all hail

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All-hail to that undying spirit of fidelity which burns and shall burn unceasingly, in the breasts of His loved ones!

From Bahá’í Administration by Shoghi Effendi

All-hail, awl-hāl′, interj. all health! a phrase of salutation.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

All-hail then, the gale then, Wafts me from thee, dear shore!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

He then parodied the All-hail of the witches to Macbeth, addressing himself to me.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by Boswell, James

That hag Disappointment was greeting her with a grisly "All-hail," and her soul rejected the intimacy.

From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte