The jocose use of the phrase is here illustrated.

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1854.  The note in which he says we gave him Hale Columby.—Mrs. Bailey in Oregon Weekly Times, Sept. 9.

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1861.  

        People ’s impulsiver down here than wut our folks to home be,
An’ kin’ o’ go it ’ith a resh in raisin’ Hail Columby.
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ 2nd Series, No. 1.    

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1869.  Notwithstanding the holy sphere in which she moves, she occasionally combs the head of the Prophet with a three-legged stool, raises Hail Columbia in the very sanctuary of the holies, and smashes a chair over the piano to prove her devout affection for the sacred calling she has accepted.—A. K. McClure, ‘Rocky Mountains,’ p. 170.

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