"Hello" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from behind the parasol, saw Conniston and called a hearty "Hello, Con!" to him. And Conniston turned his horse and rode back to ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory
... Bunker. "I've had quite a loss! It's some valuable real estate papers. They are gone from my office, and I came to see if they were on my desk in the house. Hello, children!" he called to the six little Bunkers. But even Mun Bun seemed to know that something was wrong. Daddy Bunker's voice was ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's • Laura Lee Hope
... "Hello!" a voice replied. "Is that you, Beth? You know you're too big to be on the yacht now without ...
— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand
... off and was poring over a large black-on-white schematic when I was shown in by sniffin' Sylvia. "Hello, Mike," he growled. "Here, Sylvia. Mike's not supposed to see this stuff. Drag it away, honey. Drag ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman
... "Oh, hello, Russ; is that you?" was the cordial greeting. "How is the patent? I could use it if I had it now. Spare a minute? Yes, several of 'em. They've spoiled that one act and it's got to be done over. I don't see why they can't do as they're ...
— The Moving Picture Girls - First Appearances in Photo Dramas • Laura Lee Hope
... and the ice is as hard and black as it can be. Hello, who's this? Haw-haw! I thowt you'd want yours done," he added, as he heard steps coming over the frozen ground, and the jingle of skates knocking together. "It's young Tom Tallington, Mester Dick. Come, you two ought to mak friends now, ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn
... to explain with gusto, while the whole table listened. "Lou Collingwood and Carrie here and I were in front of the Study, and out came Mr. Upton. And Lou wanted to nail him for the Pythians, so we all pranced up to him, and I said, 'Hello, new kid; what name, please?'—just like ...
— The Jester of St. Timothy's • Arthur Stanwood Pier
... 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.] Serve her joll' well right—everything droppin' out. Th' cat. I 've ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... "I said 'Hello!' and then he jumped like he was shot. I asked him his name, and he said he was named Blue Dave, and he begged me so hard I promised not to tell he was up there. And then, after that, he used to come in the garret and tell me no end of tales, and I've got a trunk full of chestnuts ...
— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris
... "Hello!" he began, thrusting his hand into his overcoat pockets. "By the way, while I think of it, I just passed Miss Moran coming from the dressing-room, and suddenly that name came back to me, the name of her husband. It was a peculiar ...
— Tales From Bohemia • Robert Neilson Stephens
... would sneak along the gunwale, following an intoxicating trail until he planted himself in front of the galley of the neighboring boat, breathing in its rich perfume. "Hello, brothers!" Impossible to fool him, they were probably Spaniards and, if not, they were from Genoa or Naples,—in short, were compatriots accustomed to live and eat in all latitudes just as though they were in ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... men, who had left their families so unprepared twelve months before, who cared to return home; for some of the young men, who were under the conscript age, refused to leave. Those who had to return received a lot of good-natured badgering at their sudden return to the army. "Hello, boys, when did you get back? What's the news at home?" "How did you find all?" were some of the soothing jeers the "returned sinners" had to endure; and as so great a number had expressed a desire to join the cavalry, not a few were asked: "Did you bring your horses with you?" ...
— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert
... freshened up by being soaked for a long time in warm water), and he had already secured a tame official to glance graciously into the luggage. After shaking heartily the small bag of bones that was his father's hand, and saying "Hello, Dad! How's yourself? How's mother? How's everything?" Peter was free for a few minutes to ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... slipped swiftly within the cabin. A moment later Hale heard the galloping of a horse and from out the dark woods loped a horseman with a Winchester across his saddle bow. He pulled in at the gate, but before he could shout "Hello" the Red Fox had stepped from the porch into the moonlight and was going to meet him. Hale had never seen a more easy, graceful, daring figure on horseback, and in the bright light he could make out the reckless face of the man who had been the first to flash ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.
... see that thar's every reason for hope. So up with your 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
... "but them's Mrs. Haxton's very words as I helped her up the ship's ladder. Hello! Where's the fire? Unless I'm much mistaken, young feller, there's a first-class row goin' on outside our bloomin' cafe. No, no, don't you butt in among Arabs as though you was strollin' down Edgware Road on a ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... to him, you women slide out the back door," muttered Scott, hurriedly. "Make for the stream and the horses while they're watching us. Hello, out there, what do you want?" ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... "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! "I knew that you'd do something, if it could be done. How about it—can the others ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... evening, squire, I went down into the village to buy some 'bacca. Just as I got back to the gate, out runs a boy. It was too dark for me to see his face, but I naturally supposed it were Reuben, so I said, 'Hello, Reuben, how's the leg?' But the moment I spoke, he turned off from ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty
... "Hello, Johnny Frenchman!" called Ned Trent, in his acid tones. "That you? Be more polite, or I'll stand here and sing you ...
— Conjuror's House - A Romance of the Free Forest • Stewart Edward White
... called Headquarters. "Recognise it!" With the receiver to his ear, waiting for his connection, he turned toward Kenleigh. "Why, say, walk over to the Bowery and show it to the first person you meet, and he'd call the turn. Pretty, isn't it? When he's dolled up, he's some—hello!" He swung around to the telephone. "Headquarters?... Meighan speaking from Kenleigh's apartment... Get a drag out for the Magpie on the jump.... Eh?... Yes!... Left his visiting card.... What?... Yes, wound a mattress around ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... "Hello, Bart! If the fish don't bite to-day they ought to be ashamed o' themselves," said Mr. Wright, who stood in the dooryard in an old suit of clothes which belonged ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller
... "Hello, General," was his crisp greeting as he dropped into the chair which the astute old gentleman had placed, with premeditation, close to his own some time before. He went straight to the point. "I've been thinking over what you said the ...
— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon
... "Hello, there!" he hailed, reining in before the tunnel; and after a minute the man rose up with his pistol poised over his shoulder. It was Dave, Murray's gun-man, and at sight of his enemy Denver was swept with ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge
... he stopped and spoke to a policeman. "Hello!" said the man, and shook his head—"No, not this time." So the boy went on; there were several miles of this Highway, and each ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... Anthony opened his eyes. "Hello! Are you the clerk?" Instead of the bell-hop he had expected he beheld a man in ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... warned Freye. "Here's a point. Cressler is not to know by the longest kind of chalk; anyhow not until he's so far in, he can't pull out. He and Jadwin are good friends, I'm told. Hello, it's raining a little. Well, I've got to be moving. See you at ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... put it unobserved in a place of safety. When I had carefully locked my trunk, I tiptoed toward the door with the intention of going out to look for a decent restaurant where I might get something fit to eat. As I was easing the door open, my porter friend said with a yawn: "Hello! You're going out?" I answered him: "Yes." "Oh!" he yawned again, "I guess I've had enough sleep; wait a minute, I'll go with you." For the instant his friendship bored and embarrassed me. I had visions of another meal in the greasy ...
— The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man • James Weldon Johnson
... propositions and special offers of the world's best authors," he grumbled. "Promoters and publishers seem to consider the small post office the natural breeding ground for suckers. Maybe they're right, too. Hello! ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... deliberately up the hill to the house, his daughter-in-law and grandchild came out on the doorstep. "Hello, Lucil; hello, ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... man than yourself?" I answered, "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 ...
— Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag • S. O. Susag
... "'Hello,' says he, 'I reckon here's something.' When he spoke, the acorn fell out of his mouth and rolled down on the roof. He didn't care; his mind was on the ...
— The Ontario Readers - Third Book • Ontario Ministry of Education
... it. "I shouldn't hev troubled ye, nor ridden three mile to do it, if ther hed been any one else to send. But Dad's over at Eureka, buying logs, and I'm alone. Hello—wher yer goin'?" ...
— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte
... the variety of its constitution—and the verandah by the sea, where the big telescope stands, is a perpetual feast of the Pentecost. The population of the club changes with each steamer in harbour, for the sea-captains swing in, are met with 'Hello! where did you come from?' and mix at the bar and billiard-tables for their appointed time and go to sea again. The white-painted warships supply their contingent of members also, and there are wonderful men, mines of most fascinating adventure, ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... it. Wears a man out," and Mr. Giddings sagely nodded his head. "Course you are going up to the game to-day. Come along with me. Special car with a big bunch of your old pals inside. They'll be tickled to death to find I've dug you out of your hole. Hello! Is that this morning's paper? Let me look at the sporting page. Great team at New Haven, they tell me. What's the latest odds? I put up a thousand at five to three last week and am looking for ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... himself time to dissipate his courage in reflection, he walked to the landing, and called down the stairs, "Hello, Auntie!" ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett
... tinker's dam who you are," he growled before he had made out the features before him, "it's a blasted outrage! Hello, Don, what in thunder brings you out at this time of night? You look white, man, what's ...
— The Seventh Noon • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... tarpaulin taut, but I wasn't sure. I was in that dozy state, half asleep, when nothing is quite clear. It seemed as though I had been listening to the tramp of feet for hours and that a whole army must be filing past, when I was brought suddenly into keen consciousness by a loud voice demanding, "Hello! Whose outfit is this?" "This is the 7 Up,—Louderer's," the boss called back; "what's wanted?" "Is that you, Mat? This is Ward's posse. We been after Meeks and Murdock all night. It's so durned dark we ...
— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart
... "Hello! Hello! This line makes me perfectly furious. To-morrow about three o'clock—you're to give us tea and things, some nice place—Granny and me. Be along in the car. I remember the ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
... "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 ...
— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos
... 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 the ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... had hardly finished reading this extraordinary letter when he heard a cry from the boat lying by the side of the yacht in which the three men were waiting, expecting to go back to the other vessel with an answer. "Hello!" cried Mr. Burdette. "She's getting under ...
— Mrs. Cliff's Yacht • Frank R. Stockton
... "Why, hello, Jim!" he called out. "Where you been hidin' yourself lately? Ain't seen you for a week o' Sundays. Come across and pass the time ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... near the desk waved a paper and shouted: "Hello, Dave! News for you, son. I'll come up." The speaker ...
— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine
... "Hello, Dick! made a mistake, didn't you—coming while I was here?" said the reformer, with a very lifelike replica of his father's grim smile. "I suppose you have an immediate engagement to go somewhere else, or to do something that will give you ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
... "Say hello to Kenny for me, won't you? Tell him I'm brown and lean already, and that I like the fortunes of ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... "Hello, Jim!" exclaimed Carleton, turning quickly at the touch on his shoulder. "I've only played with a dish or two. I was waiting for you, really." He got up, and rather shyly introduced the party to his ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... she murmured, filling her embrace with a soft perfume of hair, which somehow stifled the "Hello, duckie" on ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... in the effort to decide whether she could fluff it up sufficiently to serve for the evening or whether she must take it down and redress it. At Linda's step in the doorway she turned a smiling face upon her and cried: "Hello, little sister, come in and tell ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... 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, is ...
— The Love Story of Abner Stone • Edwin Carlile Litsey
... to; for Edison, in addition to inventing the apparatus, has often had to coin the word to describe it. A large number of the words and phrases in modern electrical parlance owe their origin to him. Even the "call-word" of the telephone, "Hello!" sent tingling over the wire a few million times daily was taken from Menlo Park by men installing telephones in different parts of the world, men who had just learned it at the laboratory, and thus made it a ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... "Hello, Dick," came from them all at once in a roar of welcome, for it was the first time they had seen him since he had rescued them from their German captors, and their feelings toward him were of ...
— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall
... telephone-girl, and Mr Goble's stenographer. Beyond this was the door marked "Private," through which, as it opened to admit some careless, debonair, thousand-dollar-a-week comedian who sauntered in with a jaunty "Hello, Ike!" or some furred and scented female star, the rank and file of the profession were greeted, like Moses on Pisgah, with a fleeting glimpse of the promised land, consisting of a large desk and a section of a very ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... 'Hello!' he said, as we appeared. He jerked a thumb towards the classroom. 'I've locked dem in. What's doin', Buck?' he asked, indicating me with ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... boy, who had visited this isle, on his return to shores where turtle are less numerous, sought to impress his master with the substantial charms of the faraway North. "When," he said, "you come close up, you look out. Hello! You think about stone. ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
... 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
... "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 ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... "Hello!" he said. "We thought you were never coming. Say, you make all the other girls look like nothing at all." He was supposed to be talking to them all, but he was ...
— Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island - The Mystery of the Wreck • Janet D. Wheeler
... my footing and stumble against the door and on the other side someone says "Hello, ...
— The Lost Kafoozalum • Pauline Ashwell
... When I'm winning?" he expostulated. "Rather not!" Then, catching sight of her face, "Hello! You look tired. Are ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... carefully instructed in the proper manner of entering a parlor, but it was with the greatest embarrassment that he sought Sally in her kitchen. She stood at the sink, her arms plunged into a steaming dish pan, and saluted him with a cheery hello. ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson
... Trumpeter. "He is ready to jump, I think. Hello there, Jack!" he called to the toy on the top ...
— The Story of a China Cat • Laura Lee Hope
... on Searcy Chilton. After waiting a short while he was admitted to his private office. "Well! Hello Saylor! When did you get in? What do you want? How are things going in the Eleventh this fall? We must have thirty-five ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt
... "Hello!" exclaimed one of them, in surprise at the sight of the ball player. "Where'd you come from? Is the ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick
... 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
... 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 way. Ekaterina Pavlovna also soon got used to me and became attached to me, and ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff
... "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 ...
— The Edge of the Knife • Henry Beam Piper
... "Hello, Phil! Great, isn't it?" exclaimed Dickey, and Dorothy realized that Quentin was somewhere behind her in the little rock-bound circle among the clouds. A chill fell upon her heart, and she would not turn toward the man whose very name brought ...
— Castle Craneycrow • George Barr McCutcheon
... a brief moment for the blankness in his eyes to fade into life. "Hello Kennedy, you on already? Seems like I just got here." He muttered in self-contradiction, "Or that I've been ...
— Adaptation • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... said, then her smile widened. "Hello!" (But I don't have to say it, do I? I can talk to you just the way I talk to Daddy and Uncle Whitney and ...
— The Sound of Silence • Barbara Constant
... to her confounded dinner. That's settled. I can't do it, you know, and be on time for the wedding. Deuce take it, what does she take a fellow for? Hello, here comes the chap that Dauntless introduced to us this morning." Derby was approaching with a warm and ingratiating smile. "What's his name? ...
— The Flyers • George Barr McCutcheon
... You put a thing to your ear and say 'Hello,' and then some one says 'Hello,' and ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... offensive. Colonel Fitz Shrapnel in his dug-out with a telephone at Battalion Headquarters, his dug-out being blown to pieces, a shell bursting on the top of it. He received an urgent message from G.H.Q. "Hello, hello! Please let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of raspberry jam issued to you last Friday." Just like the staff. They will stand up in the middle of an attack to know when your return of trained farriers will be in. ...
— Letters from France • Isaac Alexander Mack
... accident is likely to happen. Jones is buying records for the family phonograph. One may judge of his particular stage of musical evolution by his purchases, which are: "Meet me in St. Louis, Louis," "Dance of the Honey Bells," "Hello Central, Give me Heaven," "Fashion Plate March," and "I Know that I'll be Happy when I Die." He also notices in the catalogue a piece called "Tannhaeuser March," and, after some hesitation, buys this as well, because the name ...
— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler
... "Hello, Patty," cried Mona, springing up to greet her. "My, how fine you're looking! Lakewood agrees with you all right. And Patty, the bridesmaids are going to sing, after all. Will you be home in time for one ...
— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells
... "Hello, old man!" Frank cried, with genuine pleasure, as Mr. de Peyster came forward. "I found so many messages from you, I fear the worst. You're wanting me to stand up with you, I ...
— Katrine • Elinor Macartney Lane
... "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 wind ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick
... me. But perhaps we only imagine it. Hello, here comes Mr. Baker with the mail! We ought to hear from ...
— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton
... have we in those banks?... Hello! I want Bryant 1146, yes, the Metropolitan Opera.... Hello! Please have Mr. Carter brought from his box to the 'phone. This is Hamilton Burton, talking ... a matter that can't wait.... Tarring, I must have the stock those banks hold. You must have ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... underbrush across the clearing caught his quick ear, and he looked up to see Jombateeste parting the boughs of the young pines on its edge and advancing into the open with a gun on his shoulder. He called to him, cheerily: "Hello, ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... "Hello!" he said. "What's struck you? You are breathing as if you had been running, but you're rather pale ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish
... "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! you have been through the mill," said Paul, brightly. "If I thought that it would do any good, be of any use, I would mentally plump on my knees and say to you that Ellenora Vibert is unlike any woman I ever met." Ellenora half rose from the table, ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... "Hello, Henry! I thought I wouldn't start in working till you got here. I didn't want to haf to come all the way downstairs again to open the door and hi'st our good ole ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... big, husky carcass around here behind the desk so the door can open." She flipped a switch and punched a number. "I can call anybody in here, any time, you know. Hello, dear, this is Teddy. Can you come in for just a few minutes? Thanks." And, one minute later, there came a light tap on ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith
... "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, but Reddy had pretended that ...
— The Adventures of Johnny Chuck • Thornton W. Burgess
... "Hello within there!" he said in a low voice. "Here is the bucket of water; come and take it, for I ...
— Pinocchio in Africa • Cherubini
... Enfants, watching the man turn the muffins. She opened a collapsed little purse and poked about in it for an instant and then shut it again and turned away. Before I knew what I meant to do, I heard myself saying, "Hello! I saw you just now at the Booking Office, didn't I? I wish you'd come in and have some coffee and butter ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... 'Hello!' he exclaimed in surprise, seeing her standing there with the valise in her hand, and marks of tears on her face. She was one who wept without showing many ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... frets me, Mr. Graham. I've got my man practically in the chair, but from a professional point of view it isn't a pretty piece of work until I find out how he got in and out of that room. The thing seems impossible, and yet here we are, knowing that he did it. Well, maybe I'll find out to-night. Hello!" ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
... exclaimed Arline as, turning into College Street, the long green slope, broken at intervals by magnificent old trees, burst upon their view. "Hello, Overton Hall!" she cried, waving her hand to that stately building. "Doesn't the campus look like green plush, though! I love every inch of it, don't you?" She looked at her companions and, seeing the light from her face reflected on theirs, needed no verbal answer to her ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... it aloud. It cheered one up in the storm, and the lilt of it kept time to the leaping kind of gallop which is the easiest way to run on snowshoes: "Bye, baby bunting; bye, baby bunting—Hello!" ...
— Wilderness Ways • William J Long
... 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 talk ...
— Squinty the Comical Pig - His Many Adventures • Richard Barnum
... "Why, hello!" he greeted me cheerfully. "Going through to France? Glad to see you—but you're about the last man that I was looking for. I got the idea somehow you were planning to ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... "Hello, Dad," he said a moment later. "Yes, that's right. It's the prodigal himself. Now, listen, Dad, here's something important. Can you meet me in Sacramento and arrange for us to see the Governor—get his private, confidential ear? I'll beat it for Los Angeles—charter ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin
... Hello, Sally Heffer! Where have you been?" Girls crowded about. "What's the news? Where ...
— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim
... "Hello! Frank, my boy!" he exclaimed, as the two came rushing in. "So Ted managed to round you up in great style; did he? Well, I always said Ted was the sharpest fellow on the range when it came to finding things. Where ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson
... stock in a contrivance for carrying the human voice on an electric wire. At almost any other time Clemens would eagerly have welcomed this opportunity; but he was so gratified at having got his money out of the insurance venture that he refused to respond to the happy "hello" call of fortune. In some memoranda made thirty ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... before Messenio (with marvelous cunning!) hits on the true explanation. It is of course conceived in a burlesque spirit. What would become of the comic action if Menaechmus II simply walked up to Menaechmus I and remarked: "Hello, brother, ...
— The Dramatic Values in Plautus • William Wallace Blancke
... girl left,—Theresa, a big, clean-lookin' child that I see grow up fr'm hello to good avnin'. She thought on'y iv th' ol' man, an' he leaned on her as if she was a crutch. She was out to meet him in th' ev'nin'; an' in th' mornin' he, th' simple ol' man, 'd stop to blow a kiss at her an' wave his dinner-pail, ...
— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne
... "Hello, Rushcroft," he greeted, as if meeting an old time and greatly beloved friend. "This IS good. 'Pon my soul, you are like a thriving date palm in the middle of an endless desert. ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
... "Hello!" he said, briskly; "seems to be catching don't it? Our new doctor over in Mechanicsburg says one disease can be cured by a dose of the same sort of trouble. He's different from the old fashioned kind of doctors. I heard ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... "Hello, Skinner. Sit down." He paused a moment to register his next words. "Skinner, Mr. Perkins and I want you ...
— Skinner's Dress Suit • Henry Irving Dodge
... "Hello! Can't lose you," was the captain's gruff greeting. "How does it happen that you aren't off with the crowd ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... "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 Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... "Hello, Connie. I haven't seen a morning paper, but I know from your face that you lost the Rochester series," said ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey
... Brett who had captained the Rutgers Team that day, and he told me that his life had been a burden to him at times, and like Job, he felt like cursing God and dying, because often upon coming into a cafe or even a hotel dining-room some half drunken acquaintance would yell out, "Hello, Phil, old man, could you die ...
— Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball • William H. Edwards
... "Hello, Martin," Stanley greeted me. "I want you to meet Professor Berry, the real leader of this expedition. Professor, this young red-head is Martin Grey, a sort of nephew by adoption who knows more about ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various |
