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Two former premiers were to heckle him—Conservative Stanley Baldwin leading the attack, Liberal David Lloyd George reverberating behind, and ambitious Sir Oswald Hooting in consonance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paralysed with fear, the miners remained where they were, until returning daylight broke the evil spell and permitted them to proceed to their homes and explain to their neighbours the secret of the Hooting Carn.

From Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway by Barham, George Basil

The owls came out and flew about, Hooting above the rest, "No useful egg was ever hatched From transcendental nest."

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

Hooting with her horn she crept past three lorries and drew abreast of the fourth; then, misjudging, she let the tip of her low mudguard touch the front wheel of the foremost lorry.

From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid

"Hooting and yelling" Are not your vocal habits.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 by Various