phlegmy

Historical Examples of phlegmy

• Phlegmy coughs shook the air of the bookshop, bulging out the dingy curtains.

  Ulysses

  James Joyce

• A phlegmy cough, my dear lawyer; a complaint which is really most ridiculously absurd!

  The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6

  Eugne Sue

• Can you imagine that a man could stand calmly and hear himself charged with having a phlegmy cough?

  The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6

  Eugne Sue

• Gentlemen, I not only declare that my honourable opponent had not a phlegmy cough, but I trust he never will have one.'

  The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6

  Eugne Sue

• Either he might have said nothing, or contented himself with declaring that I had not the phlegmy cough.

  The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6

  Eugne Sue