ague

• He quaked as if he had the ague, but it wasn't the ague--it was fear, plain wild limitless fear that was tying the skulker's guts in knots RENNY'S thunder brought no response. —  135 - The Three Devils
• Century upon century, hour after desperate hour, parents watched helplessly as their children succumbed to maladies whose very names-ague, apoplexy, flux, dropsy, commotion, consumption-spoke of the misty ignorance that was a definitive sentence. —  WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
• I have been suffering these four days with the ague, and everything to do. —  A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
• Peruvian bark which had quinine as its alkaloid had been introduced as a proven cure for the ague, a fever with chills usually due to malaria, in 1653. —  Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.
• Its position was most insalubrious, for the marshy swamps commenced at the very base of hills, and thus as it were encircled the savannahs with a belt of miasma The ague, which is usually accompanied by fever, is of a kind very difficult to shake off, gradually weakening the sufferer till he sinks under its influence; the natives themselves are by no means free from its strokes, to which attacks every stranger who remains for many days in the vicinity of the marshes is liable. —  A Peep into Toorkisthhan

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