Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Angina pectoris. See angina.

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Examples

  • The last block of all on which the artist was engaged was one to be called "An Afternoon on the Flags;" it represented a complimentary dog-fancier comparing the points of beauty in a dog with those of the lady before him, but it was still unfinished when he fell back in his bed, dead from the fatal breast-pang.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

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