"Hiccup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wine has penetrated us, a heaviness of the limbs follows, the legs of the tottering person are impeded; the tongue grows torpid, the mind is dimmed, the eyes swim; noise, hiccup, and quarrels arise.—"Lucretius, i. ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... am coming to now? My dear child, what I have just told you is the history of the hiccup—the history of the hiccup, neither more ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace
... noise had subsided, got on his legs, and with one hand rattling the five-shilling pieces in his breeches-pocket, and the thumb of the other thrust into the arm-hole of his waistcoat, thus began to address them.—"Gentlemen," said he, "I'm no orator, but I'm an honest man—(hiccup)—I feels werry (hiccup) much obliged to my excellent friend the Lord High Keeper (shouts of laughter), I begs his pardon—my friend Mr. Juggins—for the werry flattering compliment he has paid me in coupling my name (hiccup) with the Surrey fox'ounds—a ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees
... he, 'the most (hiccup) respectable man in two parishes,—except Master Aylwin's father, of course,—here am I, the organ-player for the Christianest of all the Christian churches along the coast, and here's my daughter sings heathen songs just like a Gypsy or a tinker. ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton |
