"Exclaiming" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flames which destroyed his body. While preparations were making for the immolation of Tatepocoshe's wife, her brother, a youth of twenty years of age, suddenly started up, took her by the hand, and to the amazement of the council, led her out of the house. He soon returned, and exclaiming, "the devil has come among us, (alluding to the Prophet) and we are killing each other," he reseated himself in the midst of the crowd. This bold step checked the wild frenzy of the Indians, put an end to these ...
— Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet - With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians • Benjamin Drake
... by confidently adopting it. As some did not approve of the views of the minister, and others suspected the intentions of Mirabeau with respect to him, he closed his speech, one of the most eloquent he ever delivered, by displaying bankruptcy impending, and exclaiming, "Vote this extraordinary subsidy, and may it prove sufficient! Vote it; for if you have doubts respecting the means, you have none respecting the want, and our inability to supply it. Vote it, for the public circumstances will not bear delay, and we shall be accountable for ...
— History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 • F. A. M. Mignet
... going forward, when Mandy Ann rushed in and pulled her back, exclaiming: "Oh, sar, not wid dem ...
— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes
... them. I was a small girl when the war was on. My brother went to war with Marse Satterwhite. When de Ku Klux and paddrollers traveled around in that section, they made Mr. Satterwhite hold the niggers when they was whipped, but he most all the time let them loose, exclaiming, 'they got loose'—he did not want many of ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various
... yonder bugle! 'Tis Gwalchmai's shrill blast Exclaiming one struggle, Then all will be past, Another, another! It peals the same note As erst when together Delighted we fought! But then it resounded With victory's swell, While now it hath ...
— The Poetry of Wales • John Jenkins
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