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Or sometimes this comparison is still more striking, when it is not merely words of the same family, but the very same word which has been twice adopted, at an earlier period and a later the earlier form will be thoroughly English, as 'palsy'; the later will be only a Greek or Latin word spelt with English letters, as 'paralysis. 'Dropsy, 'quinsy, 'megrim, 'squirrel, 'rickets, 'surgeon, 'tansy, 'dittany, 'daffodil, and many more words that one might name, have nothing of strangers or foreigners about them, have made themselves quite at home in English.
But you will be my Mercury my Leporello you will take of me a message to thees Mees Boston, that I am crushed, desolated, prostrate, and flabbergasted that I cannot arrive, for I have of that night to sit up with the grand-aunt of my brother-in-law, who has a quinsy to the death. It is sad." This was the first indication I had received of Miss Mannersley's advances.
She did not know of that consolatory Christmas-box in the cupboard. On Christmas Day Madam Liberality was speechless. The quinsy had progressed very rapidly. "It generally breaks the day I have to write on my slate," Madam Liberality wrote, looking up at her mother with piteous eyes.
There's old Doctor Hoskins of Bath, who attended poor dear Drum in the quinsy; and poor dear old Fred Hoskins, the gouty General: I remember him as thin as a lath in the year '84, and as active as a harlequin, and in love with me oh, how he was in love with me!" "You seem to have had a host of admirers in those days, Grandmamma?" said Lady Jane. "Hundreds, my dear, hundreds of thousands.
I find, on consultation of the Allonby records, that Sylvia Vernon died of a quinsy, in 1419, surviving Sir Robert by some three months.
As a consequence of venturing abroad upon the seventh instant without my heavy undergarments and likewise without galoshes, having been deceived into committing these indiscretions by a false and treacherous mildness of atmospheric conditions leading to the assumption that the vernal season had come or was impending a circumstance already described some paragraphs back I found myself upon the morn following to be the victim of a severe cold, complicated with quinsy or sore throat.
It rang through the house, and up into the bedroom. "Three cheers for Madam Liberality! Hip, hip, hooray!" The extremes of pleasure and of pain seemed to meet in Madam Liberality's little head. But overwhelming gratification got the upper hand, and, forgetting even her quinsy, she tried to speak, and after a brief struggle she said, with tolerable distinctness,
Each of these ends with the same phrase, and they differ only in regard to the particular maladies from which freedom is desired. One reads: "From wasting, from want of health, from the evil spirit of the ulcer, from the spreading quinsy of the gullet, from the violent ulcer, from the noxious ulcer, may the king of heaven preserve, may the king of earth preserve."
Sometimes a bag of hot ashes sprinkled with vinegar, and applied hot as can be borne, has cured a sore throat in one night. Persons that have been afflicted for years with repeated attacks of sore throat and quinsy, have been cured by bathing the throat, neck and ears with cold water every morning. The constant use of the shower bath is very important. Keep the feet warm.
I remember just after they was married Joseph was taken down with a quinsy sore throat, being always subject to them, and mother was over in the forenoon, and she was one that was always giving right hand and left, and she told Susan Ellen that was his wife to step over in the afternoon and she would give her some blackberry preserve for him; she had some that was nice and it was very healing.
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