Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A paroxysm of cold or shivering; a sharp attack of chilliness.

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Examples

  • He began to shake as with an ague-fit, till the gun fell from his hand with a splash.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • He began to shake as with an ague-fit, till the gun fell from his hand with a splash.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • I am all over as if cold water were poured down my back, or as if I had a strong ague-fit upon me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • For up started Mowbray, writhing and shaking himself as in an ague-fit; his hands stretched over his head — with thy hoy! hoy! hoy! yawning.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Partridge, and shook him more heartily than an ague-fit, or his own fears had ever done before.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Dudley was trembling now like a man in an ague-fit.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • The eyes of the prisoner followed the Indian's hand, as he pointed, with savage triumph, to the shrivelled scalps that had once crowned the heads of childhood and innocence, and then sank to the floor, while his whole frame shivered as with an ague-fit.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • After he had seated himself he shook like one in an ague-fit.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

  • "Speak!" said I, wondering to see her shaken as by an ague-fit.

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Hereupon I loosed him and, falling back on the hay, found myself all breathless and shaking as with an ague-fit.

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

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