whoa

'Whoa, whoa, whoa!' he said to himself as he fell, and he tried to stop his fall but could not, and only stopped when his feet plunged into a thick layer of snow that had drifted to the bottom of the hollow.

His boney legs moved so fast they could scarcely be seen, and the Wizard clung fast to the seat and yelled "Whoa!" at the top of his voice.

But I know enough to obey my masters, and to gid-dup, or whoa, when I'm told to.

Whoa, there, Lottie; not so fast, Jet, whoa!" His protesting team in control again, he trudged heavily behind.

Daylight, yelling "Whoa!" struggled with the gee-pole and managed to overturn the sled into the soft snow.

“And when the proud forest is falling, To my oxen cheerfully calling, From morn until night I am bawling, Whoa, back there, and haw and gee; Till our labor is mutually ended, By my strength and cattle befriended, And against the mosquitoes defended By the bark of the walnut-trees.

As if Nature could support but one order of understandings, could not sustain birds as well as quadrupeds, flying as well as creeping things, and hush and whoa, which Bright can understand, were the best English.

a sudden loud WHOA! would have damped their ardor at once, reduced them from venison to beef, and stiffened their sides and sinews like the locomotive.

Suddenly he yelled "Whoa!" at the dogs, and stopped.

If I had a nickel for every pointing dog I've trained that sat when I first commanded it to whoa, I'd have a lot of nickels.