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Aua; this word I take to be a form of the interjection yahue, or, as Olmos gives it in his Grammar, aa. 2. nepohualoyan; "the place of counting or reckoning," from pohua, to count. The reference is not clear, and the translation uncertain. In some parts of ancient Mexico they used in their accounting knotted cords of various colors, like the Peruvian quipus. These were called nepohualtzitzin.
Then she raised the receiver to her ear. "My friend," she said to Norgate, "you must excuse me. I told them distinctly to disconnect the instrument so that it rang only in my bedroom. I am disobeyed, but no matter. Who is that?" Norgate leaned back in his place. His companion's little interjection, however, was irresistible. He glanced towards her.
With this view, he betook himself to the bachelor quarters of the black a hovel on the outskirts of the village, where we find him at this present moment. "I hab some interjection, Missa Basset," said Primus, evidently in reply to a proposition of the constable. "Suppose you come to ketch me, how I like to hab somebody help you?"
"I!" was Harry's interjection; and while she was looking round for a partner to whom to present him, he had turned to the young daughter of his new acquaintance, and had her on his arm, unconscious that George had been making his way to her. Flora was somewhat uneasy, but the mother was looking on smiling, and expressed her delight in the young midshipman; and Mrs.
After some quarter of an hour's absence, he returned. 'Well? said my aunt, taking the cotton out of the ear nearest to him. 'Well, ma'am, returned Mr. Chillip, 'we are we are progressing slowly, ma'am. 'Ba a ah! said my aunt, with a perfect shake on the contemptuous interjection. And corked herself as before. Really really as Mr.
My aunt Dorothy followed her example, saying: 'In justice to Harry the proposal should be made. At least it will settle this dispute. Janet stared at her, and the squire threw his head back with an amazed interjection. 'What! You're for it now? Why, at breakfast you were all t' other way! You didn't want this meeting because you pooh-poohed the match. 'I do think you should go, she answered.
"How near the end is to the beginning, and how short the space between, and how little the ups and downs of it will matter if we take the right road and get home." "Pshaw!" said the doctor. But Fleda knew him too well to take his interjection otherwise than most kindly.
We must not pare the lion's claws, and give bad men soft speeches: pr'ythee, supply an occasional interjection, and believe that in this place Sir Thomas swore most awfully; then, in a complete phrensy, he vowed that he "would turn Maria out of house and home this minute." This was another "bone," clearly. But it was now becoming politic to calm him.
'Miss Vincent, manner the imperative mood; self, first person singular; mind, imperfect tense; eyes, positive; voice, in the superlative degree; nose, the interrogative point. 'Miss Bruce, an interjection, or an interrogative. "True," said Miss Damer, "particularly where books are concerned." "Well, I do love books!" said Miss Bruce; "I do think I could read every one in Mr.
Indeed several sentences of meaning condensed themselves into that simple interjection. At this moment, some men, whom curiosity had drawn to Henry's forge, came back to say the forge had been blown up, and "the bellows torn limb from jacket, and the room strewed with ashes." The doctor laid a podgy hand on the prisoner's wrist: the touch was light, though the fingers were thick and heavy.
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