Do we say ohs or owes

ohs 14 occurrences

Of course Ida did not speak of the disagreement at Laburnum Villa, but she gave Jessie an account of the accident and her experiences of a hospital ward; at all which Jessie uttered "Ohs" and "Ahs" with bated breath and gaping month.

Polly gave one of her long-drawn "Ohs," then slipped out of bed, and began to dress so slowly that Martha said to her, "What are you dreaming about now, Polly?"

As she drew near she heard a treble chorus of "ohs!" and "ahs!" and saw Jack on the porch surrounded by children.

Their thousand ahs and ohs, These the sage doctor knows, He only from one point can heal.

What an explosion there was of exclamatory ohs and ahs when I had finished my recital, and in a burst of gratitude, somewhat of the theatrical sort, our actor shouted: "Hurrah for Kinko!

The "Hear hears" and "cheers" of friends, and the "Oh ohs" or "laughter" of opponents, certainly give an air of much greater excitement to the scene, and act as an encouragement to the orator.

" "I am certain some one is comingoh!oh!" These "ohs" were caused by Augustus having got so beside himself that he actually bent down and kissed my shoulder!

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While Aaron King, with James Rutlidge and Mr. Taine, with carefully assumed interest, was listening to Louise's effort to make a jumble of "ohs" and "ahs" and artistic sighs sound like a description of a sunset in the mountains, Mrs. Taine said quietly to Conrad Lagrange, "You certainly have taken excellent care of your protege, this summer.

"I told you so!" lisped the Barn Swallow; and a chorus of ohs and ahs arose that sounded like a strange message buzzing along the wires.

While the "ohs" were still struggling from their lips, Hodder, the butler, came into the room, doing his best to retain his composure under what seemed to be trying circumstances.

But a short interval showed him to be mistaken, for Jack, with his usual confident air, repaired to the buggy in which he had driven into town from his father's farm, and speedily produced a model that caused loud sighs of "Ohs!" and "Ahs!" to circulate through the juvenile portion of the crowd.

She was not a good scholar, and it took her some time to read the letter, a proceeding which she punctuated with such "Ohs" and "Ahs" and gaspings and "God bless my souls" as nearly drove the carpenter and his wife, who were leaning forward impatiently, to the verge of desperation.

Then followed, "ohs!" and "ahs!" and "wonders!"

owes 964 occurrences

The author, it will be remembered, was employed in a firm of ginger-beer bottlers before he took to literature, and Mr. WELLS, who contributes a Preface, dwells happily on the stimulating and phosphorescent quality which his literary work owes to his employment, and contrasts it favourably with the flatness of Eton "Pop."

Unlike the vipers, the colubrine poisonous snakes have small fangs, and their poison, though on the whole even more deadly, has entirely different effects, and owes its deadliness to entirely different qualities.

Senator Dawes soon became interested in this question, and from that time to the present he has been interested; and how much the Indian owes to the legislation which has been started and carried forward by Senator Dawes, but very few people know; but it must be followed by other legislation before the Indian is safe.

One owes them every care and thought.

Yet it must be at last confessed, that as we owe every thing to him, he owes something to us; that, if much of his praise is paid by perception and judgment, much is, likewise, given by custom and veneration.

SEE Cope, Harley F. What Uncle Sam owes you.

What Uncle Sam owes you.

Random House, Inc. (PWH of B. Atkinson); 24Feb70; R480387. KAUKONEN, J. L. What Uncle Sam owes you.

MOYER, ELLIOTT H. What Uncle Sam owes you.

SEE Cope, Harley F. What Uncle Sam owes you.

What Uncle Sam owes you.

'Plantagenet can never forget what he owes to you,' said Captain Cadurcis.

Flanders owes everything to its water communications.

It seems to point to a possible satisfaction; and yet it owes its poignancy to the fact that the heart is still unsatisfied.

The percentage of the higher spirits is few and does not seem to increase; yet the human race owes much of its advance in purity, nobility, and kindliness to them.

And thus there can be for any one man but a few places to which he owes such a pilgrimage, because, in the first place, the thing must not be too ancient and remote; it is of little use to see the ruined shell of a great house in a forest, because such a scene does not in the least recall what the eyes of one's hero saw and rested upon.

The English language is the only object, in his great survey of art and of nature, which owes nothing of its excellence to the genius of Bacon.

All we know of the matter is derived from Haywood, Ramsey, and Putnam, three historians to whose praiseworthy industry Tennessee owes as much as Kentucky does to Marshall, Butler, and Collins.

He owes you as much reparation as that, and we shall be able to see what members of the Scarborough family you would trust the most.

I'm trying to catch a chap that owes me something, you see.

He had quarrelled with him, but none the less he writes: 'If Mr. Bradshaw is yet alive, I here declare to the world and to him that I freely forgive him what he owes, both in money and books, if he will only be so kind as to make me a visit.

His "Ugolino" was a portrait, or a study, in the commencement; it owes its excellence to its retaining this character in its completion.

Chesterblade, 2 m. N.E. of Evercreech, perhaps owes the first part of its name to its contiguity to the camp on Small Down (mentioned below).

Creech St Michael is a village lying 3 m. E. of Taunton, on the edge of the alluvial plain, and perhaps owes its name to an inlet of the sea which once covered the latter.

It bears a motto and the date 1586, and owes its origin to Humfrey Walrond.

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