cougher

For a long moment there was a still silence in the court, punctuated only by a hacking cougher in the audience.

More chameleon than Camille, Dustin proves himself just as natural a cougher.

The cougher had stopped.

Dr. Irwin won't give an opinion on the cougher as music critic, but I don't think he goes to a lot of concerts.

The cougher coughed again.

Pō-mare means 'night cougher', a nickname he took, as was common in that time, because his son coughed at night (see: Ariitaimai).

And the smell aroused by that stirring brought a coughing, quickly muffled, as if the cougher was trying very hard to subdue those racking spasms.

Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall: Mozart is on the music stands and save for a recalcitrant cougher, not a creature is stirring.

It starts with what seems like a mild cold, but then turns into a nasty cough, or whoop, that can leave the cougher breathless, blue and vomiting.

In some regions, it is also called Kaszlak literally "cougher" (derived from kaszel meaning "cough", as its engine's sound resembles a cough when it is started).

A recent piano recital by Misha Dichter at Carnegie Hall, for example, was marred when a cougher disrupted a particularly absorbing account of Schubert's great Sonata in B flat (D. 960) precisely at the work's most sublime moment.

For those outraged by the cougher's art (my father once came back from a Vladimir Horowitz recital in Richmond, Va., announcing that "every consumptive in the surrounding counties" had been present) Dr. Irwin, who has made coughing a field of expertise, offers little solace.