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Added to that, they ague their aircraft are quiet and emissions-free.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022
So while Shakespeare had his "canker in the bud", voguish words such as palsy, purge, apoplexy, ague and balm were used by Donne repeatedly to make his work sound cutting-edge.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2012
This too shall pass, when the final games ends; and World Cup fever will again abate into soccer ague.
From Time ● Jul. 10, 2010
“If I didn’t stay to see some of the fight,” she tells us, “I would forever be filled with the echoes of regret and the ague of remorse.”
From Washington Post
It frightened and amazed me somewhat; and as for Arthur, he fell a-trembling, and finally was shaken with doubt as with an ague.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Political analyst Mr Lawal said the president should appoint the best person for the job, irrespective of their ethnic origin – and agues that this is what Tinubu is doing.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
Today, winter as well as summer, he bathes his feet in cold water every morning, a regimen he credits with making him impervious to colds and agues.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1763, an English clergyman, Edward Stone, found that willow tea eased the agues of malaria.
From Time Magazine Archive
She charmed warts and cured agues, and was even held by many to be somewhat of a witch.
From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela
They find a world of medicinal plants likewise in that country, and amongst the rest the planters pretend to have a swamp-root, which infallibly cures all fevers and agues.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert
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The Tempest
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Scrabble: Four-Letter Words with 3 Vowels
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