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Burges Johnson is dissatisfied with American profanity and hopes for an enrichment of all its forms: the oath denunciatory, the oath asseverative, the oath interjectional, the malediction.

From Time Magazine Archive

As interjectional phrases alone could indicate something of their emotions to each other, so fragmentary sentences alone will convey a faint semblance of the truth to the intelligence of the reader.

From The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

From a slight interjectional sound, I concluded that Bagsby was praying.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

There were three minutes, on the 30th of July last, during which that piece of interjectional eloquence seemed to your humble servant to embody the whole dictionary!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various

Still this sense has pleased the editors, and they have made "of goodnesse" a precatory and interjectional expression.

From Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George