| I breathed irregularly, occasionally hiccuping in my attempts to stop crying. |
| Her friend's husband, a Peruvian poet named Vallejo, appears on the verge of hiccuping himself to death from an undiagnosed illness. |
| The scornful laughter of the corpulent man was accompanied by a slight hiccuping. |
| Soon, my tears were gone and I was just hiccuping and sniffling. |
| My face red and blotchy, I leaned back in the seat, hiccuping now from trying to slow down the tears. |
| Later there was a telephone call, Marya hiccuping through tears and speaking in anxious half-Polish phrases. |
