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  • No, he was calling people who take TV seriously hacks - his example of a hack was a person who made the same points as Wes did in the pilot, and in language that was in no way inflammatory or disrespectful and note the way he casually slips in a rather bizarre and unlikely typo - 'coughin' instead of 'coffin' - as yet another way of belittling the blogger.

    Dear Aaron Sorkin: One Tiny Studio 60 Response Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • I'll hang round out here; and ef ye should happen to have a ticklin 'in your throat, and a bad spell o' coughin ', I'll drop in, careless like, to see if you don't want them drops.

    The Twins of Table Mountain Bret Harte 1869

  • Teetotallism would put a shirt or a coat to your back -- a house over your head -- give you a bed to lie on, or blankets to keep you and the childre from shiverin ', an' coughin ', an' barkin 'in the could of the night?

    Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

  • Will it put a dacent house over my head, a good bed under me, and a warm pair of blankets on us to keep us from shiverin ', an' coughin ', an' barkin 'the whole night long in the could?

    Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

  •   He tries to talk but there's just this load of blood comes out, and he starts coughin.

    Stars 2010

  • It's that spring fever season, I know the coughin' feeling.

    LOSTCasts 49: The Man From Tallahassee 2007

  • But they heard movement around them — more of that coughin ', breathin' in the fog I described, sirs — and then, I guess, the two Esquimaux — the old man and his woman — came over a pressure ridge in the fog, just all more white fur, and Private Pilkington fired his musket and Bobby Ferrier fired his shotgun.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • My private enterprise trash collector, like many others in the area, drives a coughin ', smoke spewin' old pickup --- but he does perform a valuable service, paid for by all of us in the neighborhood.

    Redeemable project.. 2004

  • I'll start laughin, then start coughin like I got emphasema or sumthin.

    clashpunk Diary Entry clashpunk 2005

  • Britt stayed kuz she waz sick, are kouzinz waz coughin on her lol.

    clashpunk Diary Entry clashpunk 2003

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