The children coughed in their sleep.

Then an owl hooted, and from near at hand came the cough of a deer.

Again Donnegan winced, and coughed behind his hand to cover it.

And the old man actually chuckled himself into a fit of coughing at his grim sarcasm.

" Coughing from the lemon tea, and greatly amazed by his hasty dismissal, Mr. CLEWS followed Judge SWEENEY from the room and house in precipitate haste, and, when they were fairly out of doors, remarked, that the gentleman they had just left had surprised him unprecedentedly, and that he was very much put out by it.

Perhaps it was largely because he had heard other men cough like this, and that for generations his sledge-dog ancestors had heard men cough as Radisson coughedand had learned what followed it.

"Not under the present circumstances," retorted the mourner; he and the ghost both coughing with the colds which they had taken from standing still so long in such a damp place"not under the present circumstances," he repeated, wildly, making a fierce pass at the spectre with the skeleton, and then dropping the latter to the ground in nerveless despair.

Even teaching was out of the question, for, reckoning over her accomplishments, I had to come down to reading, writing, and arithmeticand in reading the chapter every morning she always coughed before coming to long words.

He had a cough for many years before he died.

"If they want to force us to kill or be killed" Another fit of coughing on the part of the poor silversmith prevented further conversation, so the workmen and apprentices retired to their homes, carrying with them hammers and saws, and other implements, more or less cutting, more or less bruising, disposed to sell their lives dearly.

Cutbeard produces a parson with a bad cold, who can speak only in a whisper, to marry them; and when the parson coughs after the ceremony Morose demands back five shillings of the fee.

"May I be permitted to"he coughed as a suppressed snicker ran round the court"that ismay I noterOh, look here!

" In Devonshire it has long been held unlucky to transplant parsley, and a poor woman in the neighbourhood of Morwenstow attributed a certain stroke with which one of her children had been afflicted after whooping-cough to the unfortunate undoing of the parsley bed.

The people he met on the street were more or less familiar to his memory, but many that should have recognized him failed to do so, and others were made to notice him rather by his cough than by his face.

The soldier next me, who had been through the fight at Maubeuge, coughed throughout the nighta hollow, retching cough.

From somewhere not more than a long rifle-shot away, a Ford was coughing under full pressure of gas and with at least one dirty spark plug to give it a spasmodic stutter.

And these beliefs died so hard in these lonely Yorkshire villages that until recent times a mother would carry her child suffering from whooping-cough along the beach to the mouth of the cave.

I fancied the boy was delicate; he certainly had a bad cough during the first few days.

Noon of the next day brought the Panther coughing into the bay, flanked on the port side by a scow upon which rested a twin to the iron monster that jerked logs into her brother's chute.

The Boreal couldn't insure men who ought to be upon their dying beds instead of coughing around Insurance offices.

As the train stops you drowse if you have been waking, and wake if you have been in a doze; but in any case you are aware of the locomotive hissing and coughing beyond the station, of flaring gas-jets, of clattering feet of passengers getting on and off; then of some one, conductor or station master, walking the whole length of the train; and then you are aware of an insane satisfaction in renewed flight through the darkness.

"Dead, ain't he?" queried Benny, half-coughing over his words.