pagh

Updated: May 18, 2025

"Pagh!" he said, "it has been a jolly fair, but it hasn't sweetened the air. However, I shall soon have left it behind me," and he stepped out briskly towards the straggling end of the street, which merged into a wild moorland country. "There's a difference between him and his father," said Deio to his companion, as they led Captain back to his stall.

Allen Raine - By Berwen Banks

But come a storm out of Stavanger, come a whistling under the eaves and a thumping of wind on the window pane and Tobias was off again. "He is not a good God!" Tobias would cry in his new "repentance." "His religion is too weak. The devil is stronger than Him. I want a stronger religion. Pagh, I want somebody big enough to kill this fanden inside me."

Ben Hecht - A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago