He's fell down-stairs, an' out of a cherry-tree, an' choked on fish-bones, an' had green-apple colic, an' been kicked by Squire Pettijohn's bull, an' tumbled into Foxes' Gully,-and that ain't but six things that might ha' killed him an' didn't.
"The Brass Bound Box"
Evelyn Raymond
He rolled the hand over and over on his lap, as if it had been somebody's baby; and a baby with the colic.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller
It is not to be doubted that although Whitey was suffering from a light attack of colic his feelings were in the main those of contentment.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington