Fosdick, and he had witnessed their wives' discomfiture. Those ladies were now attempting to impart to their exits ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... Lee. "Hello, 'Lissie. Been looking for you an hour, honey. Mornin', Norris. Howdy, Jack! Dad burn yore ornery hide, I ain't see you long enough for a good talk ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
... the Lost Pleiad of Literature, that's what you are; and a mighty neat phrase that is. Oh, my Philly, why aren't you here, to take notice of my coruscations? Full many a squib is born to blaze unseen, and waste its fizzing—Hello, you, sir! Stop a ...
— Margaret Montfort • Laura E. Richards
... feel if one of your clients would come up to you in public, slap you on the back and say 'Hello, Elmer?'" ...
— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin
... "Hello, darling! Is Mother here? Certainly she can! I believe,"—she said, turning, suddenly radiant, to Mrs. Porter,—"I'll just bet you she's ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris
... said the judge, "and was blushing. Mrs. Hunter was explaining the new style in ladies' figures, and asking him if he didn't think Minnie was getting much plumper. As soon as he saw me he yelled: 'Hello, Blodgett! Come into the buffet! I want to see you about some legal matters.' He excused himself to the ladies, and we went ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick
... 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
... that we were within a thousand miles of the continent, and were getting home. When one has been to the Philippines, what's a thousand miles or two! "Hello, Captain Seabury! It is only about a thousand miles right ahead to the land. You know what land it is, don't you? Well, now, you may break the shaft or burst the boilers, fling the ship to the sperm ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... "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 ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham
... "Hello, Blacklock!" said Langdon, with a quizzical, satirical smile with the eyes only. "It seems strange to see you at such peaceful pursuits." His glance traveled over me critically—and that was the beginning ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips
... "Hello, Nat!" cried Dave. He put as much warmth as possible in the salutation, for he felt sorry for the boy who had failed. "Bound ...
— Dave Porter in the Gold Fields - The Search for the Landslide Mine • Edward Stratemeyer
... have done for me something I can never pay you for, something I can never forget. You are true blue, Mr. Baker! That's the kind of a worthless good-for-nothing person you are, and I want to call you my friend! Hello, ...
— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman
... "Hello! What are you doing? I thought you detested this room." He spoke in a teasing, big-brother way, while his eyes dwelt pleasurably on the small gray figure in the President's chair. For, be it said without partiality or prejudice, Margaret MacLean was beautiful, with a beauty altogether ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer
... "Hello! Bushnell!" said Jack, extending his hand with that Free Masonry that always exists among boys. "I thought I recognized you, and asked if you didn't come from Marshall way. Took a notion to see how we were getting along over here, did you? Well, we're making progress, I ...
— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton
... "Hello, isn't it daylight yet?" asked Mr. Brockelsby. The hot cakes that had but lately been applied to his shaven crown, seemed to have dispelled the fogs of intoxication and ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis
... lumber-jacks—great fellows from the forest, big of body and passion, here gathered in celebration of the festival. John Fairmeadow, getting all at once and vigorously under way, shouted "Merry Christmas, boys!" and "Hello, Charlie!" to the bartender; and he shook hands with Pale Peter, slapped Billy the Beast on the back, roared a greeting to Gingerbread Jenkins, exclaimed "Merry Christmas!" with the speed and detonation of a Gatling gun, inquired after Butcher Long's brood of kids in the ...
— Christmas Eve at Swamp's End • Norman Duncan
... "Hello, Ethel!" called out Peg, all remembrance of the violent discussion gone in the excitement of the present. "I'm studyin' for an hour. Are yez still angry with me? Won't ye say I 'good night'? Well, then, I will. Good night, ...
— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners
... "Hello Tunkasina (grandfather), you must have a nice time, living here alone. I see that you have everything handy. You can get wood and water, and that is all you have to do. How do ...
— Myths and Legends of the Sioux • Marie L. McLaughlin
... "Hello, Snake, old man!" replied Beasley, as his bold, snapping black eyes swept the group. He was dusty and hot, and wet with sweat, yet evidently too excited to feel discomfort. "I seen your smoke signal ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... that it was invented by a Virginian. Haven't I come up here and shed some of my blood and more of my perspiration to save the sacred soil of the Mother of Presidents from invasion? And didn't I bring with me Arthur St. Clair, the best dressed man in Charleston, for the Yankees to shoot at? Hello, what's that? This is a ...
— The Star of Gettysburg - A Story of Southern High Tide • Joseph A. Altsheler
... the infield, where the horses and men were foregathered, Andy met Slim and Happy Jack; but beyond his curt "Hello" and an amazed "Well, by golly!" from Slim, no words passed. Across the corral he glimpsed some of the others—Pink and Weary, and farther along, Cal Emmett and Jack Bates; but they made no sign if they saw him, and he did not go near them. He did ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... at him. "Hello, Ronny. Thought you'd be off on your assignment by now. Got any clues ...
— Ultima Thule • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... him, he called out, "Hello, Pettengill! is that you? Confounded cold, ain't it? Who wuz yer waitin' for? Been ...
— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin
... Cock reproved the Chickens sharply for this. "It is very rude," said he, "to laugh at people for things they cannot help. How would you like to have a Lamb follow you around and bleat, 'Look at that Chicken! He has only two legs! Hello, little two-legs; how can you walk?' It is just as bad for you to laugh at his harsh voice, because he cannot help it. If he should say foolish and silly things, you might laugh, because he could help that if he tried. Don't ever again let me ...
— Among the Farmyard People • Clara Dillingham Pierson
... "Hello, Catamount Jack," said Elerson, humorously. "Where 'd ye steal the squaw-buckskins? Look at the macaroni, Tim—all ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... 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! What's this!" Brushtail exclaimed. He dug around a little in the sand, then said, "Oho, I see! It's a stake I stumbled over, and here is a chain and—why sure enough! There's a trap fastened to the chain. Ha! ha! ha! No beef to-night, thank you! I'll ...
— Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox • Thomas Clark Hinkle
... "Hello!" he exclaimed, bringing up short. "Where's the boss? Is he hurt? What happened to him?" he demanded excitedly, without giving Tad a ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin
... you waiting, Jane," said Cable, crossing to the curb. "Hello, Graydon; how are you?" His voice was sharp, crisp, and louder than the occasion seemed to demand, but it was natural with him. Years of life in an engine cab do not serve to mellow the tone of the human voice, and the habit is too strong to be overcome. There was no ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon
... "Hello, Mater!" he cried cheerfully, though his looks belied the buoyancy of his tone. "Hullo! what's ...
— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners
... Madame. I find out." Picking up the receiver from a telephone on the bureau, she spoke downstairs: "Hello! Who is this? Madame want to know if any word has come from Monsieur since he went away! You are quite sure? Merci!" Replacing the receiver, she shook her head ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... came to Happy Jack that here was a chance to show what a bold fellow he had become. "Hello, Sammy!" he exclaimed. "Are you feeling ...
— Happy Jack • Thornton Burgess
... "Hello, Buck!" Stanley actually tried to sit up in bed. "When we saw you put out up in them clouds, I sure thought ...
— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry
... identified with the morals, crimes or virtues of his client, yet has particular advantage from his crimes. So it was that Mazarine's lawyer enjoyed the public attention given to his drive through the town with Mazarine. He could hear this man say, "Hello, what's up!" or another remark that the Law and the Gospel were out ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... "Hello, Flo. Where is she?" he called, eagerly. With that he looked over her shoulder to espy Madeline. He actually jumped at her. She hardly knew the tall form and the bronzed face, but the warm flash of blue eyes was familiar. As for him, he ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey
... uniforms standing about in the corridors. General Prentice bowed here and there as they retired and took the elevator to the reception-rooms. In the doorway they passed a stout little man with stubby white moustaches, and the General stopped, exclaiming, "Hello, Major!" Then he added: "Let me introduce Mr. Allan Montague. Montague, ...
— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair
... Miss Jane. I was just goin' out, and in a minute I'd been gone for the night. Hello, Mother Martha! I ...
— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith
... upstairs. Mr. Wheeler got his hat and went out, calling to the dog. Jim came in whistling, looked in and said: "Hello, Les," and disappeared. He sat in the growing twilight and cursed himself for a fool. After all, where had he been heading? A man couldn't eat his cake and have it. But he was resentful, too; he stressed rather hard his own innocence, and chose to ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... "Hello, Reddy Fox! I thought you had gone down to the Green Meadows!" Sammy said this as if he was very much surprised to see Reddy there. He wasn't, for you know he had been watching Reddy hunt for Johnny Chuck's new house, ...
— The Adventures of Johnny Chuck • Thornton W. Burgess
... this I was going down town, moving briskly along, when a small boy came plump up against me, saying, "Hello, mister! don't you know me? You're the Sunday-school man which was to our house. I know you." "O yes, I know you now," and I said, "tell me about yourself." "I have been to Sunday-school four Sundays, and have a nice teacher, and enjoy going very much; we ...
— The American Missionary — Vol. 48, No. 10, October, 1894 • Various
... "Hello," responded Iff, dropping upon the cushioned seat beside him. He snapped his fingers at the steward. "Give it ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance
... never called "Baby," either; that was the special name of the next youngest. Captain Woolcot had said, "Hello, is this the General?" when the little, red, staring-eyed morsel had been put into his arms, and the name had come into daily use, though I believe at the christening service the curate did say something about Francis ...
— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner
... made of the same material as themselves, and when they got quite near to him and satisfied themselves that he was only washing his face in much the same way that any well regulated boy would do, the one who had called attention to him said, half timidly, "Hello!" ...
— Toby Tyler • James Otis
... "Hello, grandma!" he shouted, as he dropped his luggage on the porch and hurried forward to meet her as she emerged from the kitchen door, a steaming kettle of ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... again. "Hello, Pinto!" he said after a sharp glance into the freckled face. "Who's the ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Texas - Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains • Frank Gee Patchin
... "Hello! so you're there, are you, Hugh Morgan?" he called out, with a ring of savage delight in his heavy voice. "Glad you've dropped in just in time to see me give a good friend of yours a little lesson in politeness. Here's Owen saying ...
— The Chums of Scranton High - Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight • Donald Ferguson
... Rivers on her way, and sent him to find out how affairs were progressing. He arrived at this moment. "Hello," said he to Josh., "I was ...
— The Expressman and the Detective • Allan Pinkerton
... against the wall for support. The blood was dripping from several ugly wounds, but he revived as he heard Dick remark: "Dat was a beauterful mill. All right. Bein' a sportin' man myself, I t'ink I knows a good mill w'en I sees one. De di'mun' belt, ole man, is yourn. All right. Hello! W'y, ...
— Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York • Lemuel Ely Quigg
... at a house in Grosvenor Square. But the women were all young and pretty, and the men had no surnames. A long line of gilded youths in dress clothes occupied the middle of the floor. Each held by the waist the young man before him as if he were going to play leap-frog. "Hello there!" shouted one of them, and the band struck up. Then the whole body kicked out right and left, while all sang a chorus, consisting chiefly of "Tra-la-la-la-la-la!" One of them was a lord, another a young ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... she said, 'it seems like that when one thinks in the abstract. But really imagine it: imagine any man one knows, imagine him coming home to one every evening, and saying "Hello," ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... "Hello!" cried the mate, looking behind him. "There's something going to be doin' here in a minute. It's the ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... demanded George Baker. Larry handed it to him. "It's a girl's handkerchief, boys. And here are two initials in one corner. Hello! 'H.B.' What does that ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat • Janet Aldridge
... "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 planet ...
— The Helpful Robots • Robert J. Shea
... water running from him in streams, stood up in the fire-light regarding the dog-owner. "Hello!" ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton
... three, five, Chestnut Hill!' Keep on ringing, Central, till Some one answers, 'Hello! who Is ...
— Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers • David Cory
... "Hello, little orphan Annie," he said. "Bungel was telling me the wagon is coming for you pretty soon. Over the hill to the poorhouse. Ever hear that song? What's that you've got there, a soldier? Watcher doing with him? Lucky kid, I'd like ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... "Hello!" exclaimed Jack, plucking up some fresh interest, "have you located one of those remains of a building, then? I was coming to believe there wasn't so much as a broken wall left standing for a space of five ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach
... "Hello! How do? How are you? How be you?" and such kissing and handshaking had not for some time entertained the old agent at ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Country • Laura Lee Hope
... base where a hospital train was just discharging its load of wounded, Bok walked among the boys as they lay on their stretchers on the railroad platform waiting for bearers to carry them into the huts. As he approached one stretcher, a cheery voice called, "Hello, Mr. Bok. Here ...
— A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward Bok
... 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 ...
— Claire - The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author • Leslie Burton Blades
... "Hello! What happened here?" asked a voice, and the children looked up to see, standing in the door of the barn, Grandpa Brown. "What happened?" asked the farmer. "Did you ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus • Laura Lee Hope
... "Hello," he cried, his twinkling eyes under their shaggy brows lighting with pleasure as he looked at the girls. "Are you young ladies tryin' to ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... "Hello, MacRae," he said, as casually as a man would address another with whom he had slight acquaintance. "I've got some fish. D'you ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... downfall, and with it came the original rebellious desires. However, he hoped that somebody would intrude upon him. It was Peter Tounley. The student flung open the door and then yelled to the distance : " Here's an empty one." He clattered into the compartment. " Hello, Coleman! Didn't know you were in here! " At his heels came Nora Black, Coke and Marjory. " Oh! " they said, when they saw the occupant of the carriage. " Oh ! " Coleman was furious. He could have distributed ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... "Hello. Yes, it's Polly. Of course we can. What time! To the very minute. Yes, Peggy's right here beside me and fairly dancing up and down to know what we are talking about. No, don't come out for us; we will meet you at the gate at three-thirty sharp. Good-bye," and snapping ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... 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 his ...
— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne
... day, calloooh, callay,'" cried Hippy shaking hands all around. "It seems ages since I saw you girls. How well you all look, only you're not looking at me. These other good-for-nothing fellows are getting all the attention. Hello, Miriam," he called to Miriam Nesbit, who ran eagerly across the floor to meet the newcomers. "There's a prize package for you, too. It's outside the door shaking the ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower
... man pulling 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, ...
— Bred In The Bone - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... "Hello," hailed the youngster, pulling in his steed; "how be you, Mr. Atkins? I've got some of them things you ordered. The rest ain't come from Boston yet. Soon's they do, Henry G.'ll send 'em down. How you feelin' these days? Ain't bought no more ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... "Hello! How are you? How's Carmel?" he began. "I say, you know, this has been a shocking business! You look better than I expected" (scanning her face narrowly). "It's a mercy you aren't all under the daisies! Is Carmel really ...
— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil
... you were pretty smart about catching on about my jokin about Mr. le Cure. Corse I dont no him as well as you do, caus you no and I no he has lived on the other side more than hear, but I guess if we was to pass on the street, we wood no each other well enuf to say, Hello, old top, how are you to-day? Say, I have got your Christmas present all pickt out, do you no what I wish you wood give me fer mine? ...
— Deer Godchild • Marguerite Bernard and Edith Serrell
... "Hello, Bill," said the bummer who was unfastening the right-wheeler, as he looked back and saw the red face framed in a circlet of white hair and beard. "Just look at this old sunflower, will you? I guess the old bird must think he commands this brigade. Ha! ha! ha! I say, ...
— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee
... on the smooth white road, which followed the south bank of the Gila River. Myriads of lizards ran out and looked at us. "Hello, here you are ...
— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes
... "Hello, Burleigh, what can I do for you?" As Dr. Fenneben came into the study he recalled how awkwardly the same boy had filled the same chair only ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter
... gizzards! Pluck up your sperrits! Rise and look fortin an the footoor squar in the face. Squar off at fortin, an hav it out with her on the spot. I don't want to hev you go mopin an whinin about this way. Hello!" ...
— Lost in the Fog • James De Mille
... man, in puttees and knickers and Norfolk jacket, and he was smoking a cigarette. He stared at me as though I were the Missing Link. Then he said "Hello!" rather inadequately, it ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer
... "Hello! You nearly knocked me down, Stoker. Where are you going?" It was one of the factory boys who asked the question, and Alec, hurrying down the street with unseeing eyes, became suddenly aware that he had run against some one who ...
— Flip's "Islands of Providence" • Annie Fellows Johnston
... whistling it. Ned Wayburn demonstrated this in his vaudeville act "Staging an Act." He took a commonplace melody and built it up into a production—then the audience liked it. George Cohan did precisely the same thing in his "Hello, Broadway"; taking a silly lyric and a melody, he told the audience he was going to make 'em like it; and he did—by ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... "Oh, hello, Carnes," he exclaimed as he recognized his visitor. "Come in and sit down and keep your mouth shut for a few minutes. I am busy just now but I'll be at ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various
... "Hello, Holmes, old fellow," was the smiling greeting of this worthy. "I'll shoot you a game of pool. Billiards is too intricate a game for ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry
... "Hello, Nero, old boy!" called the man. "Did you stand the ride all right? Yes, I guess you did. Well, we'll soon be doing our tricks together in the tent," and he patted the paw Nero held out to him, for this was his way ...
— Nero, the Circus Lion - His Many Adventures • Richard Barnum
... cleared. Boyd was facing the picture of a man in his middle thirties, a brown-haired man with large, gentle brown eyes and an expression that somehow managed to look both sad and confident. "Hello, Dr. Leibowitz," Boyd said. ...
— The Impossibles • Gordon Randall Garrett
... she was calling out gaily to one. "This is for you, Colonel Collar Bone. Where's Cadet Limpy? Discharged? Good for him! Hello, Mr. Strong Man!" For a moment she poised at the foot of Bowinski's cot, then recognizing Miss ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... that—say Ah there!" interrupted the Hatter. "Hello comes under the head of profanity, which is ...
— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs
... "Oh, hello, Nick!" he commenced to say, a little restrained in his welcome; for, of course, he could give a guess that the other had come again to try and buy his skates, which Hugh was not much ...
— The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey • Donald Ferguson
... Is that fellow Stone here yet? I can't wait all morning for him, for there's plenty of ploughin', and plenty of lazy niggers back at the farm! Hello! Why, ...
— The Love Story of Abner Stone • Edwin Carlile Litsey
... "Hello yourself, Sweetness!" And, draping himself across the white-goods counter in an attitude as intricate as the letter S, behold Mr. Charley Chubb! Sleek, soap-scented, slim—a satire on the satyr and the ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... "Hello, wise man," he greeted him cheerily. "You were a good prophet—and you got some sleep. I hung around all night, ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... told him. Now, you must remember that this little piggie was such a dear, good little piggie, that he had a great many friends among the other animals. So he had not gone far when who should spy him but his friend Bossie Calf. "Hello, there!" said the calf. "Where are you ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various
... "Hello, Aunt Avey," piped the cheery voice of the little old Doctor, as he came toddling through the front door. "It's a boy—Joe Calvin the Third." The Doctor came back to the desk where Amos was standing and took a chair, and as Amos drifted out of the store as impersonally as he came, ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... climb those wabbly rattly-bangs that you call rustic stairs, I wonder that you have a friend to your name. Hello, Eveley." ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... "Hello, Ben!" said Jimmy, still with his strange smile. "Got around at last, have you? Well, let's go. I don't know that it makes much ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... out as she passed the window on her way to the piano. "Wait a minute! Here's Jimsy! I'll call him!" She sped to the door and hailed him, and he came swiftly in. "Hello! How was practice?" ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... "Hello, bo!" he observed cheerfully. "Didn't see yer. Did yer pipe me chase wid de yelper? Dat stilt-legged son of a saw-toothed tyke has had his nose on me rudder-post fer more'n ...
— A Night Out • Edward Peple
... my footing and stumble against the door and on the other side someone says "Hello, Lizzie. Awake ...
— The Lost Kafoozalum • Pauline Ashwell
... JACK. Hello! I've got home all ri——[Defiantly.] Who says I sh'd never 've opened th' door without 'sistance. [He staggers in, fumbling with the reticule. A lady's handkerchief and purse of crimson silk fall out.] ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... "Hello! What's the matter now?" asked Bob, who had not noticed the man, and was surprised at the sudden ...
— Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation • James Otis
... of the little gate in the counter in a twinkling, just as Molly, in answer to a beckoning gesture from Betsy, came in. "Hello, there's another one!" said the gay young man, gayer and gayer. "Hello, button! What you going to do? I suppose when they try to crack the safe you'll run at them and ...
— Understood Betsy • Dorothy Canfield
... run these channels for years," he said, "and I know them as I know the old backyard at home. Hello, what's up?" ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson
... it might be a better hat than the one he was wearing, he dismounted to get it. Feeling his way carefully through the ooze until he reached the hat, he was surprised to find a man underneath and wearing it. 'Hello, comrade,' he sang out, 'can I lend you ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams
... "Hello, Duane!" cried the youthful landowner in all the pride of new possession, as Mallett emerged from the motor; "frightfully glad to see you, old fellow! How is it in town? Did you bring your own rods? There are plenty here. What do ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... Polly and her mother, and lifted Paul to the ceiling. "Hello, young man!" said he. "If one is ...
— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller
... on Dr. Harman's desk chimed gently. He glanced at it and said: "Excuse me. The phone." He picked up the receiver and said: "Hello?" ...
— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)
... at the club-house, nervously pacing the long veranda, gnawing his cigar. "Hello!" he called out, as Major Brent waddled up. "Have you bought the ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers
... F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce
... in great satisfaction. "That is settled. That shall be his name. Hello, there, Frank Merriwell, the younger! I'll make an athlete of you, you rascal! I'll give you such advantages to start with as ...
— Frank Merriwell's Son - A Chip Off the Old Block • Burt L. Standish
... of breath. "'S my daughter here?" And then, catching sight of Kirkwood's countenance: "Why, hello, Kirkwood!" he saluted him with ...
— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance
... soon all such thoughts were put out of his head, For who should come by but Triangular Ted, The very boy Tom had been wishing to see! "Hello!" said Triangular Tommy, said he. "Hello!" said Triangular Ted, and away Those two children scooted to frolic and play. And they had, on the green, Where 'twas all dry and clean, The best game of leap-frog ...
— The Jingle Book • Carolyn Wells
... works have met with the same fate as her foundations. They remain for the most part unpublished. Hello, who was familiar with them, only extracted a very mediocre cento; some others, as Prince Galitzin and the Abbe Penaud, have explored her writings with better results and printed some ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... port. It is of a sailor on this craft that a patriotic anecdote, now almost classic, is told. He was unhappily deformed, and while passing along a Liverpool street was greeted by a British tar with a blow on his "humpback" and the salutation: "Hello, Jack! What you got there?" "Bunker Hill, d——n ye!" responded the Yankee. "Think you can climb it?" Far out at sea, swept ever by the Atlantic gales, a mere sand-bank, with scant surface soil to support ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot
... straight and motionless dignity against the wall till it should have passed. But it didn't pass. It was a male figure in a peaked cap, probably a steward, they thought, and it stopped in front of them and said in an American voice, "Hello." ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... "Hello! we're saved!—the Vesty!" cried Notely, whose fever had been plunging him in cold sea-waves, his voice a feeble echo of its old gay tone, as he put up ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... he married well when he got Sally Brown, For very well connected was his "poil," Connected too with all the finest families in the town— By telephone—She was a "Hello-Goil"! ...
— Why They Married • James Montgomery Flagg
... nodded gayly. "I bet there will be a right lively wolf hunt. Hello! The car's loaded. All ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... reached one thousand had it not been for the Monon. Miss Day, the young lady there, had a vocabulary limited to "Hello," "Too high," and "Good-by," and it became particularly galling to learn that the fellow at James & Naughten's was pulling down the business, so Mitchell went to Murphy with a proposition which showed that his mental growth had kept pace with his ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... 'Hello! wot's that?' cried Chippy, whose eyes were always on the move. He was pointing through the covert towards the direction from which they had come. Something was moving in the distant gorse, and then they saw the spy. ...
— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore
... he expostulated. "Rather not!" Then, catching sight of her face, "Hello! You look ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... be listening. I don't believe Sally will like our overhearing her; and we ought to warn her. It's no use your stamping your bare feet, for they wouldn't make any noise. I'll rap my stick on the floor." He also called out, "Hello, the house!" and Sally herself came to the kitchen door. She burst into her large laugh. "Well, I declare to goodness, if it ain't Abel and the Squire! Well, if this ain't the best joke on me! Did you ...
— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells
... and rocks and field they run; "Hello!" cries Ben, "see, there is Evan!" And now, as they rush on, we see, Like wonders of the world, ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 • Various
... "Hello!" he said cordially. "You are back, I see. And tired," he added, noting her position. He walked over and laid a hand on her forehead and she involuntarily shrank from his touch, shuddering, for the hand which he had ...
— The Trail to Yesterday • Charles Alden Seltzer
... indeed. Mme. Laurent (Lucrece Borgia) also played well. During the rehearsal M. de Flavigny dropped in. I said to him: "Good morning, my dear ex-colleague." He looked at me, then with some emotion exclaimed: "Hello! is that you?" And he added: "How well preserved you are!" I replied: "Banishment ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo
... "Hello! hello! Is that the hotel, El Tovar Hotel? Very well; this is Brown. Brown! Yes. Well, we want you to send out dinner for six. Six! Can't you understand plain English? Yes, six. Oh, well, I think we'll have some porter house steak smothered in onions. Smothered! We'll have ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin
... "Hello, Dimples!" says Buddy. "Oh, they were your rings, were they? Then it's all right. I just borrowed 'em to scare sister into a cat fit and make her open up—just for a ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... "Come up here and talk," cried Steering, his eagerness to hear the sound of a human and friendly voice making him overlook the excitement under which Bernique laboured. He tied Bernique's horse to a bush and drew the old man up the bluff. "Where have you been this time? Where is Piney? Hello! what's the matter with ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... "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 ...
— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon
... also the sorrow. It is the direction given to the will, orders to be so carefully obeyed. This is the greatest discovery of all. Words do not reveal it. It is absolutely prosaic, though it is eternal beauty. But what I have written does not reflect it even faintly as it seems to me. Read Hello this afternoon. The freedom of the dunes this morning seemed to extend more than is usual. Later I ...
— The Forgotten Threshold • Arthur Middleton
... to Senator Brogan's office quickly. "Hello, Miss Persons? I'm glad you're still there. This is Bob Kessler. Do you have any idea where the senator is now? Good, would you put me through ...
— The Last Straw • William J. Smith
... lovers. "Hello!" he said. "Oscar's made his ante good at last—bad hawse works as well as Injuns." We started to lead ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips
... let's look you over.... Hello! it's young Cleve. I didn't recognize you. Excuse me. We're a little ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
... Speculation was rife. A score of voices argued as to the location of the fire. The throng swayed back and forth. The man in the car demanded information as he drew up at the curb and a dozen answers were flung at him. Then a small, fat man ran up and leaned excitedly across the front of the auto. "Hello, Mr. Brady!" he panted. "You going ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour
... "Hello, Amarilly! I ain't seen yer in so long I'd fergit how you looked. Say, why didn't you ever fix yer hair that way afore? It looks swell, even if ...
— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates
... any remark, and my confusion was further increased when, after a few "Hello's," which I idiotically repeated, her clear, level tones said: "Is that you, Karl? How are you?" How was I? What a question to ask! I wanted to tell her that I was bubbling with joy, that a thousand-kilogramme load had been lifted ...
— The Diary of a U-boat Commander • Anon
... "Hello!" said the Professor, his eye resting professionally upon Dan's splendid proportions. What a "subject" to cut up! What ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... response to his cries had been Jim's "Hello!" So overjoyed was Len at hearing a human voice again that he had ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond |
