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quinsy

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quinsy

Abscess in the soft palate near one of the tonsils. It may occur in tonsillitis.


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The next day I came down with an attack of quinsy, which kept me in the house for nearly two weeks.
The wolf paused, turned its heavy forehead toward the dogs awkwardly, like a man suffering from the quinsy, and, still slightly swaying from side to side, gave a couple of leaps and with a swish of its tail disappeared into the skirt of the wood.
He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech.
 
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