His immediate 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 cornerO, woeful man!

His attentions to Professor Hailstones at Harrowgate were graciously offered and received; but in a letter to Murray he gives a graphically abusive account of Porson, "hiccuping Greek like a Helot" in his cups.

"Duh-hic-quite right," hiccuped Racey Dawson.

Whadda you say, boys?" "Shore," chorussed the "boys," and hiccuped like so many bullfrogs.

It was a highly liquid Bertram who, hearing his vis-à-vis give a couple of hiccups and start to speak bent an attentive ear.

" She gave a sort of hiccup and, darting forward, kissed me on the forehead.

These essential oils have greater or less volatility, and are all inflammable; many of them are poisons to us, as these of Laurel and Tobacco; others possess a narcotic quality, as is evinced by the oil of cloves instantly relieving slight tooth-achs; from oil of cinnamon relieving the hiccup; and balsam of peru relieving the pain of some ulcers.

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.

And of these latter at least half wore wooden shoes so that the sound of their feet on the cobbled roadbed made a clattering chorus that at times almost drowned out the hiccuping voices of the guns behind them.

Old Grimes took his money, let fall his hat in doffing it; had it given him, and rode away; his eyes isinglass, and set in his head, as I saw through the window, and in a manner speechlessall his language hiccup.

He shall be a knight, a baron; or by some false accusation, as they do to such as have the hiccup, to make them forget it.

Remote whispers suggested that I coached it home in triumphfar be that from working pride in me, for I was unconscious of the locomotion; that a young Mentor accompanied a reprobate old Telemachus; that, the Trojan like, he bore his charge upon his shoulders, while the wretched incubus, in glimmering sense, hiccuped drunken snatches of flying on the bats' wings after sunset.

Tough Bill took a board and painted a sign and hung it up outside his place; 'The Hiccup.'

And then his mother must needs come out on the door-slab and hiccup again and say, "God bless you!" and give him something.

" He poured the brandy into two big glasses and hiccuped with a laugh: "The cognac of an enemy tastes well.

With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet; To seek what ancient sages sought, Physic and food in sour and sweet: To take what passes in good part, And keep the hiccups from the heart.

Thankfully, the interview was very short and soon Rajan introduced me to the then Deputy News Editor of Herald, Francis Ribeiro, who after initial hiccups became my friend and mentor.

of Cornell Woolrich, now legal name (A); 13Dec65; R375779. Wild Bill Hiccup, by William Irish, pseud.

Homicidal hiccup.

of Cornell Woolrich, now legal name (A); 13Dec65; R375779. Wild Bill Hiccup, by William Irish, pseud.

Homicidal hiccup.

He does not hurry himself, he does not seek Adjectives other than those which custom puts into his mouth for all occasions; but the beauty of life penetrates his being insensibly till he gets drunk, falls foul of the local policeman, smites him into the nearest canal, and disposes of the question of treaty revision with a hiccup.

The fussy little clock gave a sort of preliminary cough or hiccup, as if it should say: "Ahem! ladies and gentlemen, I am about to strike."

Malmesbury tells us how the Prince reeled into the Chapel Royal to be married on the evening of Wednesday, the 8th of April; and how he hiccuped out his vows of fidelity."

If he had any doubts as to whom he beheld, they were removed by Sir Francis, who managed to hiccup forth "'Tis he, Sir Giles'tis Jocelyn Mounchensey.