"Hiccup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... O'Keefe,' says the consul, getting the best of a hiccup, 'what do you want to bother the State Department about this ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... our middle-age-manners-adapter, Be it a thing to be glad on or sorry on, Some day or other, his head in a morion And breast in a hauberk, his heels he'll kick up, 865 Slain by an onslaught fierce of hiccup. And then, when red doth the sword of our Duke rust, And its leathern sheath lie o'ergrown with a blue crust, Then I shall scrape together my earnings; For, you see, in the churchyard Jacynth reposes, 870 And our children ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning
... hand the glass half full of rum, he staggered to the sofa, till then sacred to the Emir, and sank down on it with a contented hiccup. ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall
... derived from the fourth cervical segment (Fig. 205). Recession of the eyeballs, narrowing of the palpebral fissures, and contraction of the pupils result from paralysis of the cervical sympathetic. Respiration is almost exclusively carried on by the diaphragm, and hiccup is often persistent. There is at first retention of urine, followed by dribbling from overflow, and sugar is sometimes found in the urine. Priapism is common. The pulse is slow (40 to 50) and full; and the temperature often rises ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... for him. Lacking one important prop, he lost his balance, toppled over and fell heavily upon his side. 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 ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... a long candle to your saint for your luck to-day in meeting me," he said, with a slight hiccup. ...
— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths
... hiccup, provoked by the dampness of the situation, was answered by a groan, which, instead of being solid, was very hollow; and, as he peered vivaciously forward behind his extended lantern, there advanced from a far corner—O, woeful man! O, thrice unhappy uncle!—the spectral ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., Issue 31, October 29, 1870 • Various
... a pretty one for you to undertake. I don't know whether 'tis your Cambridge philosophy, or time, that has altered your ways of thinking," Lady Castlewood continued, still in a sarcastic tone. "Perhaps you too have learned to love drink, and to hiccup over your wine or punch;—which is your worship's favorite liquor? Perhaps you too put up at the 'Rose' on your way to London, and have your acquaintances in Covent Garden. My services to you, sir, to principal and ambassador, ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray
... /n./ A hiccup in hardware or software; a small, transient problem of unknown origin (less serious than a {snark}). ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... his end. His attacks became more and more violent: still he laughed at them. Once he was seized with a terrible choking hiccup, which threatened to suffocate him. The first moment he could speak he cried, 'If I get well, I'll write a satire on the hiccup.' The priests came about him, and his wife did what she could to bring him to a sense of his future danger. He laughed at the priests and at his ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton
... intoxicated, arose from their seats; and the Superior, dropping the goblet from his hands, endeavoured to assume a look of austerity, which his rosy countenance belied. The duke received a reprimand, delivered in the lisping accents of intoxication, and embellished with frequent interjections of hiccup. He made known his quality, his distress, and solicited a night's lodging for himself and his people. When the Superior understood the distinction of his guest, his features relaxed into a smile of ...
— A Sicilian Romance • Ann Radcliffe
... Mr and Mrs Boffin took their seats in the back compartment of the vehicle: which was sufficiently commodious, but had an undignified and alarming tendency, in getting over a rough crossing, to hiccup itself away from the front compartment. On their being descried emerging from the gates of the Bower, the neighbourhood turned out at door and window to salute the Boffins. Among those who were ever and again left behind, staring after the equipage, were ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens |
