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Examples
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Francisco, had not appeared on the scene, shouting, "Ahoy" to everybody.
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
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Nor shouts a broad "Ahoy" to the dories on the Banks.
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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"Give way," I cried to the men, who sat silent in their fear of it, and when they rowed again they cried as before, "Ahoy": so strong and vivid was the picture which the sea had then put out.
The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906
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Before, however, they had entered the house a cry of "Ahoy" from the moor led them to pause.
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Before, however, they had entered the house a cry of "Ahoy" from the moor led them to pause.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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There was a great shout of "Ahoy," and I saw from beyond the ring round me the rise and fall of a broad axe, and then Thorgils was at my back, and close behind him was Evan.
A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884
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But he mastered this unpleasant feeling, and determining to be strong, he raised his voice and uttered a loud "Ahoy," listening directly after to the wonderful echoes, which seemed to fly in all directions, repeating and blurring each other as it were, into a strange confusion till the last one died out.
Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870
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Actually, he liked to use two ahoys in a row: Ahoy, ahoy!
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Alexander Graham Bell liked to answer telephone calls with a nautical Ahoy!
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Actually, he liked to use two ahoys in a row: Ahoy, ahoy!
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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