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  • And I remember most distinctly suffering from a stomach-ache.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • And instead of leaving a legacy, as with stone statues of old, our generation of humanity is to leave behind nothing but a mess to clean up after and a sugary stomach-ache for those that follow?

    Et Tu, O-Town? 2010

  • I like how the girl with the stomach-ache has stump-legs.

    Miss Switzerland: Half Itty Car Condensed Cosmo7 2009

  • We passed a dead Hun every thirty yards, sprawled in the water, hanging in the bushes, some spread wide as if reaching for salvation, others curled about their wounds, like little boys with stomach-ache.

    Poppies and Ghosts « A Fly in Amber 2007

  • It was May 31st and she had a terrible stomach-ache all day, but in between the griping stomach pains, she spent the day washing baby clothes, which had arrived in a package from Holland, sent by her own dear mother.

    Birth Story Belinda 2009

  • Lenin always looked as if he was suffering from a monumental stomach-ache.

    Sound Politics: Contacts Needed 2006

  • But stomach-ache and snifflies and general malaise for a couple of days level hard.

    It’s snowing and Steve Gerber is Dead. | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Giles has eaten fourteen ices: he will have a dreadful stomach-ache tomorrow.

    Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

  • And charmingly she looked, with all the disadvantages of a three-hours violent stomach-ache β€” (for Dorcas told me that she had been really ill) β€” no rest, and eyes red and swelled with weeping.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • It is a terrible place for stomach-ache, owing to the mountain water.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

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