hiccoughs

My sobs were uncontrollable now, racking my body like hiccoughs.

The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

History boggles minds but also opens them; and allowing for hiccoughs and setbacks, it tells a tale of progress which turns young minds towards optimism as well as understanding.

In praise of… history | Editorial 2011

My sobs were uncontrollable now, racking my body like hiccoughs.

The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

Add to this a rampant failure to acknowledge and palliate agonizing symptoms like breathlessness, itching, hiccoughs, nausea, dizziness, bedsores and draining wounds of surgery.

Barbara Coombs Lee: Everyday Elder Abuse 2010

This particular sweet nut was named Ladislas Wisniewski—two hiccoughs and a sneeze will give you the name perfectly, Alcott joked.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

But the energy of the stories carries the reader past occasional hiccoughs; it makes a thoroughly entertaining read.

Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Then yesterday evening, when I tried to switch on the laptop to do some writing, it had hiccoughs and wouldn't turn on.

Archive 2009-08-01 Imogen 2009

While using literal light and shadow, Reiniger also relied on the shadings of music: the fine variations in her animations often parallel the tone and stress of musical notes rather than the hiccoughs of flip-book style animating techniques.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (and other shadow beings) Heather McDougal 2007

While using literal light and shadow, Reiniger also relied on the shadings of music: the fine variations in her animations often parallel the tone and stress of musical notes rather than the hiccoughs of flip-book style animating techniques.

Archive 2007-06-01 Heather McDougal 2007

Then yesterday evening, when I tried to switch on the laptop to do some writing, it had hiccoughs and wouldn't turn on.

Short break... Imogen 2009