What the ideal-maker tries to do is to set holy standards that shall not pass away: to do abiding work, in thought, deed, word; work philosophically planned, and perseveringly carried out; work which he shall do regardless of the outer circumstances of his lifepoverty or wealth, of threats, misunderstanding, or hoots of scorn.

Under the circumstances, with Erastus and Toby to help guard the camp outfit, Andy's crowd did not dare lift a hostile hand; but they took especial pains to hoot at the little company as it wheeled past, making more or less sarcastic remarks, and yet being careful not to go too far.

"I knew the old boy, and he wasn't the sort to care a hoot in Sheol for treasure, buried or unburied.

An owl was hooting from a distant tree, and the hum of innumerable insects sounded on every side.

A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard.

Again, at nightfall, a cub's hunting cry, ooooo, ow-ow! ooooo, ow-ow! a deep, almost musical hoot with two short barks at the end, would come singing down from the uplands; and the wolves, leaving instantly the game they were following, would hasten up to find the two cubs herding a caribou in a cleft of the rocks,a young caribou that had lost his mother at the hands of the hunters, and that did not know how to take care of himself.

When it was quite dark he commenced hooting like an owl, having previously transformed himself into one.

A couple of owls were hooting to one another across the garden, and far away a dog barked at intervals.

He never seemed to care a hoot about the working end of the business, so long as it produced dividends.

Rollo, with his hoots on, took hold behind to push, and Jonas drew.

He was taught that hooting owls were very jealous of their night hours and whenever they hooted near a field of workers they were saying: "Task done or no donenight's my timego home!"

He said he had sat by us as our friend, till the King's Ministers joined in the hoot against him.

Farther it may be said, that Mr. Gifford hazarded his first poetical attempts under all the disadvantages of a neglected education: but the same circumstance, together with a few unpruned redundancies of fancy and quaintnesses of expression, was made the plea on which Mr. Keats was hooted out of the world, and his fine talents and wounded sensibilities consigned to an early grave.

The report hooted through the Polar night.

The debates in the Parliament became warmer than they had ever been since the days of the Fronde: the citizens, sharing in the excitement, thronged the palace of the Parliament, expressing their approval or disapproval of the different speakers by disorderly and unprecedented clamor; the great majority hooting down the minister and his supporters, and cheering those who spoke against him.

We had ridden but a little way forth of the town when we heard a great din of shouting and hooting behind us, which made us women afraid; and presently a noisy rabblement of people came running up.

"The world's all title-page; there's no contents; The world's all face; the man who shows his heart, Is hooted for his nudities, and scorned.

I think that a man who refuses to join from conviction, at the risk of being hooted as a coward, is probably doing a braver thing still.