| 单词 | valetudinary |
| 例句 | Those subject to this Malady are valetudinary weakly Persons, who are disordered from many slight Causes, and whose Stomachs are at once very feeble and extremely sensible. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z This attack gives a decidedly valetudinary tone to one of his subsequent letters to Deborah. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z It is still visited by valetudinary people, especially on the 1st of May and the 1st of August. Chronicles of Strathearn Though valetudinary, he lived to be nearly ninety, and to welcome to Scotland his son, Colonel William Duncan, who, with the highest character for military and civil merit, had made a considerable fortune in India. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) It is worthy of remark, that the Austrian medical officers send the valetudinary among the soldiers to these baths from a very great distance. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II The indulgence and accommodation which his sickness required, had taught him all the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II An adagio may set a gouty father to sleep, and a capriccio may operate successfully on the nerves of a valetudinary mother. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Beside these suffering men Lord George lay on a floor all night, having given up the minister's house in Musselburgh, which had been destined as his quarters, to those who were valetudinary. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary; it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) The buoyant mountain trips we have touched upon, and more, are within almost instant call of every dispirited Pau valetudinary, and of farther travelers as well. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees Instead of making him a valetudinary, this continual liability to death aided to make him a hero. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 She had the misfortune of a very valetudinary constitution, owing, in some measure, probably to the irregularity of her form. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. The father, a good-natured, silly valetudinary, abandons the management of his household to Emma, he himself being only occupied by his summer and winter walk, his apothecary, his gruel, and his whist table. Famous Reviews This quaint observation may have been due to some valetudinary motive, or, more probably, to some odd freak of association. Samuel Johnson Be pleased to acquaint us how we must behave our selves towards this valetudinary Friendship, subject to so many Heats and Colds, and you will oblige, Sir, Your humble Servant, Miranda.' The Spectator, Volume 2. I was first entertained by his lady and daughter, he himself being in bed with a cold, according to his valetudinary custom. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 The Lady of Lochleven rose from the bedside, and darted a penetrating look at the elder valetudinary. The Abbot His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 |
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