bring to a head

He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.

Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.

Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.

Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.