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Examples

  • Nor do I remember her singing any other song, apart from Coo-ee!

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • She looked at him, frightened, and started running down the hill, calling Coo-ee! again to Clifford.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • Coo-ee,” answered from a distance in a tone almost human.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • As he neared the site of the depot he raised his voice in the long-drawn-out bushman's cry: Coo-ee, Coo-ee, and he shouted out the names of the men they had left there, Brahe, McDonough, Patton.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • 'And we are going to say "Coo-ee, we're over here"?'

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • It sounds like "Coo-ee!" the first syllable being made deep in the chest, and the other a shrill head note.

    Healthful Sports for Boys Alfred Rochefort

  • He speaks of the boy as having left his father as if to hide, of his father as seeking him "high and low", of his being safely "hidden" "in some pleasant place", of the father as being unable to hear his "Coo-ee".

    Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • The one hiding must respond "Coo-ee" each time the one searching calls.

    Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • At this moment a "Coo-ee!" sounded through the wood -- an impatient and half indignant "Coo-ee!"

    Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

  • This seemed to be fair game, so with a wild "Coo-ee" the Light Horse charged down upon the totally unsuspecting party.

    With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

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