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Examples
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"This is what Joe would call 'Hooly Balooley,' "says Wyman of the garden's orchestrated chaos.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Whan that drad maladye of rickrollyng, delivered to us by Our Lord and Savior as portente of His Hooly Judgment, strykes with terrible corage, leaping from flyckereng Devilbox to Devilbox across the miasma in the cweer disgyse of Richard of Astley, Galen adviseth couching a deed polcat upon the cheste of the rickrolld ful swithe to balance the overly sangwyn humors caused by daemonic, forbidden styles of dance.
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Hooly Dooly…Does he live far away, or did he sleep drive over there from Chermside?
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He has taught them the foolish tumult of the Hooly, the fanatical ferocities of the Yajna, the unwhisperable obscenities of the Saktis, the fierce and ruinous extravagances of the Doorga Pooja, the mutilating monstrosities of the Churruck, the enslaving sorceries of the Atharvana Veda, the raving mad revivals of Juggernath, the pious debaucheries of Nanjanagud, the strange and sorrowful delusions of
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Churruck post and the orgies of Hooly are in no danger from beef or
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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"Hoots!" interrupted Cupples, "do ye think I was gaun to lat the laddie gang reid-wud to the deevil, ohn stud in afore 'm and cried _Hooly_!"
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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"Hooly and fairly, sir!" exclaimed Thomas, forgetting his manners in his eagerness.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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"Hooly and fairly," said I; "Nanse, sit still like a woman, and hear me out;" so, giving her a pat on the shouther, she sat her ways down, and I resumed my discourse.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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"Hooly and fairly," quoth Thomas, staring a wee astonished like, and not
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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"Hooly and fairly," said I; "Nanse, sit still like a woman, and hear me out;" so, giving her a pat on the shouther, she sat her ways down, and I resumed my discourse.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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