Cheups

Ma awoke every morning with a groan quickly routed by a brief loud cheups.

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Tee notices that "all that Ma could not crush or confound with a barked word or surmount with her lioness strength, she reacted to with a cheups, more or less loud, more or less long" (Hodge 16).

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The other two are vaguely disappointed, who dare not confess their disappointment more loudly than a careful cheups, and a small band of intellectuals, expatriates, name-droppers who tend to damn them.

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Why I don't know, but men seldom, if ever, cheups.

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