"He phoned in to say he'd got quinsy," said Rydberg. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
We are also informed that quinsy is the hardest death of all. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Dogs suffer from three diseases; rabies, quinsy, and sore feet. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
By learned men for the most part it is rendered angina, the quinsy. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
I have been busy bursting a bad quinsy with inhalers and fomentations. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915] Reference
“One may, indeed, Yakov Petrovitch, very easily get quinsy,” our hero pronounced after a brief silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Double] Reference
In answer to a call from Joliet, Illinois, we went to that place and anointed a brother who was very sick with the quinsy. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
'The woman with quinsy, who lodged with Aristion: her complaint began in the tongue; voice inarticulate; tongue red and parched. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Later on Mary and I called upon Alice, the Eskimo girl, who lives with her mother, near the hotel, and who is suffering with quinsy. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
"A quinsy, also known as a peritonsillar abscess, is an abscess between the back of the tonsil and the adjoining wall of the throat". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: NEWS IN ANCIENT GREEK.] Reference
It is a good symptom when swelling on the outside of the neck seizes a person very ill of quinsy, for the disease is turned outwardly. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
Miss L. 's throat is better, and she is out of her room again, after a siege of severe suffering with quinsy, which caused a gathering. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
He found Mr. Gresham actually suffocating from a quinsy. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 07] Reference
Nobody ever gets shingles or quinsy, or mumps in a novel. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Castlehaggard's quinsy always comes on when there is dinner at the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
"I once had to lie in bed two days with a quinsy, and I hated it.". From Wordnik.com. [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference
When he had quinsy two years ago, I thought he had come to the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening of Helena Richie] Reference
A string of gold beads worn on the neck will cure or prevent quinsy. From Wordnik.com. [Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk] Reference
"What a pity he didn't die of a quinsy instead of breaking his neck!". From Wordnik.com. [A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son] Reference
It's all come down to a touch of sore throat, a little sort of quinsy. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
I caught a quinsy walking up and down Avonmouth pier before I saw my opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference
Whereupon, the old croakers, each with a quinsy, sang thus in cracked strains. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
I have given thee the quinsy; that ungracious tongue shall preach no more false doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference
A string of gold beads is still held to be a preventive of quinsy, sore throats, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk] Reference
Walpole, shortly after the date of this letter, when he was laid up with a quinsy at Reggio. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
In a twinkling it had blown a quinsy into his throat, and he reached home unable to utter a word. From Wordnik.com. [Best Russian Short Stories] Reference
I tell you I wished from my heart at that moment that it was me that had had the quinsy instead of. From Wordnik.com. [In Homespun] Reference
He and Bert, his wife, had had one child, a girl, which had died of quinsy, and they had never had another. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
Then once more shall we think you would swallow no golden pill, nor suffer your throat to be ulcerated by a silver quinsy. '. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3] Reference
But the wits, turning the matter to ridicule, said that certainly the orator had been seized that night with no other than a silver quinsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference
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