"Hiccough" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I, with a hiccough! 'ordered for service in a better world, where there are neither inspections ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... would say, staring helplessly in his face, and yielding to the genial hiccough which refused to be kept down, "he be gone to 'Merriky, poor dear, to better hisself, I make no doubt. Don't ye take on so. It's a weary world, it is; and that's where he be ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... Punshon or one of the others will be on guard at the farther end. Pay no attention to him. There is only one light—on the left. Keep to the right, in the shadow. Stagger as you go; if you can manage a hiccough, the imitation will be all the more lifelike. Punshon will expect something of the sort, and he will not trouble you, for he knows that when I am fuddled I am quarrelsome. 'Tis a diverting world, Anastasia, wherein, you now perceive, habitual drunkenness and an unbridled ...
— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell
... Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still. My physical state is deplorable—perpetual hiccough and ...
— The Parasite • Arthur Conan Doyle
... you the health of the foremost apostle of Liberty in the Western world, the General who tamed the savage tribes, who braved the elements, who brought to their knees the minions of a despot king." A slight suspicion of a hiccough filled this gap. "Cast aside by an ungrateful government, he is still unfaltering in his allegiance to the people. May he lead our Legion victorious through the ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... night. Night, night, fly by night. You play grasshopper whose back is concave. Concave, concave, whose back is concave. You play Bang-nga-an who shines like gold by the trail. By the trail, by the trail, shines like gold by the trail. You play onombek who hiccoughs. Hiccough, hiccough, who hiccoughs. You play dove who falls. Falls, falls, who falls. You play lagadan (a bird) who flees(?). Flees, flees, who flees. You play balgasi (?) who mourns for the dead. Mourns, mourns, mourns ...
— The Tinguian - Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe • Fay-Cooper Cole
... hiccoughs. A scare has the same effect sometimes. If the hiccoughs still continue troublesome after these simple remedies try to cause vomiting by drinking lukewarm water, which will get rid of the offending material causing the hiccough, ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... spent nearly two hours in macerating the stems, using a couple of logs for mallets. The fire blazed up, the water boiled. About two o'clock in the morning, Kolb heard a sound which David was too busy to notice, a kind of deep breath like a suppressed hiccough. Snatching up one of the two lighted dips, he looked round the walls, and beheld old Sechard's empurpled countenance filling up a square opening above a door hitherto hidden by a pile of empty casks in the cellar ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
... the 'Stute Fish, 'This man is very nubbly, and besides he is making me hiccough. What ...
— Just So Stories • Rudyard Kipling
... tumble all right!" And Mr. Lavender found himself, with Mr. Crackamup, in the lobby. "It's bewildering," he thought, "how quickly he settled that. And yet he had such repose. But is there some mistake?" He was about to ask his companion, but with a distant hiccough the small man had vanished. Thus deserted, Mr. Lavender was in two minds whether to ask to be readmitted, when the four gentlemen with notebooks repassed him in single file into the ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... Tagalogs call it "niogniogan" (like cacao). This kernel is a powerful anthelmintic, used also in India, the dose for a child of 4 years being 2-4, pulverized and mixed with a little molasses or sugar. A large dose produces hiccough, a fact well known to the natives. Dr. Bouton states that they may cause convulsions and ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera
... A weird, whizzling sound added itself to the other noises. Every gasp brought them nearer the hill, where, at the foot, the engine gave one awful hiccough and ...
— The Motormaniacs • Lloyd Osbourne
... looking at me, he added, 'have you anything to say against him, young man?' 'Not a word,' said I, 'save that he regularly puts me out.' 'He'll put any one out,' said the man, 'any one out of conceit with himself;' then, lifting a mug to his mouth, he added, with a hiccough, 'I drink his health.' Presently the landlord, as he moved about, observing me, stopped short: 'Ah!' said he, 'are you here? I am glad to see you, come this way. Stand back,' said he to his company, ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... and as he laughed the engines far below our feet gave a sudden hiccough. Something crashed and struck the ship's sides till we lurched as we stood. There was a shriek of steam, ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris
... trap. "I'll hiccough him!" she breathed mysteriously, and leaving the children to watch the candy, she went out on the porch and closed the door ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... on straight? Did you not receive orders that these—" and as Lawrence had not the slightest idea what "these" were, he substituted a loud hiccough for the unknown name, and contented himself with pointing with an unsteady hand. "Did you not understand these had to be perfectly concealed? Now that one is not perfectly concealed, for I can see ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney
... hiccough, "for then I shall know the truth, and for the truth I live, though," he added, "I haven't found ...
— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard
... involuntary evacuations of the bowels; dizziness, deafness, coma, grinding of the teeth; retention of urine; petechiae; a rapid decline of the patient's strength; a quick, small, weak pulse; rapid breathing; twitchings, tetanus, hiccough, &c.—Closing up of the nose frequently precedes a dangerous affection of the brain. A sudden disappearance of the rash, or of the inflammation of the throat, is a bad omen. With such symptoms as these, there is usually little or no rash, and the little there is, of a pale, livid color, and ...
— Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms • Charles Munde
... Roger wouldn't believe me when I told him about it afterwards. He said I was drunk myself and that he heard me tumbling up the stairs to bed. Which is a lie. I did see it, and it was drunk. I heard it hiccough! I wouldn't say it was drunk if it wasn't. De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Quinny, and it would be a very dirty trick to slander a poor bogey that can't defend itself. It looked very like its descendant, Lord Middleweight, and it had the same soppy grin ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine |
