Ague

Sir Andrew Ague-cheek was the cowardly and simple drinking companion of Sir Toby in Shakespeares play Twelfth

Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007

Thoughts and the Agitation of my Mind on this Occasion; for my Interior labour'd as it were under a Fever and Ague, burning with an irresistible

Exilius 2008

Ague and enteric fever ran through the camps as summer came in.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Ague and enteric fever ran through the camps as summer came in.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Ague will be rejuvenated, woman with her ridiculous white bur-den will reach by one step sublime incubation, the manewanting human lioness with her dishorned discipular manram will lie down together publicly flank upon fleece.

Finnegans Wake 2006

For they were partly perswaded, that such wanton Ague fits of Love, were fit for none but youthfull apprehensions, as best agreeing with their chearefull complexion.

The Decameron 2004

Ague, if the expected had happened, should have gripped and shaken me until my teeth rattled; and after alternations of raging fever and arctic cold, I ought to have gone to my long home with the fearful shapes of delirium yelling in my ears.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

I could Quarrell with the climate, but surely if it is subject to the Ague, there is a fever fit as well as the cold one.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 9 December 1781 1973

And Death laughed, and took a cup, and dipped it into a pool of water, and out of the cup rose Ague.

The Young King 1962

The Ship laboured under the Weight of her Guns which were all out ready for Use, she shuddered and shivered like a Man in an Ague, she darted from Side to Side and pitched forward with such Velocity, that it was a very dangerous Operation to get the

John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961