| 单词 | valetudinarian |
| 例句 | Paranoid about his health, this classic valetudinarian is really scared of dying alone and unloved. Comedy for hypochondriacs: It's A Noise Within's 'The Imaginary Invalid' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z “He’s a valetudinarian as opposed to a hypochondriac, who is entirely concerned with their own health — he’s obsessively concerned with everybody else’s,” Nighy said in an interview. How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Emma’? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z I would have made supper, but Federico was even more fussy and valetudinarian than your average Italian man, and insisted on making himself risotto bianco with only a single leaf of basil to flavour it. Federico Fellini wanted to cast me in Casanova. We ended up in bed together 2010-04-11T20:45:00Z “There’s a class-based idea that anything too valetudinarian, too conspicuously hygienic, is middle-class,” he said, using a long word for being unduly anxious about one’s health. After Months of Debate, England Requires Face Masks for Shoppers 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Andy from Broadstairs, potentially impressed by the heft of , writes: "What does valetudinarians mean Will? have you been at the thesaurus again?" The Loop: Compassion and warmth 2013-11-08T16:53:39Z I took up my abode at a Maison de Sante; not that I was a valetudinarian,—but because I there found some one to whom I could whisper, "How sweet is solitude!" The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Moreover, in the effects of watering-places on the invalid or valetudinarian, we must not forget the powerful influence of change of air and habit, the invigorating stimulus of hope, and the diversion from former occupations. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z While the gentle showers of office and pensions were descending on parched politicians, Pitt wended his valetudinarian way, as usual, to Bath. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Madmen, valetudinarians, epileptics, are regarded almost everywhere as the favourites of Heaven. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z But I should hardly have ventured," he went on, "to trespass upon you at this untimely season merely out of deference to my own valetudinarian instincts. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z This valetudinarian majority should make the youngest of us pause and reflect. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z M. d'Infreville, though he should be in his prime, is a valetudinarian, because, in his youth, he plunged into all sorts of excesses. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z Or they live the years when men should be still in their prime—valetudinarian and hypochondriac. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z And so, for the present, I conclude, with a quotation from Shakspeare, who was, among other things, evidently a valetudinarian, and finish these papers by saying, "The tenor of them doth but signify" "My Health." Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 62, January 20, 1872 2011-10-07T02:00:23.543Z How many actual valetudinarians have outlived all their robust contemporaries, and attained the utmost verge of human life, without ever having enjoyed what is usually called high health. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z Further round the Crescent, Mrs. Choke let furnished apartments to valetudinarian bachelors, and in one of the brightest of these, Mr. Francis Vernon sat before his looking glass contemplatively combing his wig. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z There are those who declare that the valetudinarian life, "half dead and alive," which even Plato satirized nearly 2,500 years ago, ever renews the question as to whether life is worth living or not. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z In truth, when it comes to such a question as this, I confess to putting more faith in the verdict of healthy children than in the unanimous theories and groans of whole congresses of valetudinarians. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z Old, used up, valetudinarian, he only revived after a sentence of death. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z But the air of this country, with its alternations of moisture and dry frost, although excellent for a healthy person, is very trying to a valetudinarian. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z The new ministry, under the nominal headship of the valetudinarian duke of Portland, included Perceval as chancellor of the exchequer, Canning as foreign secretary and Castlereagh as secretary for war and the colonies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z It is interesting to note what an excellent tonic effect, in younger people always, in older people very often, the change of life has on these chronic valetudinarians. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Here were discovered the foundations of the celebrated Asclepieum, together with several inscriptions and a great number of votive reliefs offered by grateful invalids and valetudinarians to the god of healing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Whether it was “an age of valetudinarians,” as has been said, may be doubtful; but it was an age eagerly in quest of the health which so often comes from the quiet mind. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Since then, though it still attracts large numbers of visitors, it has become the resort of valetudinarians chiefly. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Why should he lie here and grow rusty? why should he, in his best years, voluntarily withdraw himself from life and play the valetudinarian before his time? In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II Never very robust, his health gradually became weaker and ultimately he was reduced to the condition of a valetudinarian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" In the vain hope of offspring Charles sacrificed his niece, Christina of Denmark, to the valetudinarian duke. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Tumps, ancient valetudinarian, softened by age; Togo, rheumatic, but steeped in his deeply racial, his Oriental indifferentism—they are the inheritors of that august tradition, and they become it worthily. The Book of Susan A Novel Imploring faces were turned towards him: the opening of the window was plainly a matter of life and death to that valetudinarian assembly. Years of Plenty She ceased, for Jetty, in the midst of the confession, hopped down to take a valetudinarian peck at his yellow seeds. Fairfax and His Pride Dr. Howe, with all his energy of body and of mind, was somewhat of a valetudinarian. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Does he not lie there as a perpetual lesson of despair, and type of bedrid valetudinarian impotence? A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time The demon was transformed into a quiet, self-possessed man, that looked like a monk, a trifle valetudinarian at that. Eden An Episode The strong man was taken, and the suffering valetudinarian found himself charged with those last duties which he was so soon to need at the hands of others. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 I am tempted to call myself a valetudinarian. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) Old and gouty, we are confined to our chair; and occasionally, during an hour of rainless sunshine, are wheeled by female hands along the gravel-walks of our Policy, an unrepining and philosophical valetudinarian. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Whereas many great families are insensibly fallen off from the athletic constitution of their progenitors, and are dwindled away into a pale, sickly, spindle-legged, generation of valetudinarians. The Tatler, Volume 3 It was clear to every eye that Miss Walladmor was not one of those persons who surrender themselves unresisting victims to dejection, and sink without a struggle into premature valetudinarians. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Physically he was far from strong, and almost the first comment made by Canadians on him was that their new governor-general came to them a valetudinarian. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 “The bore is gone, the valetudinarian has made his exit,” exclaimed Master Thompson, rather excited. Talkers With Illustrations Five minutes after saying which the doctor's gig was doing its best to arrive in time to prevent that valetudinarian swallowing five grains of calomel, or something of the sort, on his own responsibility. When Ghost Meets Ghost Riding with the ancients was, therefore, only an exercise for the healthy and the robust; a horse without stirrups was a formidable animal for a valetudinarian. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors There was true masculine vigour underlying Cowper's jeremiads; but it was natural that many people should only see in him an amiable valetudinarian, not qualified for a censorship of statesmen and226 men of the world. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) "Come along, doctor," exclaimed the valetudinarian, "you are just in time to taste this bottle of Madeira; it is the first of a pipe that has just been broached." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. “Is Round gone, then?” asked Mr. Burr, a young man who had left the room soon after he came in, having been annoyed with his valetudinarian twaddle. Talkers With Illustrations Funds had run low, and the two valetudinarians had reached the stage of desperation where they were driven to acknowledge failure, when Jack Warren happened along, in the van of the new railroad. A Breath of Prairie and other stories The expenses of a sick-bed are often talked of, but it is only the imaginary valetudinarian who thinks of carrying economy into that department; the real patient has other things to think of. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Are you a valetudinarian?—you may physic yourself by Nature's own simple prescription, walking in fresh air. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot The rarest sorts were flung about on rocks where nothing more valetudinarian than a baboon could possibly taste them. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Christmas was passed by me a valetudinarian at Macào, the ship having left me there, in hospital, on her passage from Hong-Kong to Whampoa. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas I shall once more be commensal with wild creatures, and wonder that solitude was ever a pain; I shall be healthily disdainful of the valetudinarian who lives to spoil either his body or his soul. Apologia Diffidentis The hot springs are interesting on account of the minerals around them, the heat of their waters, and as furnishing a retreat to valetudinarians from the sickly regions of the south. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West Men's active impulses are so differently mixed that a philosophy fit in this respect for Bismarck will almost certainly be unfit for a valetudinarian poet. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy There is no real life but cheerful life; therefore valetudinarians should be sworn before they enter into company not to say a word of themselves until the meeting breaks up. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies And there’s a valetudinarian aspect to the place which I find slightly depressing. The Prairie Mother Nothing like being up to date, even if valetudinarian. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 What is stranger still, with all this he was something of a valetudinarian. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert I doubt if he could live in retirement and inactivity—the life of a valetudinarian. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) To which I replied by giving him a full, complete, and accurate history of my ailments, after the manner of valetudinarians. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses This is the Montpelier of the East to the Dutch and Portuguese settlements in India; and, from the salubrity of its air, is the favourite resort of valetudinarians and invalids from Batavia and other places. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 I have now a small surprise for you, namely that Edith was already married, and owned a charming house, a valetudinarian husband and two pleasant children. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 They were a pale, harmless set of valetudinarians, who were, like all weakly persons, morbidly alive to their own bodily states, and principally employed in experimenting on the effects of various insipid articles of diet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The baths of Aix are very celebrated, and the town is much visited by valetudinarians: they are chiefly recommended in scorbutic humours, colds, rheumatisms, palsies, and consumptions. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 M. Fadius Gallus, the Epicurean, and M. Marius, the valetudinarian and wit, were among friends valued for their personal and agreeable qualities rather than for any public or political importance attaching to them. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order The most uninformed mind, with a healthy body, is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) For this alone, a stranger to the recent occurrences of the world would think he had toiled, just as valetudinarians take exercise for the purpose of securing sleep. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. They were never old, but were vernal in spirit to the last, and, for aught that appears to the contrary, generous livers, not "acid ghouls" or bran-eating valetudinarians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 The rest of the people named are other neighbours and friends, one of them, Mr Woodhouse, being an old gentleman of valetudinarian habits. A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools He was bound under heavy penalties to be through life a valetudinarian, and such doses of wine as the respectable Addison used regularly to absorb, would have brought speedy punishment. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Indeed, there are some who, so to speak, are spiritual valetudinarians, and who make themselves exceedingly ridiculous by their nervous supposition that they are wicked, while they are very tolerable people all the time. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals If it was money Goldsmith wanted, he was not likely to get it in that way; he had neither the appearance nor the manner fitted to humour the sick and transform healthy people into valetudinarians. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series Nor was Thoreau a valetudinarian in his physical, moral, or intellectual fiber. The Last Harvest Erasmus Rogers, the greatest figure in the Renaissance, was born at Rotterdam and brought up in extreme poverty, and he was a valetudinarian and an invalid in consequence of early privation. Lectures on Modern history Naturally, he fell into many of the self-indulgent and troublesome ways of the valetudinarian. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series In person he was very thin and somewhat under the middle height, and had all the air of a confirmed valetudinarian. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 Madame Danterre had always lived a very retired life, and was either a real invalid or a valetudinarian. Great Possessions His eyes shone with the ardour of the determined valetudinarian closeted with one paid to attend to his complaints. Bella Donna A Novel The man that has never been ill cannot sing the joys of health; the exultation of that strain is attainable only by the valetudinarian. Practical Essays The faith in the natural and simple operation of virtue, without the aid of all sorts of valetudinarian restrictions, comes out on every occasion. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues You may now read these long words as they are here presented, without a division of the syllables, as follows: valetudinarian, indefatigability, hypochondriacal, metempsychosis, hallucination, zoonomia, sesquipedality. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. The most uninformed mind with a healthy body, is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 He is English enough for anything, but I am afraid of his not keeping his appropriate boyishness if he is always hanging about with an old and serious valetudinarian like myself. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College My health is, and always will be, very poor: I am that miserable animal a regular valetudinarian.—Yours very sincerely, C. DARWIN. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 Like Voltaire and Rousseau, he was born dying, and he remained delicate and valetudinarian to the end. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) But I've been an unconscionable bore, even for a valetudinarian, and I believe they are privileged to tax people's amiability. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories A valetudinarian like William IV was not fitted to be the physician of a body-politic suffering from so many diseases as that of the United Provinces in 1747. History of Holland Her eyes sparkled as she spoke, and every gesture betokened rather the grand young creature that she was than the valetudinarian going forth for healing. The Mississippi Bubble Constant as had been his attentions for a number of days, he had hitherto held steadfastly to his valetudinarian stand against general society. V. V.'s Eyes He has been justly, though perhaps harshly, described as a "valetudinarian Grandison." Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) It has very largely emptied the ranks Of the valetudinarian cranks, By turning their minds to larger questions Than their own insides or their poor digestions. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 But besides the self-deception, the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Then, after a pause, and in the most dulcet accents of a valetudinarian cherub, "It's true, his best is not very good!" Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Miss Heth, I am as you say quite dull and safe: the dullest of all creatures, a play valetudinarian, bored to ill-manners at times, as you have observed, by large overdoses of my own society. V. V.'s Eyes These same fishermen bring great codfish from the outlying shoals, delicious clams from the flats, canvas-back duck, and teal, and yellow-leg plovers from the marshes, to tempt the delicate appetite of the valetudinarian. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 He begat four,—an epileptic, a lunatic, a dipsomaniac, and a valetudinarian,—and himself died insane. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Such people are valetudinarians in society, and they should no more come into company than a sick man should come into the air. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant But you mountaineers that can scale Andes before breakfast for an airing have no measures for the performance of lowlanders and valetudinarians. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I He obtained, I believe, considerable preferment in Ireland, but now lives in London, quite as a valetudinarian, afraid to go into any house but his own. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 There are large boarding-houses, fifty or more of them, each of which has its contingent of puling valetudinarians. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 In about eight hours, with the help of that Portuguese mountebank, you've changed me from a sane normal man into a blooming valetudinarian who must run all over the earth in search of health. Mr. Prohack "Art thou a man or a woman?" came in Yiddish the well-remembered tones of the valetudinarian lady. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People His life more and more became that of a bachelor recluse and valetudinarian. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The tone is that of the political valetudinarian, watching with uneasy eye the ways of rude health. Studies in Literature Mr. Davis himself is a valetudinarian, who took out of his life twice as much as his poor organization could bear. Without Dogma They will remain valetudinarians, so long as a curtain of compromise shelters them from the real belief of those of their neighbours who have ventured to use their minds with some measure of independence. On Compromise When a man of robust and vigorous constitution has a fit of sickness, it produces a more powerful effect, than the same indisposition upon a delicate valetudinarian. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are The pure air and fine summer climate of Mackinack begin to be appreciated within a year or two by valetudinarians. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers "Bah," said the doctor, who regarded a valetudinarian as a "scoundrel," "if you have so many things that will break, you had better break your neck at once, and there's an end on't." Samuel Johnson M. Itard, it should be remarked, was a confirmed valetudinarian; and a believer, before the investigation commenced, in the truth of magnetism. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 The gentlemen received the communication with stoical indifference, and Mrs. Tibbs devoted all her energies to prepare for the reception of the valetudinarian. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Much as we may admire such a robust old gamecock spirit in a valetudinarian, to call it a religious spirit would be odd. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature At three and twenty he thought himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue in the mirror. Les Misérables "You know, if you don't want to—" He was wounded in his wretched valetudinarian egotism, which was constantly on the scent of neglect. The Indian Lily and Other Stories A group of war valetudinarians, amongst whom Bruce was not the least emphatic, told each other their symptoms in a quiet corner. Love at Second Sight Surely rich English valetudinarians will not let this humane work stand still, seeing, as they must do daily, the urgent necessity of such interference! In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" It was only his own valetudinarian habits and extreme dread of fatigue which had prevented Lady Geraldine bringing him down in triumph. The Lovels of Arden At my time of life, a man must expect to be a valetudinarian, and it would be unjust to blame one's native climate for that. Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Certainly she would not have grudged her happiness to one of her sisters; if it could be called happiness to be subject to a suspicious mother-in-law and the nurse of a valetudinarian. The Indian Lily and Other Stories And, Sir, he is valetudinarian, one of those who are always mending themselves. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 Rich French valetudinarians, and tourists generally, have given up Wiesbaden and Ems from patriotic motives, and now spend their holidays and their money on French soil. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Perhaps only a valetudinarian would have been capable of this morbidezza of touch, this marriage of virile thought and feminine caprice. Amiel's Journal They were not of the jaundiced and disagreeable type of the valetudinarians. Cæsar or Nothing To the casual French valetudinarians sitting and strolling in the park, it was nothing but a social formality. The Mountebank But there is no hint of either editorial or valetudinarian seclusion in the fragmentary glimpses obtainable of Mr Justice Fielding during these eleven months of 1752. Henry Fielding: a Memoir Will Europe and America, with the entire civilized world, furnish valetudinarians in sufficient numbers to fill the hotels, villas, and boarding houses now rising at every stage of the same way? In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" For questioning moods grow burdensome with years; after a strain of virile doubt we are glad to acquiesce once more—to relapse into Platonic animism, the logic of valetudinarians. Old Calabria Before he reached middle life he was a valetudinarian. A History of English Literature He was a valetudinarian, and accustomed to regard his daughter as his nurse by right, and he resented the idea of her leaving him forlorn for the sake of a good-looking parson. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales But a pension of three hundred pounds a year was a slender fund for a travelling valetudinarian, and it was not then known that he had saved a moderate sum of money. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Some of these valetudinarians drink as many as forty-six glasses of mineral water a day! In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" "Monsieur mon père is not much given to rejoicings, and he takes this annual joy, much as a valetudinarian takes his morning draught." Home as Found An old valetudinarian in the city, who knew every spa in Europe, wanted to try that of Priory Leas and had consulted him about it. Gutta-Percha Willie True, ma'am, there are valetudinarians in reputation as in constitutions; and both are cautious from their appreciation and consciousness of their weak side, and avoid the least breath of air. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 "Which is certainly not suggestive of a valetudinarian," remarked Lucian, looking hard at the stranger. Cashel Byron's Profession Of course the valetudinarians contribute to the general prosperity, a prosperity which it is difficult for residents in an English watering-place to realize. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Here are always to be seen a great number of valetudinarians from the West Indies, seeking for the renovation of health, exhausted by the debilitating nature of their sun, air, and modes of living. Letters from an American Farmer The judge was dowered with extreme irascibility of temper, due to his chronic valetudinarian condition. South Wind It was a warm day, the windows were closed, my valetudinarian hostess having a horror of draughts, and a cheery fire was blazing up the chimney. The Red Planet Only there was plenty of vigour still manifest in the bushman's bony frame, while the man of the world wore a valetudinarian air, leaning on the arm of his regal, upright wife. Sisters And where it would have been impolitic to refuse a new and influential patient, some one on his list—a doubtful payer or a valetudinarian—was gently to be let drop. Australia Felix To her question I replied that I had not the right to tie her for life to a helpless valetudinarian. Simon the Jester All trace of illness, of infirmity, had gone from the valetudinarian; he stood erect on the floor, his face twitching convulsively, and his arms folded. Zanoni He was at once a valetudinarian and a voluptuary; and, in both characters, he loved his ease. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 It is curious to observe the contrast between the dexterity with which he ruled the conscience of a foolish valetudinarian, and the imbecility which he showed when placed at the head of an empire. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 This kind of valetudinarian effeminacy, this habit of coddling himself, appears in all parts of his conduct. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 In March and April however, I would not advise a valetudinarian to go forth, without taking precaution against the cold. Travels through France and Italy That valetudinarians are always chattering about it, and indulging in it to excess, is no reason for despising it. And Even Now Indeed, there are some who are, so to speak, spiritual valetudinarians, and who make themselves exceedingly ridiculous by their nervous supposition that they are wicked, while they are very tolerable people all the time. Erewhon And, Sir, he is a valetudinarian, one of those who are always mending themselves. Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Those you find are generally on the tops of houses, exceedingly nasty; and so much exposed to the weather, that a valetudinarian cannot use them without hazard of his life. Travels through France and Italy |
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