coughings

The memory of the fear that had torn her as her children approached death was the most vivid of her life: she could remember the coughings, the painful breathing.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

The memory of the fear that had torn her as her children approached death was the most vivid of her life: she could remember the coughings, the painful breathing.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

The memory of the fear that had torn her as her children approached death was the most vivid of her life: she could remember the coughings, the painful breathing.

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

The memory of the fear that had torn her as her children approached death was the most vivid of her life: she could remember the coughings, the painful breathing.

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

The usual time being now consumed, the minister who had labored hard, and not without sundry hesitations and coughings to accomplish his task, brought it to a conclusion, and announced an appropriate hymn.

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

Off in the gloom to one side of us a myriad of hoofs beat the earth, the hoarse coughings continued, the animal odor exhaled -- but it was no longer a force to be reckoned with.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Bison to the right of us, bison to the left of us, an uncounted swarm behind us, and as many before -- but they neither bellowed nor thundered; they passed like phantoms in the night, soundlessly save for the muffled trampling of cloven hoofs, and here and there upon occasion hoarse coughings that were strangled by the wind.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Margaret rose and jumped up and down repeatedly in a well-calculated area, whereupon the voice of Penrod cried chokedly, "Quit that!" and there were subterranean coughings and sneezings.

Penrod 1914

Margaret rose and jumped up and down repeatedly in a well-calculated area, whereupon the voice of Penrod cried chokedly, "QUIT that!" and there were subterranean coughings and sneezings.

Penrod Booth Tarkington 1907

And she sat up that night in an arm-chair by the nursery fire, ministering at intervals to the child, who seemed impressed and heartened in his coughings by his mother's presence.

In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907