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She wouldn't have known him except for his hair and that was terribly tousled; and his eyes, though they were wild and angry. His voice was hoarse, and while he glared at her, he coughed with a hard, croupy resonance. "So you came back, did yuh?" he asked grimly at last. "Well, you didn't get a chance to plug me in the back.
I'm going to make arrangements to get a special message through, no matter what time it comes, and I'll sit here in the parlor and wait for it, so that you two ladies can sleep." "Oh, I'd be so glad to have you here! Redge has that croupy cough again. But you can't sit up," said Lois. "Why not? It's luxury to stay awake in a comfortable chair with a lot of books around.
Warships from other countries were hovering around our southern coast, and our soldiers were feeling pretty blue, the cabinet never smiled, and nobody laughed out loud except Uncle Abe, and even his laugh seemed to have a hollow, croupy sound.
And since the baby is so croupy I'd get out his winter flannels, if I were you." "Yes, dear," said the patient wife. "Make your mind easy. I'll take just as good care of them as if they were my own children." Of course this is an extreme case. There are other fathers whose whole idea of the parental relation seems to be indulgence.
"Dear me," said the younger man, "I'm sorry." "Yes. I'd a bad cold, and I spoke very hoarsely when I went to bed. And in the night she woke up and heard a croupy sound. It was this," and Mr. Bowdoin produced a compressible rubber ball with a squeak in it. "'James, said she you know how she says 'James'?" Mr. James Bowdoin admitted he had heard the intonation described.
Two words as holy as her prayers, were on her dying lips "Ernest!" "Albert!" According to these venerable ladies, Albert, who was certainly a delicate, nervous child, was one of those "little angels" who are destined not to survive the dimpled, golden-curled, lisping, and croupy period; being too good and sweet and exquisite for this wicked and rough world.
I dwell on the difference between the two: the first which has been called false croup, or better catarrhal croup, and the second called true croup, or diphtheritic croup, in order to save much needless apprehension to parents, in whose mind the croupy sound is invariably associated with nothing short of that most dangerous disease diphtheria.
In the twenty-four hours, as it turns round with the earth, that steeple points toward all the corners of space, and constantly it points toward Eternal Wisdom and Justice in every corner. This is tiresome? All right, then we'll stop. But whether we tire or interest you, remember: As a man thinks, so he grows. Think, study, use all the hours that separate your croupy cradle from your gloomy grave.
Had it not been for her baby, who was ailing and croupy, had it not been for the sudden drying up of that sensitive fountain, she would have felt safe and relieved. Perhaps it was this which tended to make all her impressions mournful and gloomy. As the tide rapidly fell, a great flock of black brent fluttered by her, screaming and crying.
Just as one jerk always led to another, so one blow was usually the prelude to a thrashing. Johnnie saw that he must stop the thing right there; must have instant help in diverting Barber. Taking a quick, deep breath, he sounded his call for aid a loud, croupy cough. It was instantly answered.
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