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As late as 1874, Her Majesty’s Inspector for Schools described the area as “low-lying, aguish, and unhealthy, where no one would live if they could help it.”

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2018

The afternoon wore on, warm and sultry, and the atmosphere in those dank woods felt close, aguish, and unwholesome.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

His jokes were sermons, and his sermons jokes; But both were thrown away amongst the fens; For wit hath no great friend in aguish folks.

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The only house near it was the clerk's, and that not close to it: a poor, low, damp, aguish building, surrounded by grass as long as that in the neighbouring graveyard.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Some were attended with the Dysentery; and the Purging and Gripes were most severe on the Days of the aguish Paroxysms.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald