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Then, suddenly taking between his big seaman's paws this head found once more, he began to kiss her, as one kisses kindred flesh. And after that, sobs, a man's deep sobs, heaving like great billows, rose up in his throat, resembling the hiccoughs of drunkenness. He stammered: "And this is you this is you, Francoise my little Francoise!"
The mere fact that, in some persons, vomiting, hiccoughs, micturition, etc., can be caused by perceptions of sight or of hearing proves that representations of this character have a tendency to become translated into acts.
And, as Lorilleux led him away, he turned around, and stuttered out a last sentence, between two hiccoughs. "When you're dead listen to this when you're dead, it's for a long, long time." Then followed four years of hard work.
Nobody treated the prisoners more brutally, who protested against the foul food served out to them, than he. "It is too good for bastards who are going to be guillotined.".... "He got drunk with the turnkeys and with the commissioners themselves. One day he staggered in walking, and spoke only in hiccoughs: he would go in that condition.
The women regarded each other in silence. Bedient stayed, until the tardy May dusk effaced the city, all but the myriad points of light. Beth Truba awoke late. Goliath of Gath had just fallen with obituary hiccoughs and a great clatter of armor.... She sat up, and reviewed recent events backward. The stone had sunk into the forehead. David came down to meet the giant smiling.
To Chick, only, the sound seemed to be familiar, for he laughed and wagged his head and pointed to the yard. "It sounds like hiccoughs!" said Bertie, his head on one side. Myrtella's mouth closed like a 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 behind her.
I'm going into the vestry room. J. has just come." He took himself off, walking upon his tiptoes. This other, however, her lips tightly compressed, made a despairing gesture with her hand, and at length managed to say: "Can't talk." "Why, heavens, child, whatever is the matter?" "Makes them worse when I open my mouth I've got the hiccoughs."
From the kitchen, at intervals, came up doleful snatches of "Then you'll remember me," interrupted by hiccoughs, and with involuntary variations and cadenzas that would have driven "Balfy" mad. All was ready and they drove off. The house wherein had lived a Benefactor of Mankind was deserted. Greenleaf found a carriage for Mrs.
The spasms were greatly relieved by cocain administered by the mouth, as much as 15 grains being given in twelve hours. Laborde and Lepine report the case of a young girl who was relieved of an obstinate case of hiccough lasting four days by traction on her tongue. After the tongue had been held out of the mouth for a few minutes the hiccoughs ceased.
Lorelei turned from the man on her left, who had regaled her with an endless story, the point of which had sent the teller into hiccoughs of laughter, and said to John Merkle: "I'm glad I'm with you to-night. I don't like drinking men." "Can a girl in your position afford preferences?" he inquired, tartly. Thus far the banker had fully lived up to his sour reputation. "All women are extravagant.
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