quinsies

• Either dig out tunnels to make quinsies (snow houses), or build on top like the Eskimos. —  playful.productive.present
• Against fevers and quinsies, cold iron is a sovereign specific And for all his wounded heart, Earl William smiled at the girl's sauciness as he went slowly back to his chamber, taking, in spite of his earldom, pains to pass his mother's door on tiptoe CHAPTER VII THE DOUGLAS MUSTER The day of the great weapon-showing broke fair and clear after the storm of the night. —  The Black Douglas
• She furthermore maintains that the welsh-rarebits of which I partake invariably at the eleventh hour every night breed poisonous vapors and subtle megrims within my stomach, which humors, rising by their natural courses to my brain, do therein produce a fever that from within burneth up the fluids necessary to a healthy condition of the capillary growth upon the super-adjacent and exterior cranial integument Now, this very declaration of Miss Susan's gives me a potent argument in defence of my practices, for, being bald, would not a neglect of those means whereby warmth is engendered where it is needed result in colds, quinsies, asthmas, and a thousand other banes? —  The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
• "Four quinsies" -- well, strong emotion will do much for quinsies. —  Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
• He was a little man, and suffered a deal from the quinsies in the autumn. " —  A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son

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