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“Here the grey man expressed his astonishment and disapprobation by a prolonged whistle”
—Wenderholme II. 91.2
This is the interjection whew! But why does disagreeable surprise so express itself? I think it is rather when something turns out the contrary of what one expects.
The fox scheming to catch a goose would picture to himself the goose in some of its usual haunts, then he would imagine some way of pouncing upon it,
Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7122,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on