Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Frontal neuralgia.
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Examples
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I got very thin and weak, and had a curious disease known (I have since heard) as brow-ague.
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I got very thin and weak, and had a curious disease known (I have since heard) as brow-ague.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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I was daft, with my head out of the window, in an awful draught, at the serious risk of brow-ague, not to speak of coal-smuts, which are horrid if ye get them in your eye.
We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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The resignation of all lingering hope of escape, and the effort to be contented, cost him more than even his original breaking in; and Mr. Kendal one day found him sitting in his little office parlour unable to think or to speak under a terrible visitation of his autumnal tormentor, brow-ague.
The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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