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Перевод: ague

[существительное]
малярия ; лихорадка ; приступ лихорадки; озноб ; лихорадочный озноб; приступ дрожи

Тезаурус:

1. "As bad as an Essex Ague" was a common expression; and in the 1870s the garrison at Tilbury Fort was changed every six months because of the prevalence of malaria.
2. On the Somerset Levels, inundated by heavy floods in 1872 and 1873, a report described how "Ague set in early in the spring and is now very prevalent among the poorer families who are badly fed and clothed."
3. The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings, who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men.
4. Jesuit missionaries had also taken it to Rome, from where an Apothecary named Robert Talbot had obtained medicine to cure Charles II of ague.
5. "Ague" was malaria, meaning literally "bad air", the marshy miasma which, until the discovery of the malarial mosquito in 1880, was believed to be the main cause of the disease.
6. Canna's Stone at Llangan in Carmarthenshire was said to cure ague.
7. Christian pilgrims always made sure to take a sample home with them, and then "when anyone falls sick of a quartan or tertian ague or some such fever, they give him a little of this earth to drink.
8. Richard now pressed on to Salerno, where he wanted to discuss a recurrent ague with the city's famous doctors.
9. She stuck her chin in the air and glared - underneath shaking as if she had an ague.
10. Ah, well, at least we shall have wheat and mutton instead, and no more typhus and ague; and, it is to be hoped, no more brandy-drinking and opium-eating; and children will live and not die.
11. He was subject to attacks of ague for many years, and memories of that October night came to embody for him his sense of exile from his family, and his anger at his mother's demanding and erratic love.
12. His health was poor, for he suffered constantly from a malarial type disease, quartan ague, which left him feverish and weak.
13. James I was declared by his contemporaries to have died of it, and his victim Sir Walter Ralegh, awaiting execution in the Tower, prayed that he would not be seized by a fit of ague on the scaffold, lest his enemies should proclaim that he had met his death shivering with fear.