Cooee

If you have a Borders bookshop within cooee of you (as I do, yay) you can donate good quality second-hand books to them. ❋ Karenmiller (2009)

If you were ever within cooee of Zucker, I bet you did ❋ Unknown (2006)

If you’re within cooee of the S. E, I’d be delighted to shout you a brew, Mayhem! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The warning had scarcely been given by the leader, whose two companions reloaded their fire-arms, when they heard a shrill cry of a peculiar kind, which is in the Colony called a cooee, and which is chiefly used by parties in the bush to denote their positions or make known their desire of help, guidance, etc. The bushrangers halted and listened attentively; the cry was two or three times repeated, apparently by the same voice. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Presently there sounded upon the morning air the clear "cooee" of the range, particularly well known to every cowboy who had worked at Circle ❋ James Carson (N/A)

And presently after I heard from afar his high, melancholy "cooee," and the crack of his thong in the afternoon air as he hastened out to his charges. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)

Anxious to escape thoughts so little comprehended, King hurried on, and essayed a feeble 'cooee' when a few yards from the sleeper. ❋ Andrew Lang (1900)

Australian "cooee," following it up with a shrill piercing note from a little silver whistle; but the only response was the cry of an _ara_, one of the great scarlet and blue long-tailed macaws, whose harsh shriek came softened from the distance. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"cooee" of the returning warriors; and then caught the bark of the fox, that told them that Paul and his posse had returned. ❋ George A. Warren (N/A)

Simply put, I won't let a simple doctor within cooee of me with a needle, but I can let Pathologists and anesthetists do it - if stretched, a registered nurse. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2007)

But before he could put a name to the odour, there was a great shouting and cooee-ing, and it was him they were calling ... and calling. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Richard, in his new travelling rig, spruce from top to toe, was urbanity itself: as indeed how should he fail to be when, within cooee, rode the good ship that was to carry him off? ❋ Unknown (2003)

"Come back to that and cooee, and we'll answer you." ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)

And if you go to a picnic, just when the fun commences you have to nick off home and milk, and when you tog yourself on Sunday evening you have to undress again and lay into the milking, and then you have to change everything on you and have a bath, or your best girl would scent the cow-yard on you, and not have you within cooee of her. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)

She'd see a joke a mile off; sighted 'em as soon as they got within cooee. ❋ Jeannie Gunn (1915)

Up through the ferns came the thin note of Miss Bibby's cooee. ❋ Ethel Sybil Turner (1915)

Then looked a little troubled, for cooee was to be interpreted that all was well. ❋ Ethel Sybil Turner (1915)

Down, down they went, Miss Bibby, Muffie and Max leading and, far behind, Pauline and Lynn, lingering as was their wont (they had a passion for pretending they were wandering quite alone in the gully) -- but occasionally sending downwards a cooee to assure Miss Bibby of their safety. ❋ Ethel Sybil Turner (1915)

"You'll have to live up to your reputation now," the Dandy said, and, brave in the knowledge that he was within cooee, I ordered the old men about most unmercifully, leaving little doubt in their minds that "missus was big mob cheeky fellow." ❋ Jeannie Gunn (1915)