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Ejaculations of alarm were heard all round, and several of the girls began to whimper.

From Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

He was perpetually at his Devotions; and distinguishably remarkable, for never permitting any Thing but pious Ejaculations to proceed out of his Mouth.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

Ejaculations of "Joan!" and "Poor girl!" showed that he was not entirely bereft of proper feeling.

From Salthaven by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)

Ejaculations therefore concerning the strangeness of the record, and cavils at the phraseology in which it is propounded, are simply irrelevant.

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William

Ejaculations of pity broke from the crowd, touched by the filial piety, the extraordinary and hopeless anguish, of so young and beautiful a being.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington