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A child who suffers from digestive disturbances, capricious appetite, abdominal pains, gas, vomiting, restlessness and irritability, itchy nose, grinding of the teeth, foul breath, headache, dizziness, cough, convulsions, anemia, peakedness may be suffering from roundworms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Part of his peakedness came from the fact that he had just been on a remarkable desert march and had his baptism of fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Observe, the object of their construction appears to be the attainment of the utmost possible peakedness in aspect, with the least possible danger to the inhabitants of the valleys.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John