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- adverb In a
coughing manner.
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Examples
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The "able seaman" took the reeking, nicotine soaked affair, placed it gingerly between his teeth, held a match to the bowl and coughingly emitted a cloud of ill-smelling smoke.
Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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