ague
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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
By the time we reached St. Paul's and turned on to Aldersgate Street, I was sweating and trembling as if in the grip of the ague.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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
In 1763, an English clergyman, Edward Stone, found that willow tea eased the agues of malaria.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year; and you can go no whither, but you tread upon a dead man's bones.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
To shuddering want's unmantled bed, Thy horror-breathing agues cease to lead, And gently on the orphan head Of innocence descend.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
Vocabulary lists containing ague
The Tempest
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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Scrabble: Four-Letter Words with 3 Vowels
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