megrim
Example Sentences
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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
The toy held a chosen perfume or essence supposed to be reviving in case miladi felt a swoon or megrim about to overwhelm her; as ladies did in past centuries and do no longer.
From The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
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
One of his lampoons had almost cost him a procession at the cart's tail; nor did he either spare friend or foe, if the megrim of abuse once seized him.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Theophilus Cibber
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
