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"Expectorate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... clay or a 'nose-warmer,' which, for convenience, you carry upside down. Not so very long ago it was considered unseemly to smoke a pipe at all in the street unless you belonged to the humbler orders, who inhale their nicotine through the stem of a clay and expectorate with a greater sense ...
— The Social History of Smoking • G. L. Apperson
... was called upon to ask him. Few crossed the threshold of his door saving his sons, who went to see him regularly. At last he had a difficulty in swallowing, which produced a kind of cough. Had he been strong enough to expectorate or be sick, he might have lived a little longer; but the frame-work was worn out, and in a fit of coughing the great old man drew his last breath. He was confined to his bed but two or three days. I am told he looked ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various |
Words linked to "Expectorate" : spit up, discharge, spew, eject, take, expectoration, spit, expectorator, take away, sputter, expel, ptyalise, spue, clear out, exhaust, cough, remove, spit out, splutter, ptyalize, withdraw, release |
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