"Hello" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Hello!" he cried as he opened the door. Then he stood transfixed at the vision that met his sight, for a very blond and fuzzy head was bent over Ellery's desk and a very startled pair of blue eyes was raised to meet his own. There stood a rosebud dressed in gray. Is there anything more ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter
... us," cautioned Lucile. "Hello, girls," she cried, as she entered the room. "I don't see how you managed ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... Anthony opened his eyes. "Hello! Are you the clerk?" Instead of the bell-hop he had expected he beheld a man in white jacket ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... my boy, we learned that long ago. And when the lieut. wouldn't let us go on, there must be some reason for it. I'm just as anxious to give Fritz his medicine as anyone. Hello, there! Did you ...
— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates
... "Hello! What's the meaning of this?" demanded Jed Sully, after alighting. And he strode forward and confronted ...
— Dave Porter and His Rivals - or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
... "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, Lance, I am awfully glad to see you! I was feeling dull," Teresa called out. "How did you happen to walk over to camp and not be wearing your uniform? Miss Mason is lying down in her tent; if you like I'll tell her ...
— The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest • Margaret Vandercook
... ye see I saw mighty quick I was in for a lie anyhow, so I said, 'Is massa at home?' 'Yes,' says she,—an' sure nuff, he cum right out. 'Hello, nigger!' he said when he seed me, 'whar you cum from? so I tells him from Pocotaligo, an' before he could ax any more queshuns, I went on an' tole him we cotched fifty Yankees down dere yesterday, an' massa he was so tickled dat he let me go ...
— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson
... Ah there!" interrupted the Hatter. "Hello comes under the head of profanity, which ...
— Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream • John Kendrick Bangs
... to speak to a friend whose home is a thousand miles away, we say "Hello" into a rubber tube and ask for a certain telephone number ...
— Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations • Hendrik Willem Van Loon
... he! When she comes to sue— Let's see. What's the thing to do? Kick her? No! There's the perliss! Sorter throw her off like this! Hello! Stop! Help! Murder! Hey! There's my whole stock got away! Kiting on the house tops! Lost! All a poor man's fortin! Cost? Twenty dollars! Eh! What's this? Fifty ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various
... 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
... "Hello, corporal," said Eisenstein. Eisenstein, his French soldier friend, a lanky man with a scraggly black heard and burning black eyes, and Stockton, the chalky-faced boy, were sitting at the table that filled ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... particular waitress was a ten-year-old child, who said "hello" and smoked a cigar as long as herself. In a moment of enthusiasm one of our number who was interested in temperance and its allied reforms tipped Basilia a whole Mexican media-peseta. When the reformer became aware of Basilia's predilection ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee
... notice them. And as long as a man stayed to answer his queries, just so long did Harry remain, at last to rise, brush a few crumbs from his lightning-like suit, press his new hat gently upon his head with both hands and start forth once more on his rounds of saying hello. And there was nothing for Fairchild to do but to wait as patiently ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... "Hello!" cried the mate, looking behind him. "There's something going to be doin' here in a minute. It's the cutter from Halifax, ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... "Hello, Skyrocket! I've found you all right!" said Uncle Toby. "But what in the world are you doing back here? What made you jump out of ...
— The Curlytops and Their Playmates - or Jolly Times Through the Holidays • Howard R. Garis
... "Hello, Pen," greeted he. "You've come just in time to smoke up some of this Greek tobacco. Throw those books off that ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre
... too long," returned the captain. "Of course the P. & O. liners, being mail-carriers, do it in much less time. But they're built for speed, and make fewer stops. Then, we tramp steamers always give them the right of way in harbor—hello!" ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... 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 a white dress ...
— Grandfather's Love Pie • Miriam Gaines
... terms for you half as well, with you on the ground. We want you to keep your distance for the present, and let your friends work for you. Like a candidate for the presidency," Pinney added, with a smile. "Hello! ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... "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 in ...
— The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey • Donald Ferguson
... said: "Hello! It looks as if there was a shower coming up, and my hay's out. Good-by, Mr. Hancock; we'll ...
— Ben Comee - A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 • M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
... the glare of the sun, which beat upon him like the eye of the world. But the street was really empty, as it often was in the middle of the forenoon at Equity. The apothecary, who saw him untying the doctor's horse, came to his door, and said jocosely, "Hello, Doc! who's sick?" ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... Cholera mixture and soda mints," he said, from the various labels,—"hello, here's ...
— The Come Back • Carolyn Wells
... "Hello, who's there?" asked the man, for he could think of no one who would be calling at the hour of nine, which is really late in ...
— Black Bruin - The Biography of a Bear • Clarence Hawkes
... "Hello, there!" called a rough voice to us, as the boat grated at our beach. Auberry and I walked over and found that it was the mate of the boat, with a pair of oarsmen in ...
— The Way of a Man • Emerson Hough
... of exciting debate, slipped out into the darkness, and made his way into the Democratic headquarters. At the corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets a dark figure stepped out from the darkness and confronted him. "Hello dar, Calvin Sauls!" said a gruff voice. "Where is you sneakin' ter? You got er few uv us fool, but not all. Goin' down ter tell wa't you foun' out at de committee meet'n, eh?" "O, g'wan way f'm me, man; I got dese white fo'ks bizness ter ten' ter." The man ...
— Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly - A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. • David Bryant Fulton
... not congratulate Lydia. He passed her just as he had during all the months, with a curt little "Hello." To tell the truth Lydia was heartily ashamed of herself for her shabby reception of Billy's plea. Not that she had softened toward him! But she knew she had been unkind and she missed the desultory companionship ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... thoughtfully, and proceeded 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
... really worrying over, though I don't know why. I heard him come in very quietly last night as I was tucking little Dinkie up in his crib. I went to the nursery door, half hoping to hear my lord and master sing out his old-time "Hello, Lady-Bird!" or "Are you there, Babushka?" But instead of that he climbed the stairs, rather heavily, and passed on down the hall to the little room he calls his study, his sanctum-sanctorum where he keeps his desk and papers and books—and the duck-guns, so that Dinkie can't ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer
... "Hello, Cap'n," called out the driver, complimenting me with that military title, "can you give a hand to this trunk? I've got to go right slap back after two ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., April, 1863, No. LXVI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics. • Various
... "Any time, Brother." And he said, "This is the second worst automobile ride I ever had in all my life. Will you promise me never again to start out driving when the road is as bad as this?" My reply was: "Hello! Hello! Hello! Who is this? Brother Sherwood? What do you want? Your wife sick? What, dying? Yes, I'm starting out right away; I'm coming as fast as I can." Whereupon Brother Sherwood reached out his hand and said, "Brother Susag, forgive me; ...
— Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag • S. O. Susag
... hello! Oh, hello, hello, hello! Wake up, in there! Roberts, wake up! Sound the loud timbrel! Fire, murder, and sudden death! Wake up! Monday morning, you know; here's Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, all gone and nothing ...
— Evening Dress - Farce • W. D. Howells
... "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 ...
— Patty Fairfield • Carolyn Wells
... of the name. It was Thornly instead of Thorne. He was now certainly at sea. Moving away, disgusted with himself, he walked through the spacious office, and almost ran into a man as he reached the door. Both men exclaimed in mutual surprise, "Hello!" Neither pronounced the name of the other, and yet ...
— The Mystery of Monastery Farm • H. R. Naylor
... "Hello," whispered the prince softly. His voice, Jimmie noted with approval, even over a public telephone was as gentle as ...
— Somewhere in France • Richard Harding Davis
... "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. ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm • Laura Lee Hope
... "Hello, boys," the committee-man called out with automatic geniality, as he descended the broken steps. "How are ye? All here? That's good; that's the stuff! ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... "Hello! What's this?" exclaimed Cullen a few minutes later. "Horton has been recognized, when the program was to adjourn when the naval base ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... "Hello! There you are, Sarge," cried Hyman, while the little Filipino dandy started, peered at the ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines - or, Following the Flag against the Moros • H. Irving Hancock
... Hello, fellows!" The cold air, forcing itself in at the door in a thick, smoky cloud, was whirling around his feet; he stood on the threshold, looking down on us from above, and from under his fair, curled moustache, big, yellow teeth were ...
— Twenty-six and One and Other Stories • Maksim Gorky
... "Hello!" came in an inquiring voice, and Badger, looking up, saw Morton Agnew. The Westerner's face took on an unpleasant look, and he did not ...
— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish
... "Why, hello John!" said Frederick Trevor, a man who had an office in his building and an interest in his sister. "Who would have thought of meeting ...
— New Faces • Myra Kelly
... things to tell Roger to do!—and the boat was gone before he knew it. So he just had to wait. I 'spect he'll come on one of those other boats. Wouldn't it be funny if one of them would come splashing along right now and Uncle Carey would wave his hand at me and say 'Hello, Nancy ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin
... village at a late hour one night young Wells overheard this conversation: "Hello, Bill," said the case-keeper in a faro game, as he turned his head halfway round to see who was the owner of the monster hand which had just reached over his shoulder and placed a stack of silver dollars on a card, ...
— Cattle Brands - A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories • Andy Adams
... 'Hello!' she answered cheerfully, straining her eyes to see him. He was still busy, attending to the horses near her, but she saw only darkness. It ...
— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence
... "Hello, Jeff," he said, jotting down a number in his tally book, "goin' by without stoppin', was ye? Better ask the cook for somethin' to eat. Say, you're goin' up the river, ain't ye? Well, tell Pablo Moreno and them Mexicans I lost a cut of two hundred sheep ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... realized how light it was and had started for home, hurrying with all my might, when I heard a little noise at the top of the hill where Prickly Porky the Porcupine lives. Of course I thought it was Prickly himself starting out for his breakfast, and I looked up with my mouth open to say hello. But I didn't say hello. No, Sir, I didn't say a word. I was too scared. There, just starting down the hill straight towards me, was the most dreadful creature that ever has been seen in the Green Forest! It didn't have any legs, and it didn't have any ...
— The Adventures of Prickly Porky • Thornton W. Burgess
... looking for the voyagers and expressed much disappointment when they refused to halt even for a few moments. As they were enjoying their pipes over a splendid camp fire one night some miles above St. Joseph, they were somewhat startled at hearing a gruff voice call out, "Hello, there." And immediately two men heavily armed, stood by the fire. One was a tall, muscular fellow and the other shorter and slighter built, both having the appearance of men that were not to be trifled ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
... that a sorry-lookin' lot, Winters," he was saying. "I know a jackpot bunch of cows when I see 'em. They look to me like they been fed on short grass an' shin-oak." His face lighted at sight of the Ranger. "Hello, brindle-haid! Didn't ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... she removed the receiver from the hook and let it hang at the full length of the cord. In the dead silence the small voice of Central was clearly articulate: "What number? Hello, what number?"—followed by the grumbling of the armature as the operator tried fruitlessly to ring the disconnected bell. The girl smiled faintly, aware that there would now be no interruption from ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... "Hello!" said the stranger, vaguely. "I seem to have——" He broke off, and his lips smiled. It was a friendly, understanding smile, and the girl, fighting hard the shy impulse to drop his shoulders, and flee into the kind masking of the bushes, ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... "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 ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... "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 vegetables in ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... Feetgong and called across the water to the boatman, "Hello, friend! How fares it ...
— Tales of Folk and Fairies • Katharine Pyle
... microphone onto its hangar. He sat, angry and bewildered, until he remembered something, then buzzed Communications. "Get me that connection again. Hello? Listen. I have sixty thousand troops in transports, with almost no food. I intend to ...
— Tulan • Carroll Mather Capps
... Hello, Hythe! Playing at Little Red Riding Hood? Mind the wolf. (Gil. looks angrily at him, and goes off L., Eric comes down; he is a handsome young fellow with an indolent manner. Crossing to Kate) How do ...
— The Squire - An Original Comedy in Three Acts • Arthur W. Pinero
... The shrewd hello girl, however, had erred in the case of Whitney Barnes, for this is the way his end of the conversation in booth ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... 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 ...
— The Albany Depot - A Farce • W. D. Howells
... she murmured, filling her embrace with a soft perfume of hair, which somehow stifled the "Hello, duckie" on the ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... powdered her nose—which, she knew, gave her an expression half amusing, half piteous, just like that of the clown who is playing his tricks at the circus while his little daughter is dying at home. "Hello, Goosie," she said breathlessly (also she had rubbed a trace of rouge under her eyes); "hello, just in time for dinner! Made a fine chocolate cake. Poor ...
— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper
... said. "Hello! It is that good-for-nothing young Cooper fellow from the next block. They say he is a millionaire. Well, he isn't even going to ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown
... "Hello, my friend!" cried Camors, touching his arm, "would you like to earn five Louis? If so, give me a knock-down blow. That will give you pleasure and ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... had passed before he, too, had followed Theodore Thomas back to New York, I met him in the lobby of the Academy of Music between the acts of the opera. It was in the consulship of Mapleson. "Hello!" I greeted him. "Back to New York so soon? What's the matter ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... inverted horn which projects from a transmitter that hangs round her neck and asks: "Number, please?" You answer with the number, which she hears through the receiver strapped to her head and ear. After repeating the number the "hello" girl proceeds to make the connection. If the number required is in the same section of the city she simply reaches for the hole or connection which corresponds with it, with another brass plug, ...
— Stories of Inventors - The Adventures Of Inventors And Engineers • Russell Doubleday
... other end of the line knows English," he said. "I've just told him you wish to speak with him for a minute." I pressed the rubber disk to my ear. "Hello!" I said. ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... the heavily bearded, long-haired, keen-eyed old man sitting on a bench before his cabin, and at the minute gazing down the long barrel of a shot-gun which he had just been cleaning. "Hello, uncle!" ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry
... "Hello, Joey!" she called, and one of the birds came forward, on delicate legs. Its grey spreckled back was very elegant, it rolled its full, dark-blue neck as it moved to her. She crouched down. "Joey dear," she said, in an odd, saturnine caressive voice: "you're bound to find me, ...
— Wintry Peacock - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • D. H. Lawrence
... for you. A party out to meet us (they all come forward, some crashing through the shrubs, breaking down the fence, some walk through flower beds. They come up to the porch). Hello, ladies! (without removing ...
— The Southern Cross - A Play in Four Acts • Foxhall Daingerfield, Jr.
... "Hello," he said, "our fall is being checked. They're making sure their friends come to no harm." And he laughed bitterly, thinking of the men and women lying with lungs ruptured, cold and stiff, in the interior of the Althea; ...
— Pirates of the Gorm • Nat Schachner
... each other. When one went into the garden, the other would stand on the terrace and look at the trees and call: "Hello!" "Genya!" or "Mamma, dear, where are you?" They always prayed together and shared the same faith, and they understood each other very well, even when they were silent. And they treated other people in exactly the same ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff
... in his language, "Hello!" you see. For though Squinty, and his mother and father, and brothers and sisters, could understand man talk, and boy and girl talk, they could not speak that language themselves, but had to ...
— Squinty the Comical Pig - His Many Adventures • Richard Barnum
... there half an hour, totally uncheered by Clark's jovial visits which were each one accompanied by a "Hello, old boy, how you making out?" and a slap at his knee. A dozen males had spoken to him or stopped for a moment beside him, but he knew that they were each one surprised at finding him there and fancied that ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... and beat our rivals on the streets with the first extras. "Why, he's been working to bring that about for the past two weeks. What that System doesn't control isn't worth having—it edits the news before our men get it, and as for grist for the divorce courts, and tragedies, well—Hello, Jenkins, yes, a special extra. Change the big heads—copy is on ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... not forget his resolve. Next morning when Dave Blake ran out his tongue at him and Joe Rolfe said, "Got any chickens to sell?" he laughed with all his might, just to see how it would seem. Both the boys stared; they didn't understand it. "Hello, Chicken Little, ...
— Jimmy, Lucy, and All • Sophie May
... with a chief throwed in to make good weight, to keep me from reachin' Fort Havens with the news that the Apaches are makin' ready to raise Old Ned along the border. Fact is, I do carry big news, that's sartin. Hello!" ...
— Through Apache Lands • R. H. Jayne
... 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
... "Oh, hello, Nan!" cried Nellie. "I didn't expect to see you. Charley said he'd stop for us, but I'm glad you did, too. The Bobbseys are going with us, Mother," Nellie called back to her mother who was looking out ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at Home • Laura Lee Hope
... as they reached the Maynards' veranda. "Hello, Ed. How d'ye do, Helen? Here we are! We're returning your youngsters right side up with care. Why, look who's here!" and catching up Rosy Posy, he tossed her high in the air, to the little ...
— Marjorie at Seacote • Carolyn Wells
... which shows," reflected Harleston, as he returned to bed, "that the telephone people are right in asking you to smile when you say 'hello.'" ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... and a male secretary, who was taking dictation, looked up. The secretary frowned, evidently taken aback by the cavalier entrance, but the Chief said, "Hello, Paul, come on in. Didn't expect you quite so soon." And to ...
— Revolution • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... "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 sure ...
— The Time Traders • Andre Norton
... In the doorway stood the traffic officer. He glanced from Orcutt to the two men near the table. "Hello, Sweeney!" he called, glancing a second ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... when he came in, dearly unsure of himself, and made a valiant but artificial-sounding effort. "Hello men," he said. "My name is ...
— Shock Absorber • E.G. von Wald
... attended to the skirt of her gown that had been badly torn by the brush. Her companions assisted her in pinning it up. While absorbed in this task they had forgotten all about Jasper. They discovered his absence quite suddenly when Miss Elting raised her voice in a loud hello to him. ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas • Janet Aldridge
... pretty way to wake up a fellow who has been planting tobacco till he's stiff," he grumbled. "Is that you, Tom?" He glanced carelessly round, nodding with a kind of friendly condescension to each man of the little group. "How are you, Matthew? Hello, Fred!" ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... 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 ...
— The Book of the Cat • Mabel Humphrey and Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall
... "Hello!" I heard her say. "Yes; speaking. Yes, I was just going to write. Yes; that will do quite well. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920 • Various
... "Hello, boss! Done takin' it easy, I spects. Got any 'jections ter weuns warmin' up a little by dat fiah? Gittin' powful cold, boss, an' it jes' happens we ain't got nary a match in our clo's, dat's a fack," ...
— The House Boat Boys • St. George Rathborne
... you'll have to make it hello and good-by in one breath, mate," advised the skipper. "I'm off to take a light tow down-coast. ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... "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 gorgeousness would ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... "Hello, Russ," whispered a voice, apparently from the outside. "Just lean out here if you want to cool off. ...
— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday
... "Hello, Rad!" called Andy with a show of good feeling. "I haven't seen you in some time. I suppose you're getting too old to travel around with Tom ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... there were less than fivescore of them. They had agreed to elect Ward captain, Martin Culpepper first lieutenant, Jake Dolan second lieutenant. It was one of the diversions of the occasion to call out "Hello, Cap," when Ward hustled by a loitering crowd. But his pride was in his work, and before sundown he had it done. The Yankee in him gave him industry and method and foresight. At sunset the last of the twenty ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... "Hello!" said the artist cheerily. Of course he knew the policeman. In a week he would have known every man and dog ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... with a contented expression, seating himself as if to guard the prize against disturbance; "the boys can't growl over that—hello, where'd ...
— Camp-fire and Wigwam • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... "Hello," greeted the former. "How'd it go? Like old times, wasn't it? Neil, I want you to meet Mr. Cowan. Cowan has quarters up-stairs here. He's an old player, and we've been telling each ...
— Behind the Line • Ralph Henry Barbour
... If he did, it was one of the smartest tricks I ever 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 ...
— The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk • Thornton W. Burgess
... screwdriver waved wildly in the air for a second, and then pointed at Malone. "That's impossible," Mitchell said in a flat, precise voice. "Simply impossible. It doesn't have a pig-Latin circuit. It can't possibly—" He blinked and seemed to see Malone for the first time. "Oh," he said. "Hello, Malone. What can I ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... "Hello, Lyman." His voice came clearly from the speaker, and the Captain gasped—his ultra-wave observer and sometime clerk was Lyman Cleveland himself, probably the greatest living expert in beam transmission! ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... 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
... a great change in Buck as he heard this voice, a marked respect was in his manner as he turned to Jasper. "Hello, Jas," he said. "I ...
— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand
... "Hello, Bob, my boy," said Mr. Fairfield, cordially grasping the hand held out to him. "As I last saw you with features of infantile vacancy, I am glad to start fresh and make ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
... "Hello, Penelles! How do you do? And what's the news? And how is the fishing? I was just bringing Denas ...
— A Singer from the Sea • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... dim and he took the paper to the window. The paragraph was at the end of a column, was encircled by two curved pencil strokes, and on the edge of clean paper below it was written, also in pencil, "Hello, Panchita. Ain't you the wonder. Your best beau's ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner
... "Hello, Charlie Hall!" he cried, at the sight of the shortstop of the Pittston team, with whom Joe had been quite chummy during the league season. "What good ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick
... drive along slow. The farther I went the madder I got, but I was trying to look unconscious, when the end-gate came loose and one of the melons fell out and squashed. Just then a swell girl, all dressed up, comes out of one of the big houses and calls out, 'Hello, boy, you're losing your melons!' Some dudes on the other side of the street took their hats off to her and began to laugh. I couldn't stand it any longer. I grabbed the whip and lit into that team, and they tore up the hill like jack-rabbits, them damned melons bouncing ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... and her mother, and lifted Paul to the ceiling. "Hello, young man!" said he. "If one is four, how ...
— Darrel of the Blessed Isles • Irving Bacheller
... "Hello, Ishikola, you blooming old blighter," was Van Horn's greeting to the old chief, as the dandy, with a pry of his steering-paddle against the side of the canoe and part under its bottom, brought the dug-out broadside-on to the Arangi so that the ...
— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London |
