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.