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  • While the Prime Minister shouts view-halloo at the scurrying bankers, hoping to lead the Westminster pack in pursuit, The Spectator will embark on its own fiercely independent hunt for the truth.

    John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009

  • While the Prime Minister shouts view-halloo at the scurrying bankers, hoping to lead the Westminster pack in pursuit, The Spectator will embark on its own fiercely independent hunt for the truth.

    John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009

  • But in the middle of it all he heard the view-halloo again: he sprang to his horse as though frenzied — a wild-boar was charging down on them, and he charged to meet it, and drawing his bow with the surest aim possible, struck the beast in the forehead, and laid him low.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • In front he heard a ‘view-halloo’, a scream, they had caught the girl.

    Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

  • He was commonly followed by a couple of greyhounds and a pointer, and announced his arrival at a friend's house by cracking his whip or giving the view-halloo.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • Our one chance made the sport of an accidental view-halloo, when all the wide desert was open.

    Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

  • I felt strongly tempted to give the view-halloo, and push "Old Sandy" to the wall at once, but I knew that the fair de

    The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907

  • But it could mean nothing else than a view-halloo.

    Rimrock Trail 1906

  • He raised a shout that was joined in by the rest, that reached the flying Plimsoll as the view-halloo reaches the fox making for its earth.

    Rimrock Trail 1906

  • Running his gaze along the table, he sighted the Collector and broke into a view-halloo.

    Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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