gripings

The _causes_ of "gripings" or "gripes" may proceed either from the infant or from the mother.

Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844

Within we are devoured by the fierce gripings of our entrails, which hungry worms cease not to gnaw, and we undergo the corruption of the two Lazaruses, nor is there anyone to anoint us with balm of cedar, nor to cry to us who have been four days dead and already stink, Lazarus come forth!

The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

Besides, manna, by tie bulk, figure, texture, and motion of its parts, has a power to produce the sensations of sickness, and sometimes of acute pains or gripings in us.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

One by reason of those ascending vapours and gripings, rumbling beneath, will not be persuaded but that he hath a serpent in his guts, a viper, another frogs.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

You design, I doubt not, with your unmanly gripings, to hurt me, as you do: But again I ask, wherefore is it that I am to be thus treated by you?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Besides, manna, by tie bulk, figure, texture, and motion of its parts, has a power to produce the sensations of sickness, and sometimes of acute pains or gripings in us.

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

But at present, if men cannot swallow even a morsel, they buy whole volumes and attempt to devour them; and this is the reason why they vomit them up or suffer indigestion: and then come gripings, defluxes, and fevers.

The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

But the fact is, that the stomach of poor Sancho was of necessity not so delicate as that of his master, and so, before vomiting, he was seized with such gripings and retchings, and such sweats and faintness, that verily and truly be believed his last hour had come, and finding himself so racked and tormented he cursed the balsam and the thief that had given it to him.

Don Quixote 2002

Reprehensions are a food of hard digestion, and ought to be dressed on a fire of burning charity so well, that all harshness be taken off; otherwise, like unripe fruit, they will only produce gripings.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Accordingly they either vomit them up again, or suffer from indigestion, whence come gripings, fluxions, and fevers.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus circa 55-135 AD Epictetus