tschts

Updated: May 5, 2025

If oratory is to be judged of by its effects, Cæsar's sermon was a great oration. It began amid the silence of his own followers, and the tschts and pshaws of a little group of his enemies, who lounged on the outside of the crowd to cast ridicule on the "swaddler" and the "publican preacher."

Sir Hall Caine - The Manxman: A Novel - 1895