ohs

I once got a round of "ohs" from the Central Park Birders when the Long Eared Owl we had been silently watching wake and go through its daily ablutions suddenly took flight a full ten minutes earlier than the night before! and literally skimmed the hair on my head with its claws/talons before it swooped over the Bow Bridge and disappeared into the Ramble.

The Mountain, Some Feathers, Strong Looking and Swoops Lemon Hound 2009

Christian encounters Malice! oh its heart warming, or would be if i didn't keep my heart in a glass jar on the shelf. all these little "ohs" are littering my day today- its like i keep being surprised by something.

mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004

"The very devil would be in it in that case," said Sancho; and letting off thirty "ohs," and sixty sighs, and a hundred and twenty maledictions and execrations on whomsoever it was that had brought him there, he raised himself, stopping half – way bent like a

Don Quixote 2002

There were many "ohs" and "ahs" as I taxied in and parked my wounded bird, and we found on looking at her on the ground that I had taken several small hits along with the big one.

Thud Ridge Broughton, Jack, 1925- 1969

Then, as William gazed and gazed, his eyes aching with the dazzling lights, there was a movement in the surging crowd, a murmur of "ohs" and "ahs."

English Literature for Boys and Girls

The rest of the gifts were distributed without accident, and then by common consent a great unwrapping began, accompanied by rapturous "ohs," and plenty of "thank yous."

Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

The sobs grew longer, less hysterical: changed into long "ohs" of misery; died away.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

Jimbo kept silence mostly, his instinct ever being to conceal his ignorance; but Monkey talked fifteen to the dozen, filling the pauses with long 'ohs' and bursts of laughter and impudent observations.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

Getting through with her "ohs" Anne cast herself into Marilla's arms and rapturously kissed her sallow cheek.

Anne of Green Gables 1908

These "ohs" were caused by Augustus having got so beside himself that he actually bent down and kissed my shoulder!

The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903