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Ouch  n.  A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person. "A precious stone in a rich ouche." "Your brooches, pearls, and ouches."





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"Ouch" Quotes from Famous Books



... hear the Lord, nor did he follow Him; but afterwards, as I said, [attended] Peter, who adapted his instructions to the needs [of his hearers], but had no design of giving a connected account of the Lord's oracles [or discourses] ([Greek: all' ouch hosper suntaxin ton kuriakon poioumenos logion] or [Greek: logon).' So, then, Mark made no mistake while he thus wrote down some things as he remembered them; for he made it his one care not to omit anything that he heard, or to set down ...
— A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays • Walter R. Cassels
 
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... admitted Uncle Wiggily Longears. "Of course it would, my dear, only you see—ouch! Oh, me! Oh, my!" and poor Uncle Wiggily Longears wrinkled his nose and made it twinkle like a star on a frosty night, and he wiggled his ears to and fro. "Oh, that was a terrible sharp pain," he said. "I don't believe I'd better go, children. I'm ...
— Sammie and Susie Littletail • Howard R. Garis
 
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... "Ouch! Say! Hold on there, my man! Take your hand off my shoulder! You're crushing me with those big ...
— Tom Swift and his Wizard Camera - or, Thrilling Adventures while taking Moving Pictures • Victor Appleton
 
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... somebody! Help a fellow, won't you? Ouch! they're murdering me by inches. Oh! my stars, what can ...
— Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys - The Birch Bark Lodge • Silas K. Boone
 
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... Reddy Woodpecker stepped into the cold water he wanted to say "Ouch!" But Jimmy Rabbit put a finger on his mouth—meaning that Reddy must be ...
— The Tale of Jasper Jay - Tuck-Me-In Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey
 
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... ye cowardly little devil," roared Mack to his persisting assailant. "No one will hurt you! Come away, man! A-a-ah-ouch!" His cry of satisfaction at having grabbed his man ended in a howl of pain, for the Frenchman had got Mack's thumb between his teeth, and ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor
 
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... musk, right proudly doth she go, With gold and silver and rose and saffron-colour aglow. A flower in a garden she is, a pearl in an ouch of gold Or an image in chapel set for worship of high and low. Slender and shapely she is; vivacity bids her arise, But the weight of her hips says, "Sit, or softly and slowly go." Whenas her favours I seek and sue for my heart's desire, ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous
 
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... "Ouch!" roared the giant in a voice that shook every leaf in the forest. "You stop, or I'll tell my father!" With that, he gave a hop that sent Sir Hokus flying into the treetops, stumbled over a huge rock, and came crashing to the earth, smashing trees like grass blades. At the giant's ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
 
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... clutched with both hands at Jack's hair, giving a hard pull. Jack gritted his teeth, panting, until at last the torment forced him to utter a pain-wrung "ouch!" ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Spies - Dodging the Sharks of the Deep • Victor G. Durham
 
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... "Ouch, how I hate June-bugs," she muttered, stopping for the fifth time in as many minutes to drive out a buzzing intruder. She had just gotten one out when another flew straight at her unperceived and tangled himself in her hair. That was the ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
 
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... stay," agreed Cora, "but Denny is a very old friend of Freda's family, and, to tell you the truth, we could hardly break away when he started in to tell sea-yarns. Ouch! The mud is deep. I guess we must ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose
 
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... "Ouch, stop that!" yelled the fellow, dropping a stout stick he held in his hand and beating a hasty retreat, half stifled by the fumes of ...
— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh
 
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... jolly old dense one," said Bones. "And let me say here and now"—he rammed his bony knuckles on the table and withdrew them with an "Ouch!" to suck away the pain—"let me tell you that, as the Latin poet said, 'Ad What's-his name, ad Thiggumy.' 'Everything human's ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
 
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... possible form for the father to appear before the clergyman, particularly when his child has ouch sponsors as Eric of Falla, and his wife. When the door to the pastor's study swung open and Jan of Ruffluck in his soiled workaday clothes calmly shuffled into the room, just after the pastor had begun the service and there ...
— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof
 
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... d' ouch ho logos tou rhetoros, Aischine, timion, oud' ho tonos tes phones, alla to tauta proaireisthai tois pollois, kai to tous autous misein kai philein, housper an he ...
— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell
 
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... taking these for the signs of guilt. "Hallo! our pattern Bess has never been doing anything wrong, has she? And so very wrong that—ouch! Hal, what was that for? I'll thank you not to be kicking me ...
— Bessie Bradford's Prize • Joanna H. Mathews
 
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... "Ouch!" again yelled the Cast-iron Man, giving at the same time such a great jump that he leaped square on his feet. But now, to their joy, they saw he was facing the mountains instead of ...
— The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People • L. Frank Baum
 
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... green, ruby fire and tender blue as he folds all these youngsters in his embrace. Those spines he must fold very close, even to the withdrawing of them into his orange colored cambium layers, for there is never an ouch ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard
 
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... "Ouch! somebody kicked me then!" Larry shouted. "Frank, there's more'n one of 'em, and they're inside here, feeling around for us. Go slow, Frank! Have your gun ready when you light up. Pepper 'em good, ...
— The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - or, Young Aviators in a Wreck • John Luther Langworthy
 
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... padded the track-line with a towel and put it around my waist, then plunged in. Ouch! it was cold, and going seven miles an hour. The boys lowered me to the spot where I was supposed to dive or reach down. It was only five feet deep, but, struggle as I might, I could not get even my arm down. I ducked and dived, but I was held in the surface like a pennant on ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton
 
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... he said. "This is a place of mystery. Know where the water went? There's a passageway down here; it's big enough to crawl through. Ouch!" ...
— Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
 
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... vorbass der inner mensche in der einung unbeweglich und got lest den ussern menschen her und dar bewegt werden von diesem zu dem. Das muss und sol sin und geschehen, dass der usser mensche spricht und es ouch in der warheit also ist, 'ich wil weder sin noch nit sin, weder leben oder sterben, wissen oder nicht wissen, tun oder lassen, und alles das disem glich ist, sunder alles, das da muss und sol sin und geschehen, da bin ...
— Memories • Max Muller
 
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... I land I say: 'Take that, darn you!' And it pleases me to imagine that with every crack Mr. Putnam Jones lets out a mighty 'Ouch!' Now listen! Didn't that sound a little like an ouch?" Mr. Dillingford rubbed a spot clean on the handle of the flail and pressed his lips to it. "Good dog!" he murmured tenderly. "Bite him! (Whack!) Now, bite him again! (Whack!) Once more! (Whack!) Good dog! Now, ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
 
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... bottoms of his trouser-legs came down over his shoes, his coat-tails fell about him properly, uncovering his shield and his belt, and his club took its place at his right side. "Ouch!" he exclaimed. And began to scratch hard at the spot just between his shoulder-blades. At the same time, the tears that were in his cap flowed out and down his face. So that he seemed to ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates
 
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... to say it was a ten days' run leeward, when he broke off sudden with "ouch" instead, being kicked hard under the table, and pretending it was the ...
— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne
 
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... smile Crosby walked over to Sissy and grasped her hand. He let it go with an "Ouch!" that made Mrs. Pemberton turn majestically and glare ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
 
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... who never hurries, kept right on pulling over sticks and stones just as if he didn't see or hear Unc' Billy at all. In fact, when he pulled over one stone, he dropped it right on Unc' Billy's tail and didn't seem to hear Unc' Billy's "Ouch!" as he pulled his tail from under the stone. Jimmy just went ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Mocker • Thornton W. Burgess
 
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... "Ouch!" came the sudden exclamation, as the point of the pin reached its mark, and the fellow leaped partly to his feet. "What in thunder——" And then the ...
— Dave Porter and His Rivals - or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
 
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... course, you will pay close attention. It will do you more good than carving Andover on the benches. There's not much space left on them, now, and it's still early in the season. Catherine, will you tell us the object of the meeting? Ouch!" for Archie had reached lazily behind her and given one of her yellow braids a ...
— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett
 
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... to laugh again, and then he jumped down, and before I knew it hit me a punch on the nose. That made me so mad that I hit at him and it struck his leg, and he said, "Ouch," and jumped so that I looked at his leg, and saw it was black and ...
— W. A. G.'s Tale • Margaret Turnbull
 
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... n[a]ch dem almuosen lie[z]e g[e]n, [e] danne er sich die kleine w[i]le von gote wolte wenden. In habent die engel wol sehzic hundert j[a]r an gesehen, und sehent in hiute als gerne als des [e]rsten tages. Und sie sint ouch alle samt sam des [e]rsten tages, d[o] sie got an sehende wurden. D[o] wart ir deheiner s[i]t nie eltl[i]cher danne des [e]rsten tages, und sint doch sider wol sehzic hundert j[a]r alt. Swelher hundert j[a]r alt w[u:]rde under uns, der w[ae]re den liuten alse sm[ae]he an ze sehenne von ...
— A Middle High German Primer - Third Edition • Joseph Wright
 
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... Now, on—two," he tried to swing his feet above his head, but, with an "Ouch!" from Dawney, they collapsed, and sat abruptly on the floor. This untimely event brought the evening to an end. Dawney left, escorting Cousin Teresa, and Harz strode home humming The Blue Danube, still feeling Christian's ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
 
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... 'h de (haretae) poiaetou sunezeuktai tae tou anthropou kai ouch oionte agathhon genesthai, poiaetaen, mae proteron genaethenta andra agathon.] ( Lib. I. p. ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge
 
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... looked up with a start, and then smiled. "Yes, I twisted my right ankle yesterday by falling down a gully, and ouch—don't make me move 'cause it hurts like sin. Glad it isn't sprained though. It ought to be well in four or five days. Anything you want? Anything we can do for you? If there is, go ahead and do it yourself. The rest of the fellows ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump
 
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... Miss Smith. "I'll explain in just one minute when I'm done with the madame here." With fast-moving fingers she firmly drew the handkerchief about the young matron's crossed wrists. Madame Ybanca uttered a sharp little "Ouch!" ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
 
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... kicking purposes, I raised my foot, removed the slipper and laid it upon a taut section of his trousers with all of the melancholy force that I usually exert in slicing my drive off the tee. I shall never forget the exquisite spasm of pleasure his plaintive "Ouch!" ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
 
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... pleasing prospect, but things might have been worse. And the end paid for all. Robinson had departed with trailing banners; the coaches and the whole college were happy; Paul was happy; Sydney was happy; he was happy himself. Certainly the bally shoulder—ouch!—hurt at times; but, then one can't have everything one wants. His meditations were interrupted by voices and footsteps outside the front door. He bolted the last morsel of bread and ...
— Behind the Line • Ralph Henry Barbour
 
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... glow—the doctor took little Sammy in his lap, and told him he was a very good boy, and looked deep in his eyes, and stroked his hair, and, at last, very tenderly bared his knee. Sammy flinched at that; and he said "Ouch!" once, and screwed up his face, when the doctor—his gruffness all gone, his eyes gentle and sad, his hand as light as a mother's—worked the joint, and felt the knee-cap and socket with the ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan
 
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... said 'Ouch!' and rubbed the spot where the apple had hit him. But he forgot all about it in his enjoyment of the apple he was now eating while stepping out from under the tree. He was munching away at the fruit when another apple hit him, this time squarely on ...
— The Children of France • Ruth Royce
 
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... was occasion; and when I was come near, I parted the branches of a rose-bush and peeped through—wishing the man was about, I was looking so cunning and pretty—but the sprite was gone. I went there, and there was a pinch of delicate pink dust in the hole. I put my finger in, to feel it, and said OUCH! and took it out again. It was a cruel pain. I put my finger in my mouth; and by standing first on one foot and then the other, and grunting, I presently eased my misery; then I was full of ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
 
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... and musk, right proudly doth she go, * With gold and silver and rose and saffron-colour aglow. A flower in a garden she is, a pearl in an ouch of gold * Or an image in chapel[FN291] set for worship of high and low. Slender and shapely she is; vivacity bids her arise, * But the weight of her hips says, 'Sit, or softly and slowly go.' Whenas her favours ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
 
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... three!" He did snatch it and jump, but the trap jumped, too, in its own trappy way, and the Rat who got the cheese left the three tip rings of his tail to pay for it. "Ouch!" he cried. "My tail! My tail! My beautiful, long, bony tail, all covered with scales and short hair!" He did not care at all for the cheese now. He did not want to see it, for he would rather have had the point on his tail again than to eat ...
— Among the Farmyard People • Clara Dillingham Pierson
 
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... separated, had it not been for a sudden exclamation from Curly. "Ouch!" cried that worthy, and cast from him the body of Bill. supposedly defunct. "He bit me again, blame him!" said ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough
 
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... "Ouch!" he exclaimed as he sat down on a wet seat. "Here, wait a minute before you sit there, Flossie. I'll put the rubber blanket down ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair • Laura Lee Hope
 
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... "Ouch," exclaimed Magnolia, "that tickles! There's more to acting as a Christmas tree than I had anticipated ...
— The Venus Trap • Evelyn E. Smith
 
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... not. I haven't been, all evening. I went up-stairs about, oh, I don't know, about half an hour after dinner ...Ouch!" ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
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... "Saunders—OUCH; I'd as soon be scalped and done with, as to have you pull out a hair at a time—Saunders crawled home with a bullet in ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
 
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... me great pleasure to come—faithfully searching my pockets as I grope forward. Thus," he said, laughing, "I must grope only with my head and feet, which is a slightly dangerous thing to do. Ouch! Where ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
 
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... are you talking about?" gasped Mr. Bingle, drawing back a step or two. Mr. Flanders grabbed him by the arm. "Ouch!" ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
 
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... He's always sorry and ashamed afterward. He'd like to be as kind as God. I believe if he could only fool us into thinking he was God, he could act like Him—ouch, Bella! Go easy." ...
— Snow-Blind • Katharine Newlin Burt
 
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... and to partake in a sacrifice which he every year offered upon the summit of a high[720] mountain. We are told by Strabo, that the Persians always performed their worship upon hills[721]. [Greek: Persai toinun agalmata kai bomous ouch hidruontai; Thuousi de en hupseloi ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
 
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... "Some engineers!" Barnard observed. "Ouch, but my head hurts! Going down, hey? I don't like those shadow bridges; it's all a matter of taste, I suppose. Oh ...
— Tom Slade at Black Lake • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
 
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... einen sin, Si giengen an ir bette wider, Und leiten sich da wider nider, Von einander wol pin dan, Reht als man and man, Niht als man and wip; Da lac lip and lip, In fremder gelegenheit, Ouch hat Tristan geleit ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent
 
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... ta hyper tes kephales astra megalen echein ten metabolen, kai me tauta phainesthai pros arkton te kai mesembrian metabainousin; enioi gar en Aigypto men asteres horontai, kai peri Kypron; en tois pros arkton de chorious ouch horontai kai ta dia pantos en tois pros arkton phainomena ton astron, en ekeinois tois topois poieitai dysin. Host' ou monon ek touton delon peripheres on to schema tes ges, alla kai sphairas ou megales. Ou gar an houto ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske
 
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... O moi ego ti patho; ti ho dussuos; ouch hypakoueis; Tan Baitan apodus eis kumata taena aleumai Homer tos thunnos skopiazetai Olpis ho gripeus. Kaeka mae pothano, to ge ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
 
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... worth of it, consecrated to Apollo at Delphos, but Pharyllus the tyrant stole it away, and presented it to Ariston's wife, on whom he miserably doted (Parthenius tells the story out of Phylarchus); but why did Vulcan make this excellent Ouch? to give Hermione Cadmus' wife, whom he dearly loved. All our tilts and tournaments, orders of the garter, golden fleece, &c.—Nobilitas sub amore jacet—owe their beginnings to love, and many of our histories. By this means, saith Jovius, they would express ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
 
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... momentarily along the dark sidewall, yanked at a cord which swayed idly to and fro with each light air current, and gazed expectantly upward. Nothing happened. Again a jerk, given this time with a certain vindictive delight. A muffled "Ouch!" came from the open window as a splotch of animated white appeared ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
 
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... "Ouch!" cried Reddy Fox, pulling his little black paw out of the water. And all the little Trouts laughed ...
— Old Mother West Wind • Thornton W. Burgess
 
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... my years. Now we durst not take him aboard lest we should fare amiss with the wight of the Sending Boat; so we naysaid him courteously, thanked him for his guesting, and gave him gifts, to wit, a finger gold ring and an ouch of gold, so he turned away from us somewhat downcast as we deemed; but ere we had given the word to the Sending Boat we heard him singing merrily in a high cracked voice as ...
— The Water of the Wondrous Isles • William Morris
 
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... invited them up here do I have to give up every shred of my independence?" She was lying in identically the same position in which she had dropped off to sleep the night before; now she turned and emitted a sudden "Ouch!" Not only was she stiff from head to foot; her whole body ached as though ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
 
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... getting the best of care. I—ouch!" His interest had exceeded his caution. The unbandaged hand had waved the flowers for emphasis and absently gripped the stems. The wild roses fluttered to the ground. "Gosh!" came dolefully, "I'm all full of thorns. Guess I'll have to pick 'em out ...
— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper
 
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... in rabbit, and 'flop' she went into the pond and struck out for the sunken log in the middle. Rag flinched but plunged with a little 'ouch,' gasping and wobbling his nose very fast but still copying his mother. The same movements as on land sent him through the water, and thus he found he could swim, On he went till he reached the sunken log and scrambled up by his ...
— Wild Animals I Have Known • Ernest Thompson Seton
 
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... Adair. The president was sent over here to get rid of me. That failing, word was passed down the line that I was to be effaced. A few hours ago this Mexican overheard me telling your sister what I proposed to do to North and the MacMorroghs. That's why he—Ouch! Roy; that is my arm you're trying to ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
 
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... caught a glimpse of myself through the eyes of van Manderpootz. Ouch! Perhaps I'm not a genius, but I'm dead certain that I'm not the grinning ape I appeared to be in his eyes. And perhaps I'm not exactly the handsomest man in the world either, but if I thought I looked like that—! And then, to ...
— The Point of View • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
 
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... "Ouch! You struck ME, you mean!" replied Ned, rubbing his shoulder, where the young inventor had imparted a ...
— Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone • Victor Appleton
 
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... "Enough! Enough! Oh! Ouch! Stop! You're landing on my naked skin, you know! Ow! O-w-w! I'll be good! I'll be good! I only wanted you to see my metamorphosis," he said ruefully, and I imagined he was ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London
 
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... you queer. I bet he is, but I don't know nothing for sure yet. I put a twist on him this morning and I see a letter now in the male-basket for you, so I says to myself, 'Scorch, what you said took like vaccination.' Ouch! ...
— A Little Miss Nobody - Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall • Amy Bell Marlowe
 
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... in another voice. "Ouch! What do you mean by kicking me in the ribs?" And a groan ...
— Dave Porter and His Rivals - or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer
 
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... "Ouch!" yelled the big elephant through his trunk, for though it did not hurt him much, he felt ...
— Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant - His Many Adventures • Richard Barnum
 
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... "Wo-o-ouch!" squealed the tall professor, bounding up again, and dancing wildly round the room, with his hands concealed beneath the tails of his coat. "That sofa is filled with broadswords and bayonets! It is stuffed ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish
 
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... "Oh, my! Ouch! Oh, shingles!" cried Uncle Wiggily, as he stepped up over the doorsill. "Oh, dear me, and a baseball bat! It's my rheumatism, as usual. It's ...
— Buddy And Brighteyes Pigg - Bed Time Stories • Howard R. Garis
 
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... in its expression now, would be suffused with disdain and scorn. No, no! such a fate is not in store for me; a sailor should know but one mistress, and she should be his ship. But the heart is a stubborn thing. I would not have believed that ouch a change ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray
 
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... shuffling step on the stairway, accompanied by spasmodic shrieks and an occasional "ouch." Roger looked up from his book in surprise as Miss Mattie made her painful way ...
— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed
 
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... whistled past him. It rolled him along the street, With his little feet pit-a-patting on the flags of the sidewalk, And his muffler and his coat-tails blown straight out behind him. It bumped him against area railings, And chuckled in his ear when he said "Ouch!" Sometimes it lifted him clear off his little patting feet And bore him in triumph over three grey flagstones and a quarter. The moon dodged in and out of clouds, winking. It was all very unpleasant for Mr. Spruggins, And when the wind flung ...
— Men, Women and Ghosts • Amy Lowell
 
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... look at that downpour, will you? I hope your father has the good sense to wear his rubbers. Ouch! Don't knock ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
 
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... away that marmoset! I can't bear 'em—I hate 'em, ladies! Ouch! He's all over me! He's trying to get into my pocket! Take him away, for the love of Mike, and I'll ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers
 
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... "Ouch! Say, you! Don't be so infernally rough about it. Kicking is a dangerous habit to get into. One of these days you will forget yourself and kick a Kentucky mule. Then ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers • Jessie Graham Flower
 
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... "Ouch! ouch!" he cried, rubbing his hurts; "the Philippines are far from the borders of the Rhine! For the same deed one is knighted, another put ...
— An Eagle Flight - A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
 
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... "Ouch!" he yelled, springing up, dancing about the floor, holding his clothes as far from his body as possible. "Here, you quit that!" he yelled, poking his head out of a window. "If you do that again I'll trim you with a pitcher of coffee and see how you ...
— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington
 
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... not for several moments that he remembered the fight or the circumstances leading to it. The grin that lit his boyish face at thought of its unexpected conclusion was a fleeting one, for he discovered that it hurt his face to smile. Briskly he rose, and grunted "Ouch!" His sides were sore from the rib squeezing of ...
— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine
 
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... anybody tell me there ain't no sech things as ghosts," faltered Uncle Jimmy Borton, who had always said there wasn't. "Let go, there! Ouch!" The command and subsequent exclamation were the inevitable results of his unsuccessful attempt to mount with ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
 
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... said Tough McCarty, receiving a solid thump in the ribs. "I can't stand here, getting pummeled all day. Got to hit him—ouch!" ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson
 
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... nearer to it, however, so they kept their faces turned toward it as it flitted here and there to all points of the compass. Presently the Lion, who was leading the procession, halted abruptly and cried out: "Ouch!" ...
— The Lost Princess of Oz • L. Frank Baum
 
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... Damascenus. "Apud Indos Persis finitimos sanctorum Barlaam et Josaphat, quorum actus mirandos sanctus Joannes Damascenus conscripsit." See Leonis Allatii Prolegomena, in Joannis Damasceni Opera, ed. Lequien, vol.i. p.xxvi. He adds: "Et Gennadius Patriarcha per Concil. Florent. cap.5: ouch htton de kai ho Ianns ho megas tou Damaskou ophthalmos en ti bii Barlaam kai Isaphat tn Indn ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
 
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... Osberne, so that by the end of the year he bade fair to be a good smith himself. Moreover, whiles would Stephen take a scrap of iron and a little deal of silver, as a silver penny or florin, from out of his hoard, and would fashion it into an ouch or chain or arm-ring, so quaintly and finely that it was a joy to look on. And every one of those things would Stephen give to Osberne with a friendly grin, and Osberne took them with a joyful heart ...
— The Sundering Flood • William Morris
 
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... fire department! Watch the people swarm! Uumpp! Ouch! Excuse me for living. This is no place for a peaceable spectator. I'm going to cast anchor in this doorway until ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
 
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... here quick, and pull these off! They're soaking wet, and I've got fifteen live gold-fish inside my trousers flipping around, and rasping the skin with their fins enough to set a man crazy. Ouch! Hurry that shoe off, and catch that fish there at my left knee, or I'll ...
— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)
 
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... care," returned the young seaman. "Wouldn't care much, anyway, but there's a mother at home who would! Ouch! There I go again. My mother'd be ashamed ...
— Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers • H. Irving Hancock
 
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... quiet horses of other days, little Arab ponies, with the devil in their frames, who fight and bite, caper as they run like so many goats, and break my splatterboard all to smithereens with their lashing out behind. Ouch! ouch! there they are ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
 
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... intervening space, and without a moment's hesitation plunged into the creek after me. I shortened my oar, and as he made a grab for the stern I suddenly lunged forward with all the force I could command. The blade took him fair and square in the wind, and with a loud observation that sounded like "Ouch!" he sat down abruptly in the water. Before he could recover himself I was ten yards from the shore, sculling vigorously for the ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
 
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... in his mouth. Oh, soft morsel, worthy of a king's desire! Now he could laugh at words of wisdom, and eat whatever came before his eye. But ugh! What was that strange feeling that—Ouch! it was the ...
— A Chinese Wonder Book • Norman Hinsdale Pitman
 
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... Schofield, this dancing class is provided by the kind parents of the pupilses as much to learn the mannerss of good societies as to dance. You think you shall ever see a gentleman in good societies to tickle his partner in the dance till she say Ouch? Never! I assure you it is not done. Again! Now then! Piano, please! One-two-three; one-two-three—glide! Mr. Penrod Schofield, your right foot—your right ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington
 
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... rehten minne pflag Da pflag man ouch der ehren; Nu mag man naht und tag Die boesen sitte leren; Swer dis nu siht, und jens do sach, O we! was der nu clagen mag Tugende wend sich ...
— Woman's Work in Music • Arthur Elson
 
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... ask me—" the first lady-in-waiting began, but before she could say more the Tsar reached over and stepped on her toe so hard that she was forced to end her sentence with a little squeally, "Ouch!" The Princess, you see, was smiling and the Tsar was hoping that presently she would burst into a laugh. So he ...
— The Laughing Prince - Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales • Parker Fillmore
 
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... "Ouch!" grunted Hazelton, stumbling over a stone with which his foot had collided. At Harry's exclamation Tom glanced up, then his eyes ...
— The Young Engineers in Mexico • H. Irving Hancock
 
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... way, yes, but in others, no. This is hard, firm ground, and we're not persecuted by mosquitoes. Nor is the country suitable for an ambush by a great force. Ouch, ...
— The Tree of Appomattox • Joseph A. Altsheler
 
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... exclaimed. And he was so pleased that he gave Mr. Turtle a good, hard slap on the back. "Ouch!" Tommy said. There was a look of pain on his face. He had forgotten that Mr. Turtle had such ...
— The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit - Sleepy-TimeTales • Arthur Scott Bailey
 
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... things is all right, but to wish to devote all of one's time to making them, just for others—ouch! it hurts me to ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard
 
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... could find it soon!" cried Billie, "for my tooth hurts very much. Ouch!" and he hopped up and down, for the toothache was of ...
— Uncle Wiggily in the Woods • Howard R. Garis
 
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... brenth breadth ort ought nan what wisht wish wunst once ouch oh cheer chair spook ghost furnentz opposite wanity vanity in wain in vain ornary ordinary for by to spare we bit small piece disremember do ...
— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham
 
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... took the lad by the collar, jerked him to his feet and shook him until Stacy yelled "Ouch!" so loudly as ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico • Frank Gee Patchin
 
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... "Ouch!" he cried, and then he forgot that he had asked Ben about that boy's having been in a circus. Ben was glad he did not have to answer ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus • Laura Lee Hope
 
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... easy-chair with my foot on a stool, and then I thought, "If the Lord should send me some work to do, would I be willing?" Now, thanks be to Him! I am willing, and glad to find myself so, and I do not believe there's any work more acceptable to Him than the union of young folk who love each other. Ouch!' says he, as that foot touched the ground. 'Perhaps you'd better pick me up and carry ...
— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips
 
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... What a lacin'! I never had anything like it before. The Chicago Terror, they call 'm. I take my hat off to 'm. He's some bear. But I could a-made 'm take the count if I'd ben in condition an' had my wind.—Oh! Ouch! Watch out! ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London
 
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... now, black against the brightening eastern sky. See that fellow give his neighbour a push with his beak, and hear the assaulted one scream out just like Mr. Thomas Sawyer in Sunday-school, whose special chum stuck a pin into him for the pleasure of hearing him say "Ouch!" ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett
 
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... coming on? I shifted uneasily on the hospital bed and scratched at an itch on my left hip. Ouch! It was a pimple. My head ached. My throat hurt. I itched. Julia was dead. The police were coming. I was alone. ...
— Inside John Barth • William W. Stuart
 
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