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Meanings of exclamatory in English

Sudden and strong.

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Usage of exclamatory in English
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That is to say, she chooses bewilderment to indulge in the exclamatory.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
2
For a moment his face and form were alive with exclamatory suggestion.
In the Days of Poor Richard
3
The carriage had stopped, and she heard a man use exclamatory words.
The Woodlanders
4
But her eyes do stop you in your tracks: exclamatory and ageless.
The Guardian
5
Doug's periodic exclamatory outbursts at Scott's nonchalance on critical issues were legendary.
Terminal Compromise
6
The three young modelers looked up in exclamatory consternation as the doors opened.
Prudence of the Parsonage
7
There were short, exclamatory phrases, and hoof-strokes upon the prairie turf.
The Scalp Hunters
8
Fanny was radiant again, and exclamatory over her books and flowers.
Fanny Herself
9
Rosamund's meditation was exclamatory: What can be the age of this pretentious girl?
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2
10
Perhaps you don't realize what feverish, exclamatory, foolish things girls are.
Brewster's Millions
11
This brings us to consider certain ejaculatory or exclamatory expressions such as: God!
Explanation of Catholic Morals / A Concise, Reasoned, and Popula...
12
She wasn't going to apologize for Honora to a pair of exclamatory dimples!
The Precipice: A Novel
13
It was an exclamatory look which one might interpret as saying, What's this!
Mary Wollaston
14
Even then he had to have every little sigh and exclamatory breath explained.
Wired
15
Gantry was astonished and he admitted it in exclamatory phrase.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
16
In a moment the four were a laughing, exclamatory group.
Murder at Bridge
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