ear-ache

I must send you a twinge of a tooth-ache, or of an ear-ache, something to make you descend, in a decent manner, to the ordinary feelings of mortality; or I must go myself, and hammer one of your toes, if only to prevent your becoming too extravagantly happy.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

Ear ache: Roll up a newspaper into a cone-shape and light the end on fire to cure an inner ear-ache (not for ear infections).

Esther J. Cepeda: Add This Health Care Solution to the Debate: Mexican and Latin American Folk Remedies for the Ultimate Do-It-Yourselfer 2009

After a day's snorkelling I had a touch of ear-ache, so I popped along to the nurse's office to ask if she had any medication.

Daimnation!: Der Kommunismus 2008

We went to bed with mighty uncertain feelings; far more than on shipboard, where you have only drowning ahead — whereas here you have a smash of beams, a shower of sheet-iron, and a blind race in the dark and through a whirlwind for the shelter of an unfinished stable — and my wife with ear-ache!

Vailima Letters 2005

Once as a child he had had an ear-ache - he had never felt pain like it before or since - and as he lay in bed with his throbbing head on a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel she had stroked his hair and said,

Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

In France the rustics sometimes purge themselves with a dose of from six to twelve grains of the dried Wood Spurge: and its juice is used in this country as an application to destroy warts; also, to be rubbed in behind the ear for ear-ache, or face-ache.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

A small bell, said to have belonged to St. Pol, is kept in the church, and on the day of the _Pardon_ of Léon (the chief fête of the year) is carried up and down the nave and rung vigorously over the heads of the faithful to preserve them from headache and ear-ache.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Various

I had a terrible time with the ear-ache last night; my wife got up and drapt a few draps of walnut sap into it, and that relieved it some; but I didn't get a wink of sleep till nearly daylight.

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

It is easy to talk of carnivorous animals and beasts of prey; but does such a man, who lays waste a whole civilized party of beings by prosing, reflect upon the joy he spoils and the misery he creates in the course of his life, and that any one who listens to him through politeness would prefer toothache or ear-ache to his conversation?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

If employed as a poultice for ear-ache, or broken chilblains, the Onion should be roasted, so as to [212] modify its acrid oil.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie