Noun : She got the hiccups just as she began to speak. ,a hiccup in the stock market. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The motor hiccuped as it started. ,There was general alarm when the economy hiccuped. From Dictionary.com.
The merchant gasped, a breath like a huge hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
I had seen him so 'high' as to hiccough and stutter. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"Why, it's short for hiccough," Augustus said blithely. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Forestus extols them for allaying sickness and hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Every hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted it. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
"Mmm-hmm," she said, managing to hiccough through her tears. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol]
Despite this hiccough, I thought the talk went reasonably well. From Wordnik.com. [TSS DSL Keynote Recap] Reference
A great hiccough which was almost a sob rose from Herb's throat. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
Just as her head was falling to one side, she gave a big hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
For instance, how many people now spell hiccup as hiccough?. From Wordnik.com. [As I Please] Reference
There was also occasional hiccough, and stitch on drawing a long breath. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
She strangled on another hiccough and stopped crying long enough to ask. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
The pickpocket gave a hiccough and a cry of alarm that was very much like. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
Infrequently hiccough may be the result of cold feet, or a surface chill. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
A cloudless night coming ... and hardly a hiccough in the arrangements. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]
“Aw, nothing to mention,” I mumbled while he stopped a volcanic hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
While others proceeded up the cursus honorum without a hiccough, I marked time. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
I stand there for maybe an hour, hiccough and whisper, and hold on to the door. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger] Reference
"Yes, plaize," gasped Billy, bravely swallowing the recurrent hiccough of grief. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
"To think I shared a glass with that Mindrell!" he said with a doleful hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [Reiffeins Choice] Reference
His chivalry was of the moist kind, and his emotion made him hiccough several times. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
It sounds a little bit like the Nixon tapes, in that you get every hum, er and hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [Exporting—and Reimporting—the News] Reference
He laughed again, and as he laughed, the engines far below our feet gave a sudden hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [The Ship That Saw a Ghost] Reference
Or who just glided effortlessly through life with nary a hiccough, much less a contretemps?. From Wordnik.com. [On David Remnick, Jack Cashill, and the authorship of “Dreams From My Father”] Reference
At this, Professor Trelawney gave a wild little laugh in which a hiccough was barely hidden. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
"You are quite detestable," she told him in an icy voice unfortunately spoilt by a hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [Grasp A Nettle]
With that he hiccoughed again, at least a 7.5 on the hiccough scale, and keeled over sideways. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
Eryximachus is ready to do both, and after prescribing for the hiccough, speaks as follows: —. From Wordnik.com. [The Symposium] Reference
Then he gave a sound, half choke, half hiccough, that was meant for a laugh; and presently he turned round. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
"But I shall mind it," insisted M'Iver, pursing his lips as much to check a hiccough as to express his determination. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Her face was bowed forward and covered with her hands, and she was shaken at intervals by the convulsive hiccough of grief. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
Also a distilled water of Spearmint is made, which will relieve hiccough, and flatulence, as well as the giddiness of indigestion. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
He would represent a man in liquor who had stopped at a fountain that flowed with a gentle sound, somewhat like that of his own hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892] Reference
The four men looked at the apparition in silent amaze for a moment, then one of them said, with an unmistakable hiccough and a silly smile. From Wordnik.com. [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference
Grandi, though, was delighted with today and despite one hiccough. From Wordnik.com. [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference
Sometimes I hiccough when I eat food but don't drink anything, and this was one of those times. From Wordnik.com. [brianstorms] Reference
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