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  • Not because he had been praised -- paugh! that didn't mean so much -- but because Mr. Wall seemed to speak to him as man scout to boy scout.

    Don Strong, Patrol Leader William Heyliger

  • Paraffin, ladies and gentlemen, pure undiluted paraffin -- paugh! wow! ouch!

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 Various

  • A son who was ashamed of his father because his father was an author -- a son who -- paugh!

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

  • A son who was ashamed of his father because his father was an author; a son who -- paugh -- why ask which was the best blood?

    The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

  • 'My tenantry' -- paugh, and the back of his hand to you because you are no better than an Englishman! "

    Patsy 1887

  • Larry's mouth -- "is smokin ': for the smoke shows you, as it were, the life o' man passin 'away like a puff -- (paugh!) -- just like that; and the tibakky turns to ashes like his poor perishable body; for, as the song says --

    Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832

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