Could he find these, he would be spared all brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

No weariness or brain-fag, however, was apparent in the speech at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

And even in the days of her poverty and obscurity, when her faculties were sharpened into proper appreciation by privation, those congested windows teeming with jewels, with wearing apparel, with all things immoderately, set up a sort of mental dyspepsia that was distressing, and she was glad to turn away to relieve the consequent brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

"You think, then, it's a case of brain-fag -- nothing more?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference

It was his mind struggling to equilibrium after four years of brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The River's End] Reference

On the instant, out of the profound of my brain-fag, I knew what I wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

No weariness or brain-fag, however, was apparent in the speech at Columbus, Ohio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I know Him]

I did suffer from brain-fag on occasion, but alcohol never suggested itself as an ameliorative.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

He, himself, did not know how to be idle; yet he was painfully conscious of overwork and brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cavour]

And when I turned in my last examination paper I was in full possession of a splendid case of brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

To the patient it is a satisfying diagnosis and satisfactory explanation in one; to the doctor, a great saving of brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preventable Diseases] Reference

I'm Kiddest, of course; that's easy enough; but it would save the Prince lots of trouble and brain-fag if he only knew which was.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend the Chauffeur] Reference

I told Dinky-Dunk if we'd ever put a chameleon on that shack-wall he'd have died of brain-fag trying to make good on the color-schemes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Wife] Reference

If you want to escape brain-fag and still have as good as the best, if not better, plant Gradus (or Prosperity) for early and second early.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use] Reference

Granted my prodigious brain-fag, nevertheless, had I never drunk in the past, the thought would never have entered my mind to get drunk now.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

"You must relax a little when you are away from the office, or you'll have -- oh, brain-fag, or nervous prostration, or some such dreadful thing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Making People Happy] Reference

But still later, in the slough of brain-fag and intellectual weariness, I was to remember and know the craving for the anodyne that resides in alcohol.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

His nervous twitchings disappeared, his vitality improved, the brain-fag gradually ceased; and when he left, eighteen months later, he was fairly normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth and Sex] Reference

The best place to wear a chest-protector is on the soles of the feet, and poulticing the chest for pneumonia is about as effective as shampooing the scalp for brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preventable Diseases] Reference

They are bred of brain-fag, no doubt; yet, whatever be their lineage, "said Charteris, happily," they render glum discussion and platitudinous moralizing quite out of the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Certain Hour] Reference

Otherwise I predict all sorts of complications for you -- melancholia, brain-fag, bankruptcy -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories] Reference

A glimpse of the celebrated Yosemite Falls and the surrounding scenery, just as the sun broke through the clouds; and there was revealed a picture of such rare beauty and marvelous picturesqueness that every particle of fatigue, brain-fag, and muscle weariness departed in an instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

I don't want to suffer from brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

The first time it had been because of brain-fag.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

"All our trouble and brain-fag gone for nothing.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns] Reference

"You've got brain-fag to-night, Hildreth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grafters] Reference