megrim
Example Sentences
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In a few minutes he found that he was a little dizzy, and, supposing this megrim to be occasioned by the heat of the room, he took another draught of water to recover himself.
From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
"Mr. Manners was in Derby, and Mrs. Manners had a megrim."
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
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
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 John Kendrick Bangs
