"Backache" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... guess badly. But he had a complete backache from mere longing, and the backache is just as bad for a Tree as the ...
— Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories - The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 • Various
... the midsummer bonfire. The people judged of the height to which the flax would grow in the year by the height to which the flames of the bonfire rose; and whoever leaped over the burning pile was sure not to suffer from backache in reaping the corn at harvest. But it was especially the practice for lovers to spring over the fire hand in hand, and the way in which each couple made the leap was the subject of many a jest and many a superstition. ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... you will meet a number of women who are nervous, which means they have not control of their nerves, but let them run away with them. Sometimes this is shown in palpitation of the heart, headache, backache, and many other disorders. There may be a tendency to cry at trivial things, or a feeling of having "the blues." The cause usually can be found in uncongenial surroundings or occupation, loss of friends, or real or fancied troubles. Whatever ...
— Confidences - Talks With a Young Girl Concerning Herself • Edith B. Lowry
... Tree had a backache from mere longing, and the backache is just as bad for a tree as the ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
... to put it, you mug. Bring in our chippendale chair. Would you like a bite of something? None of your damned lawdeedaw airs here. The rich of a rasher fried with a herring? Sure? So much the better. We have nothing in the house but backache pills. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce |
