megrim
Example Sentences
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It is possible that some one may say "Connu!" both to the stories themselves and to the moral of real suffering, as opposed to mere megrim, which is so obviously deducible from them.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
"Mother has a megrim," she said; "she is in her chamber."
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
Sophia invisible with her vapours; Madeleine with the megrim; and you in and out of the house as excited and secret as the cat when she has licked all the cream.
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
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 George Willis Cooke
And intellectually, it would seem to be the result of a bad quarter of an hour of the author: a megrim of the soul.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
