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

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 Castle, Egerton

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

"Mother has a megrim," she said; "she is in her chamber."

From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Benson, Robert Hugh

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