Hailed
[heild]
Examples
- The uprising of the star of day was hailed by triumphant strains, while the birds, heard by snatches, filled up the intervals of the music. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering real service in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross hailed it with joy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A substitute for the slow animal, horse, and for the dangerous, noisy steam horse and its lumbering locomotive and train, was hailed with delight. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She hailed it as an earnest of the most serious determination, and was equal even to encounter her father. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He read the bill attentively, considered a moment, and then hailed an empty cab as it passed him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Before Ezra Jennings could answer me, he was hailed from the high road by a man, in great agitation, who had been evidently on the look-out for him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But to-night I hailed it as another proof that neither he nor his wife were connected with the mysterious appearance at the lake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They fumigated us to guard themselves against the cholera, though we hailed from no infected port. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For three generations the Pasteurs had been tanners in the Jura, and they natur ally adhered to that portion of the population which hailed the Revolution as a deliverance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I felt as if her shadow were absolutely upon us, when the galley hailed us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Once there, she composed herself, hailed a passing omnibus, and rolled away to town, looking very merry and mysterious. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If the tallow candle, hitherto unknown, were now invented, its creator would be hailed as one of the greatest benefactors of the present age. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Oh, thanks, she stammered; and at that moment her eye caught a hansom drifting down Madison Avenue, and she hailed it with a desperate gesture. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- By the time she had been hailed and stopped, both steamers were drifting away from us, and we were rising and falling in a troubled wake of water. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The poorer nobility hailed the return of sovereignty, as an event which would restore them to their power and rights, now lost. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He hailed a cab. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I hailed the darkness that shut Ireland from my sight, and my pulse beat with a feverish joy, when I reflected that I should soon see Geneva. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The part of Ohio that I hailed from was not thickly settled, but wolves had been driven out long before I left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was hailed as the saviour of his country, a second Camillus (100 B.C.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Bedwin, his costumes, and black man, were hailed at Gaunt House as very valuable acquisitions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In about a minute, Mary Anne again hailed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If we were that close to the border I did not want to be hailed by a sentry along the road. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When he had at last convinced them that he was now enlightened, they hailed him as the Buddha. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- During supper, somebody recognised Elliston as he passed through the room, and he was immediately hailed with three cheers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The latter part of this speech, was hailed by a boisterous shout from all the hopeful pupils of the merry old gentleman. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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