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"Here Pedro, Quashy, fetch me the flask from my saddle By the time a cup of the flask's contents was administered to Manuela, Mariquita and Susan were kneeling beside her, and the rest were standing round A splendid leap!--aw--couldn't have been much better done if--aw--it had been an English hunter," remarked the sportsman in an undertone to his friend.

—The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America

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interjection Used to express sympathy, tenderness, disapproval, or disbelief.

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This country don't need,--aw, the people of this country are good enough for the country and the country is good enough for them. — Sally of Missouri
"Here Pedro, Quashy, fetch me the flask from my saddle By the time a cup of the flask's contents was administered to Manuela, Mariquita and Susan were kneeling beside her, and the rest were standing round A splendid leap!--aw--couldn't have been much better done if--aw--it had been an English hunter," remarked the sportsman in an undertone to his friend. — The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
She 'low ter spen' much as six bits fer de trash An' firs' t'ing she axed for was face powder--aw, my glo-_ree_! — The Corner House Girls at School
Aw've noa dogs wi' me to worry Thee poor thing,--aw like to watch thi. — Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect
But here's his father comin He's lukkin awful sad Noa wonder,--aw'st be sad enuff If aw had sich a lad Aw nivver thowt 'at aw could feel Sich sorrow, or should grieve, But little Dick is varry sick They dunnot think he'll live. — Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect

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Cf. augh, ah, oh.

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