1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, , chapter XII,And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.
N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, , 1991 Dover Publicatiosn edition, ISBN 0486268772, page 22,Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all;Now every man gives me good-morrow;....
N.d., Janice Holt Giles, "The Minor Miracle", in, 1975, Wellspring, 2002 University Press of Kentucky edition, ISBN 0813190258, page 60,"You may be hail-fellow-well-met all you please, but you are the servant of God in our midst, and I, for one, intend to remember it."
2003, James Patterson and Peter De Jonge, Beach House, Warner Books, ISBN 0446612545, chapter 17,My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.
