I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and... throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at ano...ther man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Frau Stöhr ... began to talk about how fascinating it was to cough.... Sneezing was much the same thing. You kept on wanting to s...neeze until you simply couldn't stand it any longer; you looked as if you were tipsy; you drew a couple of breaths, then out it came, and you forgot everything else in the bliss of the sensation. Sometimes the explosion repeated itself two or three times. That was the sort of pleasure life gave you free of charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you.... Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We camped about two miles below Nicketow, on the south side of the West Branch, covering with fresh twigs the withered bed of a fo...rmer traveler, and feeling that we were now in a settled country, especially when in the evening we heard an ox sneeze in its wild pasture across the river. Wherever you land along the frequented part of the river, you have not far to go to find these sites of temporary inns, the withered bed of flattened twigs, the charred sticks, and perhaps the tent-poles. And not long since, similar beds were spread along the Connecticut, the Hudson, and the Delaware, and longer still ago, by the Thames and Seine, and they now help to make the soil where private and public gardens, mansions, and palaces are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apar...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »