"Allowing for a few small hiccups, I don't think things have gone too badly."

And she gave the small, melodious hiccup.

In several weeks of talks there were only small hiccups.

A bagpiper was playing, but he must have been running for his instrument kept giving small ignominious hiccups.

Sometimes there are small hiccups in time, so that a line of dialogue crops up and is re-heard a few pages later, in a different context.

Against the power of that binary," Janeway said, "it was nothing more than a small hiccup.

'It's not for you to understand,' Nanny said, stifling a small hiccup.

So, it was a small hiccup in our five-day vacation.

Lord Golden gave a small hiccup that bordered on being a discreet belch.

I laughed ruefully, interrupting myself with a small hiccup.