He began to shake as with an ague-fit, till the gun fell from his hand with a splash. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I am all over as if cold water were poured down my back, or as if I had a strong ague-fit upon me. ❋ Unknown (2006)
For up started Mowbray, writhing and shaking himself as in an ague-fit; his hands stretched over his head — with thy hoy! hoy! hoy! yawning. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Partridge, and shook him more heartily than an ague-fit, or his own fears had ever done before. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Dudley was trembling now like a man in an ague-fit. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The eyes of the prisoner followed the Indian's hand, as he pointed, with savage triumph, to the shrivelled scalps that had once crowned the heads of childhood and innocence, and then sank to the floor, while his whole frame shivered as with an ague-fit. ❋ Robert M. Bird (N/A)
After he had seated himself he shook like one in an ague-fit. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Speak!" said I, wondering to see her shaken as by an ague-fit. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Hereupon I loosed him and, falling back on the hay, found myself all breathless and shaking as with an ague-fit. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
He was seized with the deepest sleep and colliquative sweats, and in the short space of twenty-four hours from the time of the ague-fit, he died comatose. ❋ Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 (1905)
By the doctor's orders, the patient was covered up close with blankets, say rather, was buried under them; and composed himself to sleep and sweat, so that he might escape the cold shivers which are wont to accompany the onset of the ague-fit. ❋ Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 (1905)
If only she could reach there before this labouring anguish burst from her breast to her lips -- if only she could feel the hold of Gerty's arms while she shook in the ague-fit of fear that was coming upon her! ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
Wyant seconded her well, after a moment's ague-fit of fear. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
And as he terminated this envenomed monologue the Cardinal thrust the fatal paper into his breast, and clasped his hands convulsively together; his dim eyes flashed fire, his thin lips quivered, his pale countenance became livid, and the storm of concentrated passion shook his frail form as with an ague-fit. ❋ Pardoe, Julia (1890)
In one locality the train runs through a series of gorges the sides of which are covered with disintegrated rock, heaped up in infinite confusion, as if an awful ague-fit had seized the hills, and shaken them until their ledges had been broken into a million boulders. ❋ Unknown (1890)
I caught one glimpse of a mass of tissue paper, and then she put the cover on again, and for a good half hour sat crouching down beside it, shuddering like one in an ague-fit. ❋ Anna Katharine Green (1890)
