colick

"Ef'n you don 'min', Ole Miss, Paisley, she done got de colick f'om a hull pa'cel er green apples," and "Abram he's des a-shakin 'wid a chill en he say he cyarn go ter de co'n field."

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Bile der milk well 'n' d'lute down right, 'n' a chile like dat ain't gwine to have no colick.

In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

And some think it wuz the hardness between 'em and some think it wuz the gripin 'of the colick when he made his will, anyway he willed Serepta away, boy or girl whichever it wuz, to his brother up on the Canada line.

Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

Her father and mother had some difficulty and he wuz took down with billerous colick, voylent four weeks before Serepta wuz born.

Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

For they think that if the King of the Rain at 'anything that might cause the colick, or like humor or distemper, the weather will thereafter be stormy and tempestuous; but so long as the King of the Rain fares well and retains his health, so long will the weather over their island of Boo Parry be clear and prosperous.

The Great Taboo Grant Allen 1873

Thus he lived in high reputation; till in his seventy-sixth year he was seized with a colick, which, after having tortured him about a week, put an end to his life at Norwich, on his birthday, October 19, MDCLXXXII.

Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

"Thou mettest anon," replied his daughter, "Attaf thy son-in-law in the Bazar and didst tell him that my mother was sore afflicted with a colick."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

He soon fell into his old distemper, an habitual colick, and languished, though with many intervals of ease and cheerfulness, till a violent fit, at last, seized him, and hurried him to the grave, as Arbuthnot reported, with more precipitance than he had ever known.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

To hear some of those worthy reasoners talking of credit, that she is so nice, so squeamish, so capricious; you would think they were describing a lady troubled with vapours or the colick, to be only removed by a course of steel, and swallowing a bullet.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706

It is evident that Aristotle transgressed the rule of his own ethicks; [I. 70] the stoicks, that condemn passion, and command a man to laugh in Phalaris's [I. 71] bull, could not endure without a groan a fit of the stone or colick.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643