"Headache" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had augmented in intensity, and I felt a slight headache, which I very naturally attributed to several glasses of champagne that we had drunk to the unknown gods ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Mystic-Humorous Stories • Various
... a common remedy for headache. Old handkerchiefs are excellent for this purpose. Fold in frayed edges, two or three thicknesses will be heavy enough, and have two, large enough to cover the forehead. Wring one out of ice water so that it will not drip, and put on the forehead. Keep the other on a piece of ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this—which I think is wisdom—that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... the necessities of life for the next month or two, hand over our mail and end our visit with a drink. Then the whistle blows, we scramble into the boat, and while my host waves his hat frantically and shouts "good-bye," the steamer gradually disappears from sight. My friend has "a bad headache" from all the excitement of the morning. I guide him carefully between the cases and barrels the steamer has brought, and deposit him in his bunk; then I retire to my own quarters to ...
— Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific • Felix Speiser
... observation sooner," continued the magistrate, "I might have spared myself a good deal of trouble and a headache which extends from my ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne
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