Cough Drop

“A filthy rag, which he must have used as a handkerchief, and some cigarette butts in a cough-drop tin.” ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1971)

"Mr. Holcombe, if you saw one of the cough-drop Smith brothers in real life, would you recognize him?" asked Wynand. ❋ Rand, Ayn (1943)

One o 'the lightermen said I was a' wonder, 'and the other said I was a' fair cough-drop. ' ❋ Unknown (1903)

To expect a pill and receive a cough-drop is by way of being a sort of disappointment. ❋ Maurice Leblanc (1902)

Round and round we began to circle like game cocks spoiling for a fight; rising, forgetting, in the excitement, the cold of the upper air -- higher and higher, till Nap shouted, "We'll get her beneath us in the next round and then for a 'cough-drop' or the gun." ❋ Unknown (1900)

The old cough-drop don't mean to go without his _kady_! ❋ Arthur Shirley (1889)

Covering such gems as cocaine cough-drop marketed to children and the recent children's bead product that metabolised to ❋ Jes Fraser (2010)

You've probably seen the big, long horns in Ricola cough-drop commercials, and here's your chance to play one in the alphorn blowing contests. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The former candy and cough-drop factory owner envisioned a menu that mimicked the hearty fare from Omaha, where he grew up. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The symbol you choose for your mark may be pictorial, as the bearded representation of the Smith Brothers of cough-drop fame, who, as some would have it, are named, respectively, Trade and Mark. ❋ Unknown (1989)

Just the same, when you reach out for a cough-drop and get hold of a bunch of clinging fingers that aren't yours, and are not connected with anybody that belongs there, -- well, I for one don't take any chances with ghosts. " ❋ Ethel Hueston (N/A)

Jerry's Kathleen's little honey cough-drop boy! "chanted Danny. ❋ Lebbeus Mitchell (1921)