Usage examples (8)

• The reason Dennis Hanks gives for this removal was a disease called the "milk-sick."
• Sparrow were both seized with a terrible disease known to the settlers as the "milk-sick" because it attacked the cattle.
• For a week the milk-sick fever had raged furiously, and in the few hours free from delirium she had been racked with omnipresent pain and deadly sickness.
• In the autumn of 1818 the little community of Pigeon Creek was almost exterminated by a frightful pestilence called the milk-sickness, or, in the dialect of the country, "the...