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The fall jolted his mouth widely ajar, and from the depths of his great throat was emitted an immense but unmistakable hiccup a hiccup deep, sincere and sustained, having a high muzzle velocity and humidly freighted with an aroma as of a hundred hot mince pies. From the spellbound crowd rose a concerted gasp of surprise. Chieftain heeded it not.
The slaughter of MacLaren, a retainer of the chief of Appine, by the MacGregors, did not take place till after Rob Roy's death, since it happened in 1736. "Nor I neither," said Iverach. Major Galbraith took up the matter more solemnly, and, premising his oration with a hiccup, spoke to the following purpose:
Then, with folded arms, and a smile of placid defiance, he placed himself between her and Clodius. Clodius staggered forward, flushed with wine and rage, and uttering alternately a curse and a hiccup. "By Pollux, this passes a jest. Caesar, how dare you insult me thus?" "A jest! I am as serious as a Jew on the Sabbath.
The AETHER is an extraordinary Diuretic in DROPSIES: It is an excellent Medicine in an ASTHMA, and the HICCUP; and may be looked upon as a Specific in that Disease of Children called the HOOPING- COUGH, or CHIN-COUGH; in all which Cases it must be taken inwardly, according to the General Direction below, and the repetition of the Dose must be regulated by the violence of the Disease.
Some people become motionless by great surprise, the fits of hiccup and or ague have been often removed by it, and it even affects the movements of the heart, and arteries; but in our sleep, all external stimuli are excluded, and in consequence no surprise can exist. See Section XVII. 3. 7.
At last, one evening I hurried to his cabin, for I learned that this time his situation was such that even the most fastidious could find no fault with it he was tranquilly, serenely, symmetrically drunk not a hiccup to mar his voice, not a cloud upon his brain thick enough to obscure his memory.
“I mean taken out of the carcass.” “What do you think of a hiccup! physician?” “The hiccup! wretch!” ejaculated Bon-Bon, “the hiccup! abortion of a pill-box!” and the philosopher dropped a tear. “After all,” continued the visitor, “after all, if a dev if a gentleman wishes to live, he must have more talents than one or two; and with us a fat face is an evidence of diplomacy.” “How so?”
You must bring two horses an' tie 'em to the back fence just as if you were goin' ridin' yourself. Then we'll take 'em when you come into the house. Make the tie with a slip knot. We may be in a hurry." "Gee! This beats 'Hal Hiccup, the Boy Demon," crowed Bud, referring to a famous hero of Nickel Library fame. "I'll sure get you horses all right."
Skelper's, and a liberal allowance of boasting indulged in, as to how they would show each other the way over the hedges and ditches. The thing had long been talked of. Old Johnny Raw had asked Sir Harry to arrange the day so long ago that Sir Harry had forgotten all about it. Sir Harry was one of those good-natured souls who can't say 'No' to any one. Now, for the hiccup day.
Why, man, such carles as thou and I can hardly be called better than old hemlocks, decayed nettles, or withered rag-weed; but I suppose you think that we are still worth watering." "I am an old soldier, sir, I thank Heaven hiccup" "An old skinker, you mean, John. But come, never mind, show me the way to your mistress, old lad."
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