sick headache

“I got a sick headache,” she said, like it was my fault, and put her hand up to her forehead as she faded back into the room.

Like Middleton, he had physical symptoms, which he described as “a sick headache, a heavy dull feeling, until it is as if a band of steel were around my head.”

Granddaddy looked amused; Mother looked as if she had a sick headache but gamely held up her end of the conversation.

When she reached the narrow hallway she was reminded that her grandmother was home with a sick headache.

"It is only a sick headache!" he said finally, with bluntness which was meant for encouragement.