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Expectoration   Listen
noun
Expectoration  n.  
1.
The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
2.
That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.





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"Expectoration" Quotes from Famous Books



... on. But presently it began to flag a trifle, and grow disjointed. The silences widened; the expectoration marvellously increased. Every pore inside the boys' cheeks became a spouting fountain; they could scarcely bail out the cellars under their tongues fast enough to prevent an inundation; little overflowings down their throats ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... abrupt end, and he gave emphasis to his words by a prolonged expectoration. Jacky, her eyes sparkling with ...
— The Story of the Foss River Ranch • Ridgwell Cullum
... again upon the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. Butler], who, omnipresent in this debate, overflowed with rage at the simple suggestion that Kansas had applied for admission as a State; and with incoherent phrases discharged the loose expectoration of his speech, now upon her representative and then upon her people. There was no extravagance of the ancient parliamentary debate which he did not repeat; nor was there any possible deviation from truth which he did not make, with so much of passion, I am glad to add, ...
— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay
... people not a pleasant way of being addressed. They seem to take a pride in addressing their employer (I must not say master or mistress) by their surname, as Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So, as often as possible. What Emerson calls the "fury of expectoration" is very rife throughout the colonies. If a floor or carpet is particularly clean the temptation to spit upon it is too great to be resisted. In the Court-house at Adelaide is a special notice requesting people not to spit on the floor. I suppose this habit is ...
— Six Letters From the Colonies • Robert Seaton
... princesses yesterday, but the Duke of Clarence did not think him so ill. I saw the Duke of Clarence's letter to the Duke of W. Halford thinks the expectoration ...
— A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II • Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough)


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