"Holler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was the washerwoman's kid. When we flushed her she probably vamped out and left it in the grass. Anyhow, it let up an awful holler." ...
— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach
... feet to a certain death. When the worst place was reached she stopped and hesitated, looking back as well as she could. I was ahead with the rope, and I called encouragingly to her and talked to her a little. Rogers wanted to get all ready and he said, "holler" at her as loud as he could and frighten her across, but I thought the best way to talk to her gently and ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly
... attempting to see the reflection of the tinsel and chiffon against her very ample background of gingham and avoirdupois. "You'd sure be a swell nigger wid dat on, Honey," she chuckled to herself. "Wouldn't dem deacons holler ...
— Polly of the Circus • Margaret Mayo
... lot in a holler tooth, an' never know I'd had aught,' said Chippy. 'This scoutin' life ...
— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore
... half-ways between the fur corner o' the ram-paddick an' the station gate; an' looses out about an hour after sundown. It was sort o' cloudy moonlight that night; an' I takes the carrion straight on, an' shoves 'em in the horse-paddick, an' shuts the gate. Then I fetches 'em into a sort of a holler, where the best grass was, an' I takes the saddle an' bridle off o' the horse, an' lays down, an' watches the carrion wirin' in. Well, you know, ole Martin, the head boundary man, he's about as nice a varmin ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
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