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The word croup, which comes from the Lowland Scotch, signifies merely hoarseness in breathing or coughing, and is therefore, strictly speaking, the name of a sign of disease, rather than that of the disease itself.
He did not object; but asked if we were free from small-pox, diphtheritis, croup, measles, scarlet-fever, whooping-cough, and such like maladies in our country at present.
Look how it's raining; the child will get croup, or rheumatism, or something if we take him; there's Father standing over on the green near the tennis-court talking to a man.
Remember no time ought to be lost in obtaining medical aid; for the commencement of the disease is the golden opportunity, when life might probably be saved. At what age, and in what neighbourhood, is a child most liable to croup, and when is a mother to know that it is about to take place?
Soon the mass, being too tightly packed, could advance no further; pikes clashed in the air, and the arrows of the Barbarians were shivering against the walls. Hamilcar was to be seen on the threshold of Khamon. He turned round and shouted to his men to move aside. He dismounted from his horse; and pricking it on the croup with the sword which he held, sent it against the Barbarians.
Furthermore, there was room for two one in the saddle, and one on the croup. "I should like to see him," said Sancho; "but to fancy that I am going to mount him, either in the saddle or on the croup, is to ask pears of an elm-tree. Let each one shave himself as best he can; I am not going to be bruised to get rid of any one's beard."
I didn't even wake up to see the Lake of Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, or Bahr Tubariya, as it is variously called. A rather common sickness is what Sir Richard Burton called Holylanditis and I've had it, as well as the croup and measles in my youth.
To get rid of them, I came away sooner than I intended." "Well then," said Mrs. Cliff, "perhaps there is some one in particular that you would like to have." "That's it exactly," said Burke, "there is some one in particular." "And do you mind telling me who it is?" she asked. "Since you ask me, I don't mind a bit," said he. "It's Miss Croup." Mrs. Cliff started back astonished.
It is a case of geyseral membranous croup. I exceedingly longed to try vivisection on a geyser, or at least take one of half a hundred, drain it off, and make a post-mortem examination. On my very last day I found opportunity. I found a dead geyser, though not by any means yet cold. It was still so hot that people had given it an infernal name.
To me, at first, it meant the life of Carlotta, and then a blank in my newly ordered scheme of things. The curse of ineffectuality still pursued me. I had allotted to myself my humble task the development of the new generation in the form of Carlotta's boy, and even that small usefulness was I denied by Fate. A chill, a touch of croup, an agonised watching, and the tiny thing lay dead.
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