The hailer was Drysdale, who was leaning out in lounging coat and velvet cap, and enjoying a cigar as usual, in the midst of the flowers of his hanging garden.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
I looked into his eyes, and my heart was so full that no word could I say but his Christian name "Hans," whereas hitherto I had ever called him Master hailer.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
You know hailer is one of those chaps who believes so much in what he's doing that everybody else has to believe in it, too.
"The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers"
Francis Rolt-Wheeler