brain-fag

And when I turned in my last examination paper I was in full possession of a splendid case of brain-fag.

Chapter 22 2010

I did suffer from brain-fag on occasion, but alcohol never suggested itself as an ameliorative.

Chapter 26 2010

But still later, in the slough of brain-fag and intellectual weariness, I was to remember and know the craving for the anodyne that resides in alcohol.

Chapter 23 2010

And when I turned in my last examination paper I was in full possession of a splendid case of brain-fag.

THE BRAIN MERCHANT 2010

Granted my prodigious brain-fag, nevertheless, had I never drunk in the past, the thought would never have entered my mind to get drunk now.

Chapter 22 2010

Could he find these, he would be spared all brain-fag.

Ultima Thule 2003

And even in the days of her poverty and obscurity, when her faculties were sharpened into proper appreciation by privation, those congested windows teeming with jewels, with wearing apparel, with all things immoderately, set up a sort of mental dyspepsia that was distressing, and she was glad to turn away to relieve the consequent brain-fag.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

Tabs with brain-fag; Mechanical Transporters in spurs and stocks, jam merchants in revolvers and bowie-knives, Military Police festooned with _pickelhaubes_, and here and there a furtive fighting man who had got away by mistake, and would be recalled as soon as he landed.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Various

No weariness or brain-fag, however, was apparent in the speech at

Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Joseph P. Tumulty

If you want to escape brain-fag and still have as good as the best, if not better, plant Gradus (or Prosperity) for early and second early;

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930