megrim
Example Sentences
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"As you refuse to hearken to the voice of common sense, and afflict yourself with a megrim, I leave you to your fate."
From Rossmoyne by Unknown
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
"Mr. Manners was in Derby, and Mrs. Manners had a megrim."
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
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
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 Lady Gregory
