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Headachy   Listen
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Headachy  adj.  Afflicted with headache. (Colloq.)






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"Headachy" Quotes from Famous Books



... trifle headachy," she answered, smiling up at him, "but I think a cup of coffee and a drive with my husband in the sweet ...
— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley

... quarter to nine she ventured to say, ever so casually: "I feel sort of headachy. I think I'll run down and sit on the steps again and ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis

... unto me. I was sick abed and got up to write to Mr. P., not wanting him to know I was sick, and one of the children came in and I snatched him up in my lap to hug and kiss a little, and he, of course, hit the pen and upset the inkstand and burst out crying at my dismay. Then might have been seen a headachy woman catching the apoplexy by leaning out of the window and scrubbing paint, sacrificing all her nice rags in the process, and dreadfully mortified into the bargain.... Yesterday we were all caught in a pouring rain when several miles from home on the side of the mountain, ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss

... who habitually wakes sodden, headachy, and a little stupid, and who needs a cup of strong coffee and various stimulating condiments to coax his bodily system into something like fair working order, does not suppose he is out of health. He says, "Very well, I ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... speeches, congratulations, and refreshments, and after that Mr. Jones said, 'These are very delightful functions, no doubt; but they are a little long, and somehow they always make me very hot and tired and headachy. What do you ladies say to taking a run out into the country for a couple of hours, and getting home just in time for dinner? You can't dress to-night, thank goodness, and so you can't expect ...
— A City Schoolgirl - And Her Friends • May Baldwin

... not accustomed to it. Mrs. Carradyne told Hubert the best place for him was bed. Not a bit of it, the boy answered: he should go out on the terrace at twelve o'clock; the chimes would be fine, heard out there. He fell asleep almost as he spoke; presently he woke up, feeling headachy, cross and stupid, and of his own ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 • Various



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