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We have sung to you the jovial chorus of Evoe, evoe, and you will neither worship Comus nor Bacchus!
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Well, he was wandering, you bet, whatever was his matter, in his mind too, give him his due, for I am sorry to have to tell you, hullo and evoe, they were coming down from off him. —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Pan his left wing; his colonels and captains were the satyrs, and the word for the day _evoe.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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He noticed nothing until the buzz round the table suddenly ceased, and the notes of his own voice, with its soft low-toned triumph, "Evoe, evoe!" fell in startling isolation.
Romola George Eliot 1849
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Their cheeks glowed, their eyes glared; they resembled Bacchantes circling the god of riotous joviality with their shouts of "Evoe! evoe!"
Henry VIII and His Court Henry Niles Pierce 1843
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_Evoe, evoe, _ and you will neither worship Comus nor Bacchus!
Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801
crsini commented on the word evoe
evoe, evhoe, evohe, or euoi (interj) expressing Bacchic frenzy.
-Chambers 13th dict.
December 28, 2015