megrim

Example Sentences

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I'll be all right to-morrow, and I'll enjoy to-morrow all the more for to-day's megrim.

From The Inventions of the Idiot by Bangs, John Kendrick

The man came, prescribed for a megrim, and Alexander did not call him again; nor did he mention his mother's condition to the rest of the family.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Among others are these words: chapellin', chanch, coxy, corchey, dawnin', fettle, franzy, gell, megrim, nattering, nesh, overrun, queechy, plash.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis

I'd have called it a kind of a megrim myself, and, as I say, I certainly perceived a sort of charnel-'ouse smell in the room I'm in.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin

Even if he has no special craze or megrim, and does not decide offhand that a man is hopeless because he calls Charles the Great Charlemagne, or vice vers�, he is constantly out of focus.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George