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hiccups

NOUN
diaphragm spasms
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Inside it, the kingcups bloomed and the brook whelmed up from its source.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

A hundred yards away, at the bottom of the slope, ran the brook, no more than three feet wide, half choked with kingcups, watercress and blue brooklime.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The cowslips, the purple orchids, the kingcups, the primroses!

From Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Eden, Horatia K. F.

A wild cherry, all silver white, was behind their Altar, the green floor was marbled with cuckoo flowers and buttercups, and the clear little stream whose voice murmured by was fringed with kingcups and forget-me-nots.

From Under the Storm by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Tennyson, The Brook. are unmistakably iambic, and Wordsworth's Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin



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