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> It was early in April in the year ’83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. “Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” said he, “but it’s the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”

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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 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-othe...

If you mentally insert some commas some of them are really funny.

> "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

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

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