Hailing
[heilɪŋ]
Examples
- Leaving himself in the dark, it could rise into the light, seeing it shine on others and hailing it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In one of his trips he passed into the country roads and came to a tollgate through which a frightened keeper hastily passed him without toll, hailing him as the devil. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By a latent vein from Alcinous' line, her father hailing from Phaeacia's isle? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When he came back to the towing-path, he found the ferry-boat on the opposite side, and a gentleman hailing it and waiting to be taken over. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Hailing his softened tone and manner, his daughter fell upon her knees before him, with her appealing hands upon his breast. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She uttered a smiling acceptance, hailing in the renewal of the tie an escape from Trenor's importunities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- After hailing the morn with this second salutation, he threw a boot at the woman as a third. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There, I was roused by Mr. Pumblechook's hailing me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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