He was at all times hail-fellow-well-met with the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

To be 'hail-fellow-well-met' with him, were to lower ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference

My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hi-Ya!] Reference

Suslev was filled with outward bonhomie, continuing his cover as a hail-fellow-well-met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Why, before we'd be in a town two days he'd be hail-fellow-well-met with half the people in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors, Volume 1] Reference

Nothing could be less like Charles Francis's propriety than Samuel's hail-fellow-well-met disarray.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's First Dynasty] Reference

How many hands he shook, how many people he was “hail-fellow-well-met” with, it is impossible to guess!.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference

Dean's father, "Big Howard" (who, like "Little Howard," was short), was a backslapping hail-fellow-well-met.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE WASP'S NEST] Reference

The umbrella, though shabbier and more rakish-looking than ever, wore a cheery, hail-fellow-well-met appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference

Nancy often watched her flitting back and forth, from group to group, being "hail-fellow-well-met" with them all.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

He was a chameleon even more than the rest of them, with a cheery, hail-fellow-well-met geniality few saw beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Lover]

Some tended to be so over-reclusive that they almost missed recognition; others were hail-fellow-well-met in any company.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference

Smilin 'Al was the hail-fellow-well-met guy, the man who would later smuggle a 6-iron onto Apollo 14 in 1971 and become the first man to play golf in space.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Al Just Left Us All Behind'] Reference

He could be hail-fellow-well-met with the roughest of crowds thronging the outside of his rude counter, and at the same time keep an eye upon the cash drawer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

He was also hail-fellow-well-met with Pierre, and Pierre, like most of the young men of France, prided himself upon his entire freedom from the "superstitious.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

He was on hail-fellow-well-met terms with lions and tigers, as April had curiously divined, but having enjoyed fewer encounters with women, was slightly shy of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

Still, I think that it's fair to associate Kennedy with traditional Republicanism -- maybe because that's how he grew up (with a father who was a hail-fellow-well-met lobbyist).    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

"Well!" said Mr. Trabb, in a hail-fellow-well-met kind of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

David Balfour ready at last to be hail-fellow-well-met with the supple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference

It could not be that Gordon, could it, with his hail-fellow-well-met manner?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference

Such a fat and hail-fellow-well-met individual could not possibly harbour guile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective] Reference

"Might a man ax wherefore, beyond the nat'ral hail-fellow-well-met of the season?".    From Wordnik.com.  [I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales] Reference

True, he affected a democratic manner, was hail-fellow-well-met with all around him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Harbormaster]

The Duke supported his nephew admirably, and was hail-fellow-well-met with everybody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume I.] Reference

They were hail-fellow-well-met with every one, and never thought of deprivation or danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

The childish and hail-fellow-well-met disposition which cares only for the present is inimical to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

I hear he is hail-fellow-well-met with the King and with Buckingham and Killigrew and their wild set.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia] Reference

Conrad would walk past the various offices, loudly saluting their occupants with a hail-fellow-well-met flair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference

Lawrence-Smith he had met there, and with whom he had been hail-fellow-well-met, was his social equal or superior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life] Reference

He was hail-fellow-well-met with the painters, sculptors, poets, and social reformers who have made of Soho a new Mecca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Chinatown] Reference

Irene, pleasant and hail-fellow-well-met with all comers, had at once noticed this attitude of the others towards Lorna.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jolliest School of All] Reference

And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus -- that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kidnapped] Reference

This young man who would not drink champagne, or be hail-fellow-well-met, and who was in such deadly earnest, was a nuisance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Sinners] Reference

Men felt this, and he was popular among those who knew him in his service, though not in any hail-fellow-well-met kind of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life] Reference

It was hail-fellow-well-met, with a reservation; it asked no questions for conscience's sake; it would not have been safe to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Footprints of the Padres] Reference

Everyone was hail-fellow-well-met with everyone else, and the common struggle merged all differences of birth, wealth, and education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Town Life in Australia] Reference

The speaker was an old baronet, with small eyes, a dusky, ruddy face, and peculiar hail-fellow-well-met expression, at once morose and sly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Pharisees] Reference