Christopher was suffering from ague. From LearnThat.org.
The brother who has been suffering from ague is probably her elder brother John. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference
He went off two weeks before with blue ague, which is a mild sort of disease. From Wordnik.com. [They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ...] Reference
Malaria was originally called ague or marsh fever because it emanated from warm-weather swamps. From Wordnik.com. [A Convenient Untruth] Reference
"The dampness of the valley, at this hour, is not altogether safe; the ague is a sore enemy to romance; beware of it.". From Wordnik.com. [Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.] Reference
I always get "ague" for "malarial fever" on crossword puzzles, so that's an easy one. From Wordnik.com. [A Cup of Ague*] Reference
I was in a kind of ague of terror; it seemed to me I had seen something infernal. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Pickering] Reference
This kind of ague appears most in moist cold autumns, and in cold countries replete with marshes. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Annie has had a touch of Algoa Bay fever, a mild kind of ague, but no sign of chest disease, or even delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Cape] Reference
Good as a remedy for the chills or fever and ague. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
I shook myself like one stricken by the shaking ague. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Myla heard their coming and trembled as with an ague. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
Till he e'en got the ague, still nought could prevail. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
A second impulse gave him the power of healing ague, and a third. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
So they sent for me, and Veil told me how to get rid of the ague. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
Abracadabra amulet was supposed to be especially efficacious in ague. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Another charm for ague was only effective when said up the chimney on. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
A very certain and effectual remedy for the ague or intermittent fever. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
I shook from head to foot, as if I had had the most violent fit of the ague. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
On my way I met a woman shivering in an ague chill, thinly clad, and weeping. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
I have known consumption to be cured with the same "ague cure" on the plains. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
And the mahout passed into his hut with a shiver that told of the coming ague. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
His disease was only an ague, common to the time of year and to the new country. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
I managed to keep along very well until 1858, when I was attacked by fever and ague. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
This very ague chanced to be the "turning point" I was looking for and is herewith related. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
There had been a hard winter, and after it the poor woman had suffered from fever and ague. From Wordnik.com. [The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations] Reference
When Gordon returned to Gondokoro, he found nearly all his own staff ill with fever and ague. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
Niles told him that he had a farm hand, but, he added, "he won't go, because he has the ague.". From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
The ague returned no more; and Holt, having remained in the house a week, called for his bill. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
As he had a few fits of the ague some weeks previously, I supposed it was a return of that disease. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Many of our men, to this day, have reminders of the Yazoo in ague, fevers, and diseases of the bowels. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
And without further difficulty we reached the group of sufferers, who were shivering as if in an ague fit. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
In a moment more Le Prun entered, trembling like a man in an ague, his face livid and covered with a cold sweat. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Mr. Townsend advanced, seized the letter, and his face was ashen as he exclaimed, while trembling like one with ague. From Wordnik.com. [Two Wonderful Detectives Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill] Reference
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