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"Exclamation" Quotes from Famous Books

... of religious songs in any but a spiritual frame of mind would be sacrilege just as the taking of the Lord's name in ordinary conversation or in exclamation ...

— The Colored Girl Beautiful • E. Azalia Hackley

... at his usual stand near the Sherman House when a boy who was passing uttered a slight exclamation of surprise. Looking ...

— Luke Walton • Horatio Alger

... same electric light which had illuminated Wilhammer's face, and she was reading a letter. As his walk carried him past her, he was startled to see tears rolling down those radiant cheeks. A slight exclamation came involuntarily from him; the girl, even more startled to be caught thus, relaxed her grip of the letter—a puff of wind hastened to whirl it aloft. Rozenoffski grasped at it desperately, but it eluded him, and then descending sailed sternwards. He gave chase, stumbling ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... knelt over the prostrate bully, wiped the blood from his eyes, and finally succeeded in getting him to his feet. Then Little Compton assisted him into the store, placed him in a chair, and proceeded to bandage his wounded eye. Walthall, looking on with an air of supreme indifference, uttered an exclamation of astonishment, and sauntered ...

— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris

... morning, or this, I communicated to Dr Johnson, from Mr M'Aulay's information, the news that Dr Beattie had got a pension of two hundred pounds a year. He sat up in his bed, clapped his hands, and cried, 'O brave we!' a peculiar exclamation of his when he rejoices. [Footnote: Having mentioned, more than once, that my Journal was perused by Dr Johnson, I think it proper to inform my readers that this is the last ...

— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell

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