Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hiccough is caused by a spasm of the diaphragm and results sometimes from irritation of the mucous membrane of the stomach, as by alcohol...
After a two weeks' spasm...
...they are endowed with souls as you are, my poor, misguided boy. I have been praying for them the past hour; I would that I might see them before I do more for their salvation." I was thunderstruck. "What, Uncle Luther, you want to go to the theatre?" A spasm seemed to seize him at the mention of theatre, but he bravely held out, "Yes, Nathaniel, I would see the beautiful, misguided women before I pray for them on Friday night...