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Any properly trained heroine of melodrama would have ejaculated "Saved!" but I haven't a tragedy nose, and I gave only a stifled squeak, more like the swan-song of a dying frog than anything more romantic.

From The Motor Maid by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

"You have?" ejaculated, not the man addressed by the mendicant monk, but the other.

From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Hemyng, Bracebridge

"O, my; O, my; what fun we'll have," ejaculated Della, who knew that Dorothy could have no pleasure that she would not share equally with the rest of the Club.

From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)