megrim

Example Sentences

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Even if he has no special craze or megrim, and does not decide offhand that a man is hopeless because he calls Charles the Great Charlemagne, or vice vers�, he is constantly out of focus.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

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

The man came, prescribed for a megrim, and Alexander did not call him again; nor did he mention his mother's condition to the rest of the family.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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 Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

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 Burton, Richard