40 examples of hiccoughed in sentences

During her absence an intense silence pervaded the office, broken only by an occasional hiccough from one of Mr. Sizer's guests.

"Stuff an' 'umbug," he hiccoughed, as he struggled feebly with them, and cast enamoured and would-be reassuring glances at Ida's white and stern face.

Going to lick him," hiccoughed the rowdy, his eyes fixed on the elephant trainer.

Hiccough is a sudden jerking inspiration due to the spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm and of the glottis, causing the air to rush suddenly through the larynx, and produce this peculiar sound.

In answer to this, all that Gussie could produce was a sort of strangled hiccough.

anemography^, aerodynamics; wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather- vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope^. sufflation^, insufflation^, perflation^, inflation, afflation^; blowing, fanning &c v.; ventilation. sneezing &c v.; errhine^; sternutative^, sternutatory^; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.

"Lor, Mr. Bargrave," she would say, staring helplessly in his face, and yielding to the genial hiccough which refused to be kept down, "he be gone to 'Merriky, poor dear, to better hisself, I make no doubt.

"Hush up, old woman!" hiccoughed Godfrey.

'Well, my brave boys,' he hiccoughed.

When a man's tongue grows thick, and he begins to hiccough and walk cross-legged, we expect him, as a matter of course, to protest that he is not drunk; so when a man is always singing the praises of his own honesty, we instinctively watch his movements and look out for our pocket-books.

He made short work with them; frightened them away as one does by children when they have the hiccough; or if the malady were pertinacious and would not go, he fairly turned off the patient.

"who," he continued, "will put it in the" (a second stumble acted like a hiccough) "cellar.

"Don't look so damned haughty, little woman," he hiccoughed.

Upon seeing the young officer, broad-chested, vigorous and bronzed, Labarta, who was huddled in a great arm chair, began to cry with a childish hiccough as though he were weeping over the misery of human illusions, over the brevity of a deceptive life that necessitates continual renovation.

He wheedled, laughed, swore, and hiccoughed, turn by turn, but she was silent.

From time to time she hiccoughed helplessly.

a thick voice hiccoughed from the rear of the press.

my lord hiccoughed.

Harry was not to be baffled, and with a stammer and a hiccough he began: "I sayanow, old chap, don't be so fast to get rid of a cove.

then, my friend," said Lord Walterton with a laugh which soon broke into an ominous hiccough, "ye must not in that case play upon my system.

There went through my head that rhyme of Jackway's that he hiccoughed out as he drank with his cronieson my moneythat day last winter back in Madison: "Sold again, and got the tin, and sucked another Dutchman in!"

"Where's my orderly?" hiccoughed Sir John Johnson.

Sally hiccoughed, and Ruth suffered from internal rumblings.

Baron Haller has taken a great deal of pains to collect what has been said concerning it, and quotes many authorities to show that this plant has been productive of the most violent symptoms; such as anxiety, hiccough, and a delirium even for the space of three months, stupor, vomiting, convulsions, and death.

" "Old Tho-o-o-rney," was the hiccoughed reply, "has smoked thethe plot.

40 examples of  hiccoughed  in sentences