y-ah

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From the adjoining dressing-room issued a prolonged "Y-ah!" not the howl of a spoiled child, nor the protest of a captive gorilla, but the whole-souled utterance of a mighty son of Anak, whose amiability is invulnerable to weapons of human aggravation.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864