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  • I did have one minor hiccough where the tension decided to go do-lally for no particular reason (i.e. wasn't at a bobbin change, etc) but I did catch it before I'd sewed too much, and of course, when the tension goes odd, it's often easy to unpick as one of the threads is just lying there with big loops around it ... One Hawaiian Down...
  • The test was supposed to reveal whether any urine was being refluxed back into this kidney, causing the enlargement, or whether it was merely due to a developmental hiccough. A better woman
  • Ugh! And the gassy effervescence that rises from the thin pipes of the little boys! and the street tunes eructed in a hiccough, like the run of a lamp-chain when you pull it up, mingling with the noisy bellow of the basses! The Cathedral
  • Like when— She was seized by a hiccough, and the violence made her cry again; Olivia patted her back until she could talk. Starting from Scratch
  • I ate too quickly and got hiccoughs.
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  • If people find your correction cumbersome and unclear, it will be jettisoned to land next to words like ‘doughnut’ and ‘hiccough’. Why I’m Thru With ‘GH’ | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • She let out a watery little hiccough that sounded quite a bit like a sob.
  • Rowdy pigs pushed the passers by off the side walk; tipsy pigs hiccoughed their version of "We wont go home till morning," from the gutter; and delicate young pigs tripped daintily through the mud, as if, like "Mrs. Peery-bingle," they plumed themselves upon their ankles, and kept themselves particularly neat in point of stockings. Hospital Sketches
  • I wrote a fic that took me a year to get done, but I posted each chapter as I went (every two weeks, with a hiccough here and there) and got feedback. Neurosis Averted « Morgan Dempsey
  • A suitable ‘expectation’ of Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician The Symposium
  • When I ha 'baked Depper's fourses cake, and sent it off by' Meelyer's little gal -- she ha 'lent her to me to go back and forth to the harvest-field,' Meelyer have -- I kin go," the wife said; "not afore," hiccoughing loudly over the tea she tried to drink; "not afore -- not afore! A Sheaf of Corn
  • Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician Symposium
  • No sobs or splutters or hiccoughs spilled from her trembling lip, although, her lip did tremble.
  • Hiccough" is a perfectly acceptable alternate spelling of "hiccup," and in fact precedes the latter; "hiccup" is a mistaken phoneticization that's stuck. This Comic Is Good – Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • With that he hiccoughed again, at least a 7.5 on the hiccough scale, and keeled over sideways. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • Every hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. Les Miserables
  • Or who just glided effortlessly through life with nary a hiccough, much less a contretemps? On David Remnick, Jack Cashill, and the authorship of “Dreams From My Father”
  • You can usually get rid of hiccoughs by drinking water very quickly.

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