Citations:hello

English citations of hello

Interjection: greeting

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• 1870 — Sidney Lanier, Nine from Eight

  Then I says “Hello, here, Garry!

• 1876 — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch XXVII

  "Hello, Huck!"
  "Hello, yourself."

• 1889 — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch XV

  How the thought of her carries me back over wide seas of memory to a vague dim time, a happy time, so many, many centuries hence, when I used to wake in the soft summer mornings, out of sweet dreams of her, and say "Hello, Central!" just to hear her dear voice come melting back to me with a "Hello, Hank!" that was music of the spheres to my enchanted ear.

• 1894 — H. G. Wells, s:The Jilting of Jane

  ...William came up beside her and said, "Hello!" "Hello yourself!" she said; and etiquette being satisfied, they proceeded to talk together.

• 1900 — Stephen Crane, A Little Pilgrim

  A number of acquaintances greeted him contemptuously. "Hello, Jimmie! What you doin' here? Thought you was a Presperterian?"

• 1906 — Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, ch 24

  Master Freddie stood for a moment or two, gazing about him; then out of the next room a dog emerged, a monstrous bulldog, the most hideous object that Jurgis had ever laid eyes upon. He yawned, opening a mouth like a dragon's; and he came toward the young man, wagging his tail. "Hello, Dewey!" cried his master. "Been havin' a snooze, ole boy?..."

• 1939 — Stratemeyer Syndicate, Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope, ch 4

  Hello, boys. Mr. Damon will be as good as new in a week or so.

Interjection: call for a response

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• 1920 — Robert Frost, Snow

  I think I hear a clock—and windows rattling.
  No step though. If she’s there she’s sitting down.”
  
  “Shout, she may hear you.”
  
  “Shouting is no good.”
  
  “Keep speaking then.”
  
  “Hello. Hello. Hello.
  You don’t suppose—? She wouldn’t go out doors?”

Interjection: expression of puzzlement or discovery

					1890	1906
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• 1890 — William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part IV, ch 7

  March threw himself back in his chair and looked at him with a kind of stupefaction, in which his eye wandered to the doorway, where he saw Fulkerson standing, it seemed to him a long time, before he heard him saying: "Hello, hello! What's the row? Conrad pitching into you on old Lindau's account, too?"

• 1906 — Frances Hodgson Burnett, Racketty-Packetty House

  "Hello," he said all at once. "I've just thought of something to attract her attention. Where's the ball of string?"