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How to use ague in a sentence

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Patent medicine ads for ague tonics and liver pills filled the back pages of local agricultural publications.
That August, however, Marvell died in his house in Great Russell Street from medical treatment prescribed for a tertian ague.
In total 573 men were diagnosed with ague, intermittent, remittent, bilious, congestive, and unclassified fevers at Helena.
Fishing and fowling remained characteristic occupations, and ague, or fen fever, was prevalent.
The Bishop was seized with a quartan ague and began to shake.
He also advocated that specific remedies could be applied to each such disease, his favourite example being the prescription of Peruvian bark for intermittent fever or ague.
Second, the political ague which afflicted the Polish electorate in the run-up to the parliamentary elections has since been all but cured.
Although he used the term ague, true malaria cannot necessarily be inferred because ague included any number of short-lived illnesses with chills and fever.
Look at us — broomstick bodies, yellow with ague, some of us barely bones enough to hang our clothing on.
There'd be no ague or calenture, no tick disease or cholera, no canker or malaria.
On the 15th of August thirteen ounces of blood were drawn from him and the tertian ague supervened.
In other countries like e.g. Spain there is only a v ague legislation which causes a lack of co-ordination between the responsible authorities and which av oids ef f ectiv e projects to solv e problems.
A light feveret, or an old quartan ague, is not a sufficient excuse for non-appearance.
In early 1625, James was plagued by severe attacks of arthritis, gout, and fainting fits, and fell seriously ill in March with tertian ague and then suffered a stroke.
He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.
And although we feele it not, it is not to bee doubted, if a continuall ague may in the end suppresse our mind, a tertian will also breed some alteration in it.
Ague was known to be related to mosquito bites, and was treated with Peruvian bark.
Examples from Classical Literature
He shivered as one with an ague and shook off the deadly influence of the idea.
She visited the tanked one, found her in a cold room after it, shivering like ague, and her teeth chattering.
The hills of Argolis to the north were already getting dim and veiled, and losing themselves in an ague of heat.
He seemed to be in the last extremity of fright, with a face the color of clay and his limbs all ashake as one who hath an ague.
Clearly his fears had been realised, and he had had an attack of the Persian ague.
There is scarcely any malignant spirit, from a loup-garou to an ague, which cannot be found in the deserts of Aquitaine.
He was yellow with fever, and the hand that filled the briar pipe shook with ague.
I confess I felt a touch of nausea, but nothing compared with the priest, whose teeth began to chitter in an ague of horror.
The master himself was not exempt and once we find him chronicling that he went a-hunting and caught a fox and the ague.
I am very bad with the ague, as people must be in the habit of saying in these fenny districts.
The plebs plebis think that the cause is wind or flatus, and that they get rid of the ague by belching.
The climate is tropical, and malaria, with its fever and ague, is prevalent.
And the mahout passed into his hut with a shiver that told of the coming ague.
I went over to Pond's and he read that she had a fine fat boy on the 30th ult., but she was very sick with ague and mumps.
Ste. This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who hath got, as I take it, an ague.
I was but a fortnight in the hospital, the disease being only the fever and ague.
Valeriola made use of the same means, with the like success, in a quartan ague.
Heathcliff, having stared his son into an ague of confusion, uttered a scornful laugh.
And as for Arthur, he fell to trembling, and finally was shaken with doubt as with an ague.
The heat rapidly increased, and once again I looked up, shuddering as with a fit of the ague.
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