lurgies

Plans that are afoot can sometimes trip over those afeet, right enough, so as it was the first stop on the itinerary -- Brighton -- fell through, with a text message on my arrival at Paddington, talking of dreaded lurgies and quarantine situations.

Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 3: Brighton Go Boom Hal Duncan 2010

Plans that are afoot can sometimes trip over those afeet, right enough, so as it was the first stop on the itinerary -- Brighton -- fell through, with a text message on my arrival at Paddington, talking of dreaded lurgies and quarantine situations.

Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

And I hope all your bruises and the various lurgies clear up soon.

Back again. Spinningfishwife 2009

These approaches always seem to fend off the most virile of "con lurgies" and leave you feeling a lot better than if you hadn't taken the precautions.

Who put the cotton wool in my head? DAVID BISHOP 2007

Lest my reader should not be acquainted with this illness, at least under that name, here is the diagnosis of the lurgies as given by a very ordinary seaman to the ship's doctor.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

The coolie, drawn from his native village reluctant, like a periwinkle from its shell, is never a good starter, and when he finds himself at the end of a tow-rope or bowed beneath half a hundredweight of the sahib's trinkets, with a three-thousand-feet pass to attain in front of him, he is extremely apt to burst into tears -- idle tears -- or be overcome by a fit of that fell disease -- "the lurgies."

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne