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Example sentences for "cough"

Lexicographically close words:
couetous; couetousnes; couetousnesse; cougar; cougars; coughed; coughing; coughs; could; coulda
  1. Soon the skin became soft, its proper functions were restored, the disease of the lungs yielded, and the cough disappeared.

  2. If these results should be confirmed by further experience, we would have attained additional means of preventing the supervention of whooping-cough in measles; a triumph of art and science which should elicit our warmest gratitude.

  3. After Apis, the cough speedily begins to become looser and milder, to loose its dubious character, and to gradually disappear without leaving a trace behind.

  4. In Concan the dry bark is given for whooping-cough and the juice of the fresh bark in doses of 2 "tolas" (7.

  5. We have had occasion to use a mixture of equal parts of the resin with white vaseline spread on linen and applied between the shoulder blades; in the persistent cough of senile bronchitis the relief was marked.

  6. This decoction relieves the most obstinate asthma, as well as cough and bronchial irritation.

  7. Sore was the cough that shook her frame; That cough her patience did proclaim - And as she drew her latest breath, She said, "The Lord is sweet in death.

  8. He gave a sound between a cough and a grunt.

  9. Mr. Medwin gave a slight cough--a cough of incredulity.

  10. You know what a fuss they make about their servants; turning the house into a hospital for the slightest cold, and talking of 'dear Mr. Smith's cough medicine!

  11. Her cough shut her out of any churchgoing for a while, but she begged to wear her new furs to show Mrs. Hunt, and was given consent.

  12. I think she is a little afraid of taking whooping-cough herself, for she asked me yesterday if I had ever known of any grown person having it, and I do know of several cases.

  13. You will not have to study so very hard, for the whooping-cough must have plenty of outdoor air, and it would not do for you to be cooped many hours a day.

  14. I don't suppose Dippy and Tippy will get the whooping-cough if I play with them," she remarked to Heppy, feeling that if these playmates failed her she would be desolate indeed.

  15. I hope my whooping-cough won't get well for a long time.

  16. I've had the whooping-cough and I'm not a bit afraid of her.

  17. The heat had become very great and the fever redoubled its efforts; the cough became more obstinate than ever; a second hæmorrhage happened, and the prince threw up blood in quantity.

  18. He suffered from slight throat ailments from time to time; he was subject to a habitual cough and a daily discharge of mucus.

  19. One instant a man would shuffle and cough in one corner, then some one would grunt and groan as he turned restlessly in his sleep, and the happier few who had achieved slumber would snore laboriously.

  20. And if they gave him a drop of water in a teaspoon, he would cough and choke to such a degree that it was obvious that too frequent doses would be the end of him.

  21. My husband and I often wonder to each other where he gets the strength from to cough like that.

  22. You have a little dry cough when you are asleep, exactly like my father's, who is dying of phthisis.

  23. It is contrary to all rules and regulations to cough in that way!

  24. She doesn't furnish only flannels and cough sirup to the poor.

  25. As soon as that had occurred, however, and Mrs. MacCall had heard Ralph cough and heard about the itching, she made an examination.

  26. Mirko's cough has come back again," she said quietly.

  27. Your cough will get quite well; perhaps I can come and lodge in the town, and we could walk together.

  28. The waiters, with their cough of warning at the door, brought coffee and liqueurs, and then bodily removed the dinner table, and shut the doors.

  29. All we gotta do is make out to get ahead o' his old cough wagons and not let 'em pass.

  30. Jo now heard the cough of motors behind her, and, looking back, saw two trucks.

  31. A violent cold and cough led me to prepare myself for an inquiry into my views of death.

  32. Finding my sore throat and cough much increased, I thought there might be some danger, and felt rather low at the prospect of death.

  33. Wide-eyed and smiling she entered, and having some cough drops on my dressing-table, I did the honours.

  34. Cough drops of strength and potency they were, too, but sweet, and therefore acceptable to a small girl.

  35. Will you drag her out with such a cough as that?

  36. Proceed," said the lady, confiding a cough to the air.

  37. But, madam, do you hear that cough again?

  38. He walked to the window, and perceiving the pair in the same position when he faced about, he delivered a cough of admonition.

  39. He took six--and she ran away half crying.

  40. Neither did your Aunt Esther, but she's still teaching.

  41. You're of age, and children nowadays have no sense of natural obligation after they're grown up.

  42. Think of a beautiful, fruitful, home garden used for nothing but to play ball and fight in--and then blamed for its condition.

  43. Even a cough that he is troubled with is mentioned, if I remember right?

  44. His wearisome cough and his comfortless restlessness have certainly increased.

  45. That short, sharp cough of his troubled him more than ever.

  46. It does not matter where I go to cough and suffocate, I shall always love you.

  47. The whole night I could not sleep, as I suffered, besides cough and asthma, from very violent headache.

  48. George Sand, as we have seen, said that their sojourn was I in many respects a frightful fiasco; it was so certainly as far as Chopin was concerned, for he arrived with a cough and left the place spitting blood.

  49. But look how slender you have grown," answered Hekt, "and your cough will soon be well.

  50. Since you muttered your words over me, and gave me that drink to make me grow slight and lissom again, I have been shaken to pieces with a cough at night, and turn faint when I am dancing.

  51. For example: “Castanea is almost a specific in whooping cough and other spasmodic coughs.

  52. In asthma, spasmodic laryngitis, whooping cough, and nervous cough it has been recommended by Bartholow, but is little used.

  53. The caption of the pamphlet reads: “Cough and Its Treatment in Pulmonary and Laryngeal Tuberculosis: By Henry Levien, M.

  54. Inula (elecampane) has been employed as a cough remedy in England for centuries.

  55. A chronic cough with blood-streaked sputum may be the result of tuberculosis and cancer.

  56. Rogers states that he once had “a very troublesome cough which lasted several weeks, but did not yield to this serum.

  57. All this she delivers in disjointed sentences, with a little pause or a cough between each.

  58. He seemed about twenty- five, but he had the bowed and shrunken look of an invalid, and from time to time he coughed terribly, the ominous cough of a person with lungs half consumed by tubercle.

  59. But as days went on and the cough continued, they made up their minds that St Raphael did not suit Georges, and resolved to go on to Nice.

  60. The promise of this expedition made me deaf to his cough--a dry, convulsive cough which he tried to stifle by holding his silk handkerchief to his mouth.


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