Exclamation

Examples

• He clasped his hands together, and involuntarily uttered a subdued exclamation of horror. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He made no answer to this exclamation, and for a while they sat silent, while something throbbed between them in the wide quiet of the air. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Her first exclamation will be, That man! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Holmes gave an exclamation of impatience. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I don't know what joyful exclamation I made or was going to make, but he put up his finger and I stopped myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Your exclamation is very natural. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I had no difficulty in restraining my voice from exclamation, my step from hasty advance. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Susan's sight of her passing figure earlier in the evening, not five minutes after the sick boy's exclamation, Mother, I do feel so bad! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There was a muttered exclamation, and then a step as he came to my side. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Holmes had sat down again after one of these excursions, when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with a loud exclamation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In the same moment I heard an exclamation of wonder and my own name from Mr. Woodcourt. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The latter gentleman at once burst into the exclamation: 'A beadle. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Harriet felt this too much to utter more than a few words of eager exclamation. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He passed, and I went on; a few steps, and I turned: a sliding sound and an exclamation of What the deuce is to do now? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He gasped out at various intervals these exclamations of rage and grief. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Instantly cries and exclamations of excitement burst from the crowd at the gate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Many were the exclamations of astonishment and questioning wonder as Xodar's acts confirmed the suspicion which he had held. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The woman's passionate exclamations collected a crowd around her, and the trader briefly explained to them the cause of the agitation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Then there was a weeping of women, then waiting, then hushed exclamations, then a strange gasping sound, then a painful stillness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Another and another, with broken exclamations, and extravagant phrases, endeavoured to express the intoxicating effect of this wonder of nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• After the first almost thundering exclamations of astonishment, which sufficiently warned Rosamond of what was coming, he was silent for some moments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She did not, however, break out into any exclamations, or hurried narrative of what had happened. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They met at a turn and kissed with laughter and exclamations inarticulate and stirring. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There were exclamations of What a mercy master was not burnt in his bed! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He jumped up on his box, and, with profane exclamations of dismay, drove off furiously. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The spectators seemed spellbound, for no shouts or exclamations were heard, as all watched anxiously the silent course of the heavily freighted pontoons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When he heard the sound of my approach, he ceased to utter exclamations of grief and horror, and sprung towards the window. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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