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Updated: May 31, 2025
On the stairs of the hotel, while going up to his room, the strong smell of cooking onions came suddenly to his nostrils. It was delicious. Vandover breathed in the warm savour with long sighs, closing his eyes; a great feebleness overcame him. He asked himself how he could get through the next twelve hours. An hour later he went to bed, hiccoughing from the water he had been drinking all day.
A green and bosky confusion still hid house from house and masked from itself the all but motionless human life of the sleepy woods village. Only an adventitious China-tree here and there had been stripped of its golden foliage, and kept but its ripened berries with the red birds darting and fluttering around them like so many hiccoughing Comanches about a dramseller's tent.
There was the captain of the Thunderer, Collinson by name, Lord Comyn and two brother officers, Will Fotheringay, my cousin Philip, openly pleased to be found in such a company, and some dozen other toadeaters who had followed my Lord a-chair and a-foot from the ball, and would have tracked him to perdition had he chosen to go; and lastly Tom Swain, leering and hiccoughing at the jokes, in such a beastly state of drunkenness as I had rarely seen him.
At this point the speaker fell into ungovernable hysteria and exploded, rocking back and forth, slapping his thighs and hiccoughing with enjoyment. Willie followed him, as did Carara. Even Cloudy showed his teeth, and the two young people on the porch found themselves joining in from infection.
I put my arms about her to console her, but she wept so that, for all my seventeen years and pride of manhood, it set me weeping also, and with such a hiccoughing noise, since I had not a woman's knack of quiet tears, that it finally turned her own grief to laughter. "Charles would be flattered if he could see the gracious way in which we receive his kindness," said she.
Her face was quite heated with wine. "Does any one stand in the front of things like father does? He was the first, and he has been always the most zealous; he has done a good stroke of work, more than most men. And to- day he might well have been one of the leaders and have called the tune, if it weren't for that damned hiccoughing.
"Keyse, sir Corporal, A Company, Gueldersdorp Town Guard." "Well, Keyse, you've heard Meisje hiccoughing ninety-four-pound projectiles all the morning, haven't you?" "Couldn't possibly miss 'er, sir" the pale eyes twinkled as the Corporal finished "not as long as she misses me." "She has a talent for missing, otherwise a good many of us fellows would have heard the Long Call before now.
"C-c-couldn't remember a context," was her hiccoughing explanation of the breakdown, and henceforth Darsie had taken her in hand, fagged for her, petted her, scolded her, put her to bed, and ruthlessly carried off notebooks to her own study, to frustrate disastrous attempts at midnight toil. As for Dan, he was a giant among pigmies. Examinations had no terrors for him; his place was assured.
Aut quia quaerendi studio vis fessa parentum Aucupii aptas innuit esse manus." The Ephemerides gives examples of the child hiccoughing in the uterus.
An' as for me, I'm done with you, so there!" The woman looked after her as she bounced to the door, hiccoughing, holding the now empty glass in her shaking hand. Her brows were knit; she seemed in her muddled brain to be considering something. "The girl Grantley promised she'd come to-day," she said. "She promised she'd bring me something." "And did so, right enough.
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