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Updated: May 12, 2025
Take the simplest illustration, the formal pronunciation of "A-h" is "Ah," of "O-h" "Oh;" but you cannot stereotype the expression of emotion like this. These exclamations are words of one syllable, but the speaker who is sounding the gamut of human feeling will not be restricted in his pronunciation by the dictionary rule.
He was a frequent inmate of my house after I married, and was engaged to dine with me, alas! only eight days before he died. Motley was a singularly pleasant fellow. My friendship with him began over a volume of Sir W. Hamilton's Lectures. He asked what I was reading I handed him the book. 'A-h, said he, 'there's no mental gymnastic like metaphysics. Many a battle we afterwards had over them.
I was much surprised at hearing this, and asked: "But it is a civil funeral, is it not?" The other gentleman, who evidently wished to tell me all about it, then said: "Yes and no. The clergy have refused to allow us the use of the church." On hearing this I uttered a prolonged "A-h!" of astonishment. I could not understand it at all, but my obliging neighbor continued: "It is rather a long story.
"A-h!" ejaculated my father, "now you are coming to something definite. How long has this been going on?" "Oh, not very long! Only within these last few days," answered Lestrange. "But within that time more than half of them have gone. And they are mostly Pondos or Griquas." "By Jove, Pater, there may be something in it, after all!" I exclaimed.
I inserted my key into the lock, and went into the apartment with a candle in my hand. I kicked open my bedroom door, which was partly open, and cast a frightened glance toward the fireplace. There was nothing there. A-h! What a relief and what a delight! What a deliverance!
I inserted my key into the lock, and went into the apartment with a candle in my hand. I kicked open my bedroom door, which was partly open, and cast a frightened glance toward the fireplace. There was nothing there. A-h! What a relief and what a delight! What a deliverance!
"Really," was her answer, "you see we have just received our fall fashions, and it is not the fall style this year to give and take hands after an absence." "A-h! how popular that will be with poor masculines! Is that to be worn by all of you?" "I don't know," said Kate; "it is not fall with some of us yet."
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