"Oho" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a face of wild beseeching. "O, my son, call me anything but that! Call me weak and credulous, too easily led and misled! Call me too poetical and confiding! I know I'm more lonely than I dare tell my own son! But I'm not—Oho! ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... if thou be not wary, thou wilt tumble off that giddy height, and find thyself a thrall once more, and maybe a gelding to boot." Now waxed Ralph angry and forgat his prudence, and said: "Yea, but how shall he use me when I am out of reach of his hand?" "Oho, young man," said Otter, "whither away then, to be out ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... "Oho, then we will undertake this adventure together, for that is my errand too. And when the adventure is fulfilled, we will fight together, and the survivor will have the wealth and broad lands and the Count's daughter to sit on his knee. What do ...
— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell
... "Oho!" began Buckbee, but at a glance from Stoddard he drew back and concealed his smirk. Then for half an hour with his most telling arguments and the hypnotic spell of his eyes Whitney Stoddard outdid himself to win ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... "Oho, quelle aristo!" they shouted with ironical astonishment, gazing at the young girl's face, fingering her gown, thrusting begrimed, hate-distorted faces close to ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... "Oho!" said I to myself, with a whistle,—it was a very long whistle, Johnny; I knew well enough then it was no play-work I had before me till the sun went down, nor ...
— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... 'Oho! my daughter,' said the Fairy, 'I see we have no easy task before us. He loves Fiordelisa so much that he will not be easily pacified. I feel sure he will defy us!' Meanwhile the King was waiting ...
— The Green Fairy Book • Various
... "Oho, you want to have fun with him, eh? That's the way the wind blows, is it? I'll just tell Mr. Veath that you pray night and day, and that you don't like to be disturbed. What do you suppose he'd be if he interrupted a woman's ...
— Nedra • George Barr McCutcheon
... furnish the foe with money to carry on a war with the nation, the stripling replied, "Rat the nation!" (God forgive me for repeating such words) "I had rather live under French government than be debarred from French wine." Oho, my youth! if I had you horsed, thinks I again.—But, indeed, Sir John well scourged him with his tongue for that expression, and I should have hoped he had made him ashamed, had not his subsequent behaviour shewn him totally void of grace. For when Sir John asked him for a toast, which you ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding
... despair on the high trees uplifted, Torn cloud flying behind; Whistling wind through the dead leaves drifted; Oho! my mind With you is ...
— A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry • Various
... Prisintly a bell rang, an' they throops off to a big pay-shed. "Where's the white man in charge?" sez I to my kyart-dhriver. "In the shed," sez he, "engaged on a riffle."—"A fwhat?" sez I. "Riffle," sez he. "You take ticket. He take money. You get nothin'."—"Oho!" sez I, "that's fwhat the shuperior an' cultivated man calls a raffle, me misbeguided child av darkness an' sin. Lead on to that raffle, though fwhat the mischief 'tis doin' so far away from uts home—which is the charity-bazar at Christmas, an' the Colonel's wife grinnin' behind the tea-table—is ...
— Soldier Stories • Rudyard Kipling
... kiss!" he persisted. "Oho! You tremble, you shrink like a maiden. I, too, am exhilarated, but—" With a chuckle he folded her in his embrace and she did not resist. After a moment he resumed: "This is quite too amusing. I wish my friends to see and to understand. Put on your ...
— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach
... cried a merry girl, As they rounded the point where Goody Cole Sat by her door with her wheel atwirl, A bent and blear-eyed poor old soul. "Oho!" she muttered, "ye're brave to-day! But I hear the little waves laugh and say, 'The broth will be cold that waits at home; For it's one to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864 • Various
... of the wild wind's kin, Feather ye quick, nor stay. Oh, oho! but the wild winds blow! Babes of mine, it is time to go: Up, dear ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... hin' parts way back yander, to git de quicker at de varmint's throat wid his fo'parts. Back falls Injun, wid a kick an' a yell; off goes gun, wid a kick an' a bang, the bullet a-whizzin' right 'twix' our noses. "Ouch!" ses I. "Ugh!" says Black Thunder. [Audience: "I yi!" "Oho!" "U-gooh!" See Glossary. It may have been a coincidence, but just here Grumbo fetched the stump a ...
— Burl • Morrison Heady
... again," he murmured, gently fondling the stock of his rifle. "Come on, ye devils! Oho!" he cried as a warrior's horse went down in a dog-hole, "I ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White
... "Oho!" cried Tom, with teasing mirth, "still love-making! I tell you what it is, brother Phil, 'tis time you two had eyes for something else besides each other. The town is talking of how engrossed Margaret is in you, that she ignores the existence ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens
... one would. If I should say, "It is now known that he was not the man wanted, but another man—a man who once bore the same name, but discarded it for good reasons"—would that answer? But the Denver people would wake up then and say "Oho!" and they would remember about the suspicious greenbacks, and say, "Why did he run away if he wasn't the right man?—it is too thin." If I failed to find him he would be ruined there—there where there is no taint upon him now. You have a better head ...
— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain
... "Oho, but that's good! What says M. Godin? I say, Allen, Maitland wants to know what 'Frenchy' says," and the pair laughed boisterously. "It's plain enough you don't know," he continued, addressing Maitland. "He's tighter 'n any champagne bottle you ...
— The Darrow Enigma • Melvin L. Severy
... "Oho!" said the Jewess, showing another large black eye. "And you call that—a small sum! However, it's just the same paying it to-day or paying it in a week, but I've had so many payments to make in the last ...
— The Duel and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... "'Oho!' laughed another boy, who had a big scratch on his nose, 'I saw a chickadee flying about among the fir-trees on that very stormy day last week. He sang just as cheerily through the storm.' Then the boy whistled back to ...
— Stories of Birds • Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
... was hidden in the hollow of the tree woke up. "Oho, Master Fox," says she, "I cannot see you, but I smell you! If some folks like lambs, other folks ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... "Oho! we'll make Nastasia Philipovna sing another song now!" giggled Lebedeff, rubbing his hands with glee. "Hey, my boy, we'll get her some proper earrings now! We'll ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes; a tavern where there was nothing to pay; a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper all the year round; a brick and mortar elysium, where it was all play and no work. 'Oho!' said the board, looking very knowing, 'we are the fellows to set this to rights; we'll stop it all, in no time.' So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, ...
— Queen Victoria • E. Gordon Browne
... least expect it. And you lied to yourself in the beginning, a passive sort of falsehood, in merely refusing to see the truth and groping for the unreal. You had to justify your race for wealth, so you said, 'Oho, I'll love a story-book princess and let that be my incentive. Story-book princesses are expensive lovelies and you have to have money bags to jingle before their fair selves!' So you became more and more infatuated with the fairy-book ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... "Oho!" thought Mrs Polsue to herself, and for just a moment her frame shook with a dry inward spasm; but not a muscle of her face twitched. Aloud she said: "Well, in your place I shouldn't be so hot, at short notice, to stand up for a man who on your own showing is ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... Oho! Well, we'll see. (Posing himself to overwhelm Napoleon with his news.) He swore eternal brotherhood with me. Was that nothing? He said my eyes reminded him of his sister's eyes. Was that nothing? He cried—actually cried—over the story of my separation ...
— The Man of Destiny • George Bernard Shaw
... "Oho! Is that all?" Mr. Herbert spoke cheerfully. "This trouble can soon be healed. Come, dear, and let us see what I can ...
— Home Lights and Shadows • T. S. Arthur
... "Oho!" said Cleek in two different tones. "One of that sort is he? Not content with a fortune won by profiteering, he must try and ruin others; and having failed to get hold of your list of clients, he tries the bogus theft game, and gambles on that. Hmm! Well, ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various
... Oho! beggin' from my son-in-law. We know that kind o' thing! He ain't got nothin'; everything he's got he gets from us. Nothin' ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann
... 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 just wait. Perhaps some foolish animal will drag that head ...
— Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox • Thomas Clark Hinkle
... Oho! Little did she know her lad. The colored boy smiled to himself—sweeping and dusting were his specialties—he had learned the trade from a Yankee ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard
... young Tiziano from Cadore into his shop, right out of a glass-factory, and made him a great artist, getting him commissions and introducing him everywhere! And how about the divine Giorgione who called him father? Oho! ...
— The Mintage • Elbert Hubbard
... pocket-handkerchief. For a stranger he displayed—so it struck Nora—a surprising knowledge of the locality. He pointed out that Mount Purcell was seven miles away, and that the village of Drinagh, where he was putting up—("Oho! so he's the inspector Sir Thomas was going to be so civil to!" thought the younger Miss Purcell with an inward grin)—was only two ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross
... was more, and a 'where' in the bargain, and that I didn't hear. Aha! by George! thinks I, old Bob, you're a lucky beggar, and be hanged if I wouldn't go mad too for a minute or so of short, sweet, private talk with a lovely young widow lady as ever the sun did shine upon so boldly—oho! ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... "Oho!" said Charles; and he gathered his feet under him and looked at me more closely. I met his eyes fairly ...
— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson
... "Oho!" said Cleek. "Then it is only when they are dressed and made up for the performance, eh? Hum-m-m! I see." Then he lapsed into silence for a moment, and sat tracing circles on the floor with the toe of his boot. But, of a sudden: "You came here directly after the matinee, I suppose?" ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various
... "Oho! that's a gooseberry pie of a different flavor," said I, coolin off; "why dident you say so before?" and I pinted for the offis to ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 33, November 12, 1870 • Various
... "Oho!" said Dick; and then he pulled his sword from its scabbard, and I could see the battle-veins swelling in his forehead. "They can hang me when I am too dead to cut ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... Sansthanaka. Oho! she mishtook my cart for another? and did n't come to shee me? Get out of my cart, get out! You 're going to visit your poor merchant's shon, are you? Those are my bullocks you 're driving. Get out, get out, you shlave! Get out, ...
— The Little Clay Cart - Mrcchakatika • (Attributed To) King Shudraka
... "Oho!" cried Adrian. "It's Madame Torrebianca that you 've been raving about. Ah, yes. Oh, I concede at once that Madame Torrebianca is very nice too. None readier than I to do her homage. But for fun and devilment give me Peebles. ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... "Oho ...!" The engraver stretched himself, disengaged himself, so to speak, from his own ego, and looked challengingly down the table. His eye fell upon the beautiful girl who had given him her heart. He was aware of her deadly pallor, of her eyes fixed desperately upon him. "God help me—that ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various
... "Oho! Then there are more than one of you, my beauty!" cried Dickenson. "Now then, this is a gag; hold still or ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... Charon gone mad and bit you? Oho! by all the dead gods of Greece, Guy has come home. Where is he? Where ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans
... "Oho! is that the game?" said Governor Manco; he gave orders, and immediately a gibbet was reared on the verge of the great beetling bastion that overlooked the Plaza. "Now," said he, in a message to the captain-general, "hang my soldier when you please; but at the same time that ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... to be discharged, when the lady whom he had accused declared she would swear the peace against him, for that he had called her a whore several times. "Oho! you will swear the peace, madam, will you?" cries the justice: "Give her the peace, presently; and pray, Mr. Constable, secure the prisoner, now we have him, while a warrant is made to take him up." All which ...
— Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding
... "Oho!" exclaimed Flaggan, in a low tone, "that clears up wan or two things that's been puzzlin' me. I've bin thinkin' that the ship I saw lave the port was British, but the weather bein' thick I cudn't quite make out her colours. Then, I've been sore perplexed to account ...
— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Oho! so it's the folks themselves that have placed you here," said Caesar. "Then it is surely their intention to cure you; although, for my part, I think it would be wiser for them to eat you up, since ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof
... "Oho! An' you mean thar'll be towns grow up overnightall full of bad people who ain't workin' on the railroad, but jest ...
— The U.P. Trail • Zane Grey
... horse! When I took leave of my father, the old man said, 'Perhaps I shall pay you a visit, little one, when they light the Christmas-tree.' 'You'll never be able,' said I. 'Why not?' asked he. 'You'll never trust yourself in any post-chaise.' Then the old boy cried, 'Oho! post-chaises are always of a stout build; I shall be sure to trust myself in one.' But now, Mr. Anton, I see that my father never can ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... "Oho, helmsman, you dare to order this boy to be insubordinate, do you? I'll have you put in irons for your impudence," cried Redfox, giving him a ...
— The Shipwreck - A Story for the Young • Joseph Spillman
... "Oho!" said Dunsey, turning his head on one side, and trying to speak in a small mincing treble. "And there's sweet Miss Nancy coming; and we shall dance with her, and promise never to be naughty again, and be ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot
... "Oho-oho-oho" was familiar to both as the cry of the Horned Owl, but a strange long wail rang ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... "Oho! you can look foolish enough now, you old vagabond! Did you think to impose on me with lamentations?" resumed the burgomaster, advancing towards Dagobert. "Thanks be, I am no longer your dupe!—You shall see ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... 'Oho! It is the jungle brat, is it?' said Buldeo. 'If thou art so wise, better bring his hide to Khanhiwara, for the Government has set a hundred rupees on his life. Better still, talk not when ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling
... under the sea, cried James Brahier, our chief mate; let her drive. To prayers, to prayers; let all think on their souls, and fall to prayers; nor hope to escape but by a miracle. Let us, said Panurge, make some good pious kind of vow; alas, alas, alas! bou, bou, be, be, be, bous, bous, bous, oho, oho, oho, oho, let us make a pilgrim; come, come, let every man club his penny towards it, come on. Here, here, on this side, said Friar John, in the devil's name. Let her drive, for the Lord's sake unhang the rudder; hoh, ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... "'Oho!'said the Dutchman. 'It's a rare big one, though. How muckle might ye be expectin' to get for it across ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... my sister, our appointed curse. To love the man, and to know the man loves just the lips and eyes Youth lends to us—oho, for such a little while! Yes, it is cruel. And therefore we are cruel—always in thought and, when ...
— Domnei • James Branch Cabell et al
... matter concerned the interest of the whole Gallican church, they could not themselves decide about it, and that the church, assembled in national council, alone had the right of pronouncing judgment. "Oho! so you cannot," said the king; "I will soon let you see that you can, or I will send you all to Rome to give the pope your reasons." To the question of conscience the Parliament found thenceforth added the ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume IV. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... "Oho! Isn't there, sir! Don't you run away with that idea. There's a lot. It seems nothing to you because things go so easy with you and the guv'nor. You find your clean shirts and fresh socks all ready laid out at the proper time, and you put 'em on just as ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... that grim reception in the other world which Shakspeare's squib foreboded for him. By-the-by, till I grew somewhat familiar with Warwickshire pronunciation, I never understood that the point of those ill-natured lines was a pun. "'Oho!' quoth the Devil, ''tis my John a' Combe!'"—that is, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 63, January, 1863 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... The peddler laughed. "Oho, then he's jealous! All the better for me—the Councillor was jealous too, wasn't he?" Nanette looked at him ...
— The Case of the Golden Bullet • Grace Isabel Colbron, and Augusta Groner
... exclaimed "the skipper," as he studied the two mastheads attentively. "A liner, I should say, by the length of her between her masts. Probably an 'Orient,' 'Orient-Pacific,' or 'X. and Z.' boat. But surely she did not fire that gun? And, if she did not—oho! what is this? There is another craft astern of her! I can just make out her mastheads rising above the horizon. Now, did number two fire that gun; and, if so, why? I must get my glasses; this promises to be interesting. And we shall see more of it presently; they are crossing our hawse in ...
— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... "'Oho, ma'am!' says I; 'things is come to a mighty purty pass when quality folks has to go frum house to house a-huntin' up pore white trash, an' a-astin' airter the'r kin. Tooby shore! tooby shore! Yessum, a mighty purty pass,' ...
— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris
... "Oho! So we don't like our new master, don't we? Haven't forgotten our blooming gruellin', eh? Better take care we don't get some more o' the same sort, Mister Wolfhound, if ...
— Finn The Wolfhound • A. J. Dawson
... "Oho! So that's it. Knight-errantry, eh? Now, let me put this thing to you straight, Mr. Harrington Surtaine. If your father wants to make a fair and decent statement, without abuse or calling names, over his own signature, the 'Clarion' will run it, ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... "Oho!" answered the stranger. "Well, tell me all about it and possibly I may be of service to you. I have helped a good many young men through adventures that looked difficult enough beforehand. Perhaps you may have heard of me. I have more names than one, but the name of Quicksilver suits ...
— Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy - Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls • Various
... "Oho!" thought I to myself, "then I am to be kept for the mare's sake, but not admitted to the house:" and said aloud that I could put up ...
— The Splendid Spur • Arthur T. Quiller Couch
... "Oho! With all my heart!" And we caught up with Frances Sutherland and for the first time that day I dared to look at her face. If there were tear marks about the wondrous eyes, they were the marks of the shower after a sun-burst, the laughing gladness of life in golden ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... "Oho!" said Boyd, with an oath. "I'm damned if I care for barracks when a bed in the open is good enough. Why the devil have they moved ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... "Oho!" thinks I, "friend, ye cannot be a Christian from your lingo, that's one thing poz; and I would wager tippence you're a Frenchy. Who kens, keep us all, but ye may be Buonaparte himself in disguise, come over in a flat-bottomed boat to spy the nakedness of the land. So ye may just rest content, ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir
... distant relations, would leave their fiddling, dukkerin, and horse-dealing, and come flocking about me. "What's the matter, Ursula?" says my coko. "Nothing at all," I replies, "save and except that gorgio, in his greens and his Lincolns, says that I have played the —- with him." "Oho, he does, Ursula," says my coko, "try your action of law against him, my lamb," and he puts something privily into my hands; whereupon I goes close up to the grinning gorgio, and staring him in the face, with my head pushed forward, I cries ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... "Oho!" he exclaimed; "I know the place now. This was probably the home of Mr. Yoop, a terrible giant whom I have seen confined in a cage, a long way from here. Therefore this castle is likely to be empty and we may use it ...
— The Tin Woodman of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... "Oho!" exclaimed the Justice, smirking. "And I notice that it is the ring-finger too! That augurs something good. You doubtless know that when an unmarried girl helps an engaged one to sew her bridal linen, and in doing it pricks her ring-finger, it means that she herself is ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... intense relief. An instant after his brow wrinkled itself. "Oho!" he thought. "So this ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... "Oho!" he laughed, "it is very easy," and snatching up a little assegai that lay beside him, he proffered it to me, adding, "Be brave now and fall on that. Then before I have counted sixty the road will be wide open, but whether you will see anything on ...
— She and Allan • H. Rider Haggard
... frightening every one he met, for they all took him to be a lion, men and beasts alike, and took to their heels when they saw him coming. Elated by the success of his trick, he loudly brayed in triumph. The Fox heard him, and recognised him at once for the Ass he was, and said to him, "Oho, my friend, it's you, is it? I, too, should have been afraid if ...
— Aesop's Fables • Aesop
... "Oho!" thought Mark, "I begin to see; you are a rebel." Then, aloud, "Your country, then, is governed by ...
— The Fugitives - The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Oho!" he said with a smile. "Stella's coming over and I know nothing of it. Mr. Thresk's lazy, so remains at Little Beeding and delivers a lecture to me over breakfast. And you, father, ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
... rot, I hope?" said the bailiff sympathetically. "Let's look at you a little, poor fellow." He whipped off the quilt. "Oho, so you're in bed with your best things on—and top-boots! It's your grave-clothes, perhaps? And I suppose you were going out to order a pauper's grave for yourself, weren't you? It's time we got you put underground, too; seems to me ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... "Oho! that is how the land lies, is it? I'm a thick-headed clod, or I would have suspected something of that sort when Mary pulled me down so sharply as I was cursing you at the front door." Then, with a slight touch of patronage in his ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane
... "Ha! oho! I see the whole affair—there are never but five men on duty here at night." "Rash, hot-headed creature! there will be no occasion for such madness. Even if you should escape from prison, and reach your ship in safety, which ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames
... 'Oho!' Arkady thought to himself, and then in a flash all the fathomless depths of Bazarov's conceit dawned upon him. 'Are you and I gods then? at least, you're a god; am not I ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
... green man." "That was a huntsman." "After that I saw a blood-red man." "That was a butcher." "Ah, Frau Trude, I was terrified; I looked through the window and saw not you, but, as I verily believe, the devil himself with a head of fire." "Oho!" said she, "then thou hast seen the witch in her proper costume. I have been waiting for thee, and wanting thee a long time already; thou shalt give me some light." Then she changed the girl into a block of wood, and threw it into the fire. And when it was ...
— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers
... "Oho! oho! oho!" sang Hal, taking the child up in his arms and putting on his hat. "You follow me; we'll have some sport. Tally ho! tally ho!" And away we went, Hal heading our procession through the streets, shouting a rollicking song, the baby staring ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... pleasure and surprize, but the want of money occurred to me as an insuperable objection. On this being mentioned, Oho! said he, carelessly, that objection is easily removed, I will bear all expenses ...
— Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist - (A Fragment) • Charles Brockden Brown
... asleep; I know. You're mightily taken up about young Mr. Alving—[More softly.] Oho! you don't mean to say it's ...
— Ghosts • Henrik Ibsen
... "Oho, you're both up there now, are you?" he snapped. "That's why you didn't go to the depot, is it? Well, how has the ...
— The Day of the Dog • George Barr McCutcheon
... entering the garden hastily; "let me see. Oho! this may throw some light on the matter. Did ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne
... for a few moments buried in thought. "Oho," he muttered to himself, "can I not turn all this to my account? Can I not avenge myself on thee, Zanoni, as I have so often sworn,—through thy wife and child? Can I not possess myself of thy gold, thy passports, ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... "Oho! We are going to spend the night here." Mattresses were brought in, which were thrown on the tables, ...
— The History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness • Victor Hugo
... fell on Lorraine, leaning against a tree, her blanched face half hidden under the masses of her hair. "Oho!" he said—"a woman!" ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers
... thus employed, the Prince's godmother, who was a great favourite with those servants, looked in upon them continually all day long, and whenever she popped in her head at the door said, How do you do, my children? What are you doing here?' 'Official business, godmother.' 'Oho!' says this wicked Fairy. '- Tape!' And then the business all went wrong, whatever it was, and the servants' heads became so addled and muddled that they thought ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens
... lips in until her mouth looked like a dimple in her face. "Oho! That's it, is it? He's neglected you, and now you ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett
... seating herself at the piano, she dashed off, with voice and instrument, "The Campbells are coming, Oho! Oho!" ...
— A Romance of the Republic • Lydia Maria Francis Child
... Oho! folk know Black Roger's name hereabouts. I carry ever a noose at my girdle here—behold it!" and he showed a coil of rope ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol
... "Oho," thought I, "then I'm not going to market empty-handed! If I want to buy, it seems that I have something to sell." And smiling very ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope
... "Oho!" said the hostler, his scowl growing fiercer. "Yer means bizness, does yer?" With that he sent Sleepy Sol staggering along the road and rolled up his shirt-sleeves. ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... 'Oho!' said Michael queerly. 'You say your uncle is dangerously ill, and you won't compromise? There's something very ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne |
