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See also: "ejaculation" used to be synonymous with "exclamation" and it's used heavily all across the Sherlock stories eg "The ejaculation had been drawn from

See also: "ejaculation" used to be synonymous with "exclamation" and it's used heavily all across the Sherlock stories eg "The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture." For a list see https://thetaleofsirbob.blogspot.com/2013/07/watson-and-other-excitable-characters.html?m=1 https://thetaleofsirbob.blogspot.com/2013/07/watson-and-othe... If you mentally insert some commas some of them are really funny.

1659447091 2y ago
> "The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture." Makes the "romance" books my grandmother would read sound like they were lifted from the Sherlock stories
nprateem 2y ago
Whenever I read Dickens or whatever and there's a sentence like: "Stop!" he ejaculated I can't help adding a mental full stop to make 2 sentences. Childish I know :D Makes for some strange additions to the story