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Examples
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Émile de Girardin left one with a sick-headache or exhausted by fatigue.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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Dear mother has gone up-stairs with a sick-headache!
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But be it as it may with the sick-headache, -- 't is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled, once for all, as we come up with certain goals of time.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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"None whatever; I have been suffering with a sick-headache all day."
Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch
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Yesterday I couldn't have afforded so much as a sick-headache.
Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith
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I have heard women say many times, "Nothing in the world will bring a sick-headache on so quickly as wearing a shoe that hurts my feet."
The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett
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So it very often happens that the man who has gone to bed an angel, feeling as if all sin were forever vanquished, and he himself immutably grounded in love, may wake the next morning with a sick-headache, and, if he be not careful, may scold about his breakfast like a miserable sinner.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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Immoderate use of strong coffee may produce other toxic effects, such as muscular tremors, nervous anxiety, sick-headache, palpitation, and various uncomfortable feelings in the cardiac region.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Americans think they're getting an impression of a country when they're only getting a sick-headache; and when they go home again, they can never remember whether Mont Blanc was a picture they saw in Paris or a
The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927
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It was all anemic and bloodless, and beseeching, and had the indefinable sick-headache, kimona, breakfast-in-bed quality in it, that repels the strong and healthy.
In Times Like These 1915
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