"Now, Kitty, you may
cough as much as you choose," said Mr.
Snagsby drinks and murmurs with an admiring
cough behind his hand, "Dear me, very fine wine indeed!"
Sparsit shook her head, still in her highly superior manner, and a little changed the small
cough - coughing now, as if the spirit of prophecy rose within her, but had better be
coughed down.
The frost bites their lungs, and they get the dry
cough. They
cough till the tears run down their cheeks.
(
Cough,
cough,
cough!) You might as well keep your hats on.
She had noted the slight, dry
cough, the daily brightening cheek; nor could the lustre of the eye, and the airy buoyancy born of fever, deceive her.
He was rambling in imagination on these terraces, and had quite lost himself among them indeed, when he heard the
cough once more.
His brother got into bed, and whether he slept or did not sleep, tossed about like a sick man,
coughed, and when he could not get his throat clear, mumbled something.
If my
cough takes me, I shall
cough out twenty matches afore I gets a light.'
Thus engaged, with her right elbow supported by her left hand, Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in, but
coughed just one grain of
cough.
"Enough," he said; "the
cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me.
Chronic bronchitis, "a nasty 'acking
cough," was what they chiefly suffered from; one went to the H.P.