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  • We frequently meet with what some call an _interjective phrase_; such as, Ungrateful wretch! impudence of hope! folly in the extreme! what ingratitude! away with him!

    English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

  • "Critical Latin Grammar", which his son called "his best work," and which is not wholly unknown even now to the inquisitive by the proposed substitution of the terms "prior, possessive, attributive, posterior, interjective, and quale-quare-quidditive," for the vulgar names of the cases.

    Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • In it's interjective form it expresses a similar meaning to damn and the verb, to fuck has no adequate synonyms that convey the same strength, implication and connotation.

    Sunday, April 23, 2006, Taiwan Blog Round Up Michael Turton 2006

  • In it's interjective form it expresses a similar meaning to damn and the verb, to fuck has no adequate synonyms that convey the same strength, implication and connotation.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Michael Turton 2006

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