- a variation of view halloa.
view halloo
Britishinterjection
noun
Example Sentences
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Britain's general election campaign was enlivened by shouts of view halloo last week as the Tory Party, in full cry, prepared to close in on Harold J. Laski, Chairman of the Labor Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
The view halloo began when M.G.M. announced plans to picturize Uncle Tom's Cabin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, with a "view halloo," the steed bearing the unfortunate man was started in real earnest; and the foresters sent staggering by after it along the road to Nottingham.
From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
But the "view halloo" was quickly dropped and the tonguing of the dog was now in short, high-pitched yelps at one place.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Seton, Ernest Thompson
Lifting.—When a huntsman carries the pack forward from an indifferent, or no scent, to a place the fox is hoped to have more recently passed, or to a view halloo.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)
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