The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

It was undoubtedly, said my uncle Toby, a great happiness for myself and the corporal, that we had all along a burning fever, attended with a most raging thirst, during the whole five-and-twenty days the flux was upon us in the camp; otherwise what my brother calls the radical moisture, must, as I conceive it, inevitably have got the better.

-- -- -My father drew in his lungs top-full of air, and looking up, blew it forth again, as slowly as he possibly could.