"Holla" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... out of Holla's fountain, there are in German districts a number of Holla wells or Holla springs (Holla brunn?) with appropriate legends. Women, we are told, who step into those springs become prolific. Mullenhof tells of an old stone fountain in Flensburg, which is called the Groennerkeel. ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer
... yield myself to thy foe!" With this the youth put out his hand to her and withdrew her veil from her face, whereupon it shone forth as the sun shineth out from the white clouds. Then he kissed her between the eyes and bade her farewell; after which he turned to us and said, "Holla, Knights! Come ye as guests or crave ye cuts and thrusts? If ye come to us as your hosts, rejoice ye in the guest rite; and, if ye covet the shining moon, come ye out against me, knight by knight, into this plain ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... "Holla! Le Gardeur de Repentigny! Is that you?" exclaimed a voice in the night. "What lucky wind blows you out at this hour?" Le Gardeur stopped and recognized the Chevalier de Pean. "Where are you going in ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... a holler." If he had spoken Greek the Blight could not have been more puzzled. He meant he lived as far as a man's voice would carry with one yell and a holla. ...
— A Knight of the Cumberland • John Fox Jr.
... uns which prevent the old ones from rising in the world—that's very true, Tom. Holla, who have we got here? My service to you, at ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... new-made empress. To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen, This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph, This siren, that will charm Rome's Saturnine, And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's.— Holla! what storm is this? ...
— The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... They caused their arrival to be announced to Master Martin, and soon he appeared in the entrance-passage, dressed in holiday garb and with no small amount of colour in his nose and on his cheeks. On catching sight of Frederick he cried, "Holla! Frederick, my good lad, have you come home again? That's fine! And so you have taken up the best of all trades—cooperage. Herr Holzschuer cuts confounded wry faces when your name is mentioned, and says a great artist is ruined in you, and that you could ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... church," said Wilhelm. "Because there are no bells in the tower, they have here such a wandering bell-ringer as this. Holla! there ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen
... second knock and a third; yet there came no sign. Then he knocked his loudest but still no answer, so he said, "Doubtless 'tis empty." Thereupon he mustered up resolution and boldly walked through the main gate into the great hall and there cried out aloud, "Holla, ye people of the palace! I am a stranger and a wayfarer; have you aught here of victual?" He repeated his cry a second time and a third but still there came no reply; so strengthening his heart and making up his mind he ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton |
