Common baby ailment

Usage examples of croup.

Croup examined the figurine minutely, turning it over and over in his hands, a Dickensian curator of the Museum of the Damned contemplating a prize exhibit.

The following treatment has been found very effectual in membranous croup, and is recommended by the highest authorities: Yellow subsulphate of mercury, or turpeth mineral, three to five grains, depending upon the age of the child, for one dose.

There are several quite distinct pathological conditions of the vocal and respiratory organs which have, in popular parlance, been designated as croup.

On the desk, to the right of the inclined part, slowly moving back and forth over the lieutenant's work, stood in tense posture a bronze, or perhaps only plaster shepherd about the height of a dachshund, who, as any dog fancier could see at a glance, was cow-hocked and let his croup, to the onset of the tail, slope much too steeply.

Then, holding the tails, they slipped off the horses' croups and galloped on foot behind them, going as fast as the horses did.

Then they hauled themselves up the tails, leapt onto the croups and bounced forward to the saddles again, and rode standing on them, and then, incredibly, standing on their heads—the horses still going at stretch-out gallop.

Hunter è visibilmen­te un ranger di livello elevato, il Marchese a tratti assomiglia a un ladro, Lady Porta a una maga con incantesimi di teletrasporto, mi­ster Croup e mister Vandemar sono due assassini potentissimi, Islington un negromante e Richard.

His hide was marbled with black in a lacy pattern across his shoulders and croup, while his mane and muzzle and eye patches were also shiny jet black, in startling contrast to the snowy hide beneath.

I’ve nursed five children, and buried three: and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, and with accomplishments at Minerva House—which I never had when I was a girl—when I was too glad to honour my father and mother, that I might live long in the land, and to be useful, and not to mope all day in my room and act the fine lady—says I’m a murderess.

From Jack’s childhood, he remembered his mother had put a humidifier in his room when he’d had the croup.

Impassibile, mister Vandemar osservava mister Croup prendere a pedate una lastra di vetro appoggiata al muro.

Many will remember that great epidemic of croup which desolated, thirty-five years ago, the quartiers bordering on the Seine at Paris, and of which science took advantage to experiment on a large scale as to the efficacy of insufflations of alum, now so happily replaced by the tincture of iodine externally applied.

The reader will remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the external tincture of iodine.