"Holla" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... uns which prevent the old ones from rising in the world—that's very true, Tom. Holla, who have we got here? My service to you, at ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... new-made empress. To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen, This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph, This siren, that will charm Rome's Saturnine, And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's.— Holla! what storm is this? ...
— The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... They caused their arrival to be announced to Master Martin, and soon he appeared in the entrance-passage, dressed in holiday garb and with no small amount of colour in his nose and on his cheeks. On catching sight of Frederick he cried, "Holla! Frederick, my good lad, have you come home again? That's fine! And so you have taken up the best of all trades—cooperage. Herr Holzschuer cuts confounded wry faces when your name is mentioned, and says a great artist is ruined in you, and that you could ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... church," said Wilhelm. "Because there are no bells in the tower, they have here such a wandering bell-ringer as this. Holla! there ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen
... second knock and a third; yet there came no sign. Then he knocked his loudest but still no answer, so he said, "Doubtless 'tis empty." Thereupon he mustered up resolution and boldly walked through the main gate into the great hall and there cried out aloud, "Holla, ye people of the palace! I am a stranger and a wayfarer; have you aught here of victual?" He repeated his cry a second time and a third but still there came no reply; so strengthening his heart and making up his mind he ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... "Holla, there!" cries the King, "bring hither quickly my tablet Romla and the steel pen, and speedily will the truth ...
— Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers • Various |
