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And to have the heart to help--ah, that is the best of all In my mind, for we Irish imagine always, I have made you a stately lady, perhaps not very strong, who is much alone and has had a great sorrow, who helps the world because it is good to help.

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  1. interjection Used to express various emotions, such as satisfaction, surprise, delight, dislike, or pain.

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  • At home--ah, at home!--crushed ice and cooling fans, a pleasant and shady ride to a pleasant, shady church, a little dozing through a comfortable sermon, then friends and crops and politics in the twilight dells of an old churchyard, then home, and dinner, and wide porches--Ah, that was the way, that was the way. —  The Long Roll
  • I might have borne with sad equanimity to see her married to the Colonel, for he is far above me, but to Orrin--ah, that is a bitter outlook, and I must have been a fool to have promised aught that will help to bring it about. —  The Old Stone House and Other Stories
  • There's a log somewhere--ah, here it is; we'll be able to see better if we mount it I wish we had more light," growled the so-called captain; "it won't be easy to make off on horseback in such--is this the log? —  Twice Bought
  • But for Mademoiselle Marie--ah, there again the droll name, Molli!--does not Mademoiselle think this a strange, very strange, country The great expedition was ready to set out at last. —  The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)
  • Many he intuitively sensed--ah, there was one that was familiar indeed; the distant coughing of Sheeta, the leopard; but there was a strange note in the final wail which made him doubt. —  Return of Tarzan
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  1. A natural cry, expressive of sudden emotion; Middle English a (cf. Old High German *ā = Icelandic æ, ai) = Old French a, French ah = Latin ah = Greek ά; in Teutonic usually with final guttural, Anglo-Saxon eá (for *eah) = Dutch ach = Old High German ah, Middle High German G. ach = Swedish ack = Danish ak. Often repeated, with aspiration, ah ha, aha. See aha and ha, and cf. O, oh.
 

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