megrim

Example Sentences

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Now will I have the headach, or the megrim, or some excuse; for I'm resolved I'll not rise to prayers.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

Bartley Fallon: And a sort of a megrim in my head, the same as a sheep would get a fit of staggers in a field.

From New Irish Comedies by Gregory, Lady

Why should she learn it is the correct thing to say she is not at home when she is, or that she is suffering from a foolish megrim when she isn't?

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

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