10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VALETUDINARIAN»
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valetudinarian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
valetudinarian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
valetudinarian. (val-i-tood-en-AR-ee-an) noun a person who is excessively and
morbidly concerned with his or her health. And, Sir, he is a valetudinarian, one of
those who are always mending themselves. I do not know a more disagreeable ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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The Keepsake: A Gift for the Holidays
THE. CONFIRMED. VALETUDINARIAN. BY SIB E. BULWEB LYTTON. Certainly
there is truth in the French saying, that there is no ill without something of good.
What state more pitiable to the eye of a man of robust health than that of the ...
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Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium
notations of these items — young and beloved and valetudinarian — we find four
possibilities, the other three being old, beloved, and valetudinarian; young, lover,
and valetudinarian; and old, lover, and valetudinarian. We must see if any of ...
Leo Strauss, Seth Benardete, 2003
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The traveller's own book, to Saratoga Springs, Niagara Falls ...
a complete guide for the valetudinarian and the tourist... Samuel De Veaux. THE i
TKAVELLER'S OWN BOOR, SARATOGA SPRINGS, 1 NIAGARA FALLS AND
CANADA, COHTAININO ROUTES, DISTANCES, CONVEYANCES, EXPENSES,
...
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London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer...
Tbt. Valetudinarian. Famify*. The Valetudinarian Family. The Valetudinarian
Family. 7-*. rmt not severe ; tray, but not dissolute. Affable in his disposition, he
was the dciight ot" every one who approached him; none went out of his
presence ...
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Gems of Beauty, Or, Literary Gift for ...
THE CONFIRMED VALETUDINARIAN. BY SIR E. BULWER LYTTON. Certainly
there is truth in the French saying, that there is no ill without something of good.
What state more pitiable to the eye of a man of robust health than that of the ...
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The Town and Country Magazine, Or Universal Repository of ...
This valetudinarian had made a very notable dilcovery, that an easterly wind was
very unhealthftil, and that the moie t>ne could avoid it the better. Accordingly he
had a vane erected facing his bed chamber window, which he could view whilst ...
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The New Monthly Magazine
Some of the actors are " the Valetudinarian," who frequents them for his health,
and a youthful stranger, for whom " the Valetudinarian" conceives a lively interest,
but to whose acquaintance, and even speech, every effort fails of introducing him
...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1827
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The New Monthly Magazine
The " Valetudinarian" is an exquisite morsel, upon the model of the " Stout
Gentleman," and well adapted, like its original, to keep the reader in an incessant
smile, if not in broader mirth, (and not wholly unaccompanied, perchance, with a
tear) ...
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There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent ...
This is a good word for someone who is badly sunburned. valetudinarian: (VAL-
e-T(Y)OO-di-NAIR-ee-in) a person obsessed with some ailment or who is in
generally poor health. The valetudinarian and the hypochondriac are both
whiners ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VALETUDINARIAN»
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valetudinarian is used in the context of the following news items.
Cara Nicoletti, Butcher, Baker and Author
... Austen's “Emma” is followed by instructions for preparing the perfect soft-boiled egg, the preferred food of the heroine's valetudinarian father, Mr. Woodhouse. «New York Times, Jul 15»
As I tried to get to my seat at the Who concert, I felt bad about making …
... that more than any other in recent memory has come to exemplify shutting the stable door after the valetudinarian nag has bolted: “I hope I die before I get old.”. «New Statesman, Jul 15»
'Emma: A Modern Retelling,' by Alexander McCall Smith
McCall Smith also reimagines the heroine's valetudinarian father as a germophobic food faddist, and reveals that Harriet Smith — an illegitimate child in ... «New York Times, May 15»
Political violence: A typically British denial
... we've just marked the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe with the same march pasts of serving troops, and the same roll-pasts of valetudinarian ones. «Middle East Eye, May 15»
Thursday Zing!
•So Gary Yordon is a valetudinarian. What other disorders does he have? •U.S. Senator Rick Scott? Not now, thanks to the House. •Just as well that the Supreme ... «Tallahassee.com, May 15»
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Breakfast television, radio shock jocks, politicians, Twitter gibberers, drunken uncles, valetudinarian nanas, summer sales advertisements and media columnists ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 14»
Will Self: I couldn't believe the Hovel was as bad as Nick Lezard …
It was pretty good rice, actually, and I savoured it as I looked about at the broken-backed furniture and the huge collection of valetudinarian “holiday” booze ... «New Statesman, Dec 14»
Irish doctor defends Haig
Haig was no valetudinarian (a person who is unduly anxious about their health) – the fact that he carried on during the whole period of the war with scarcely a ... «Irish Times, Oct 14»
The Alphabet Library: V is for The Vodi by John Braine
... was sly, cunning and pragmatic, Dick Covey in The Vodi was paranoid, valetudinarian and Romantically morbid; where Lampton saw postwar society as his to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
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Revolving around her unhappy arranged marriage to the valetudinarian, Camille Raquin, under the dominating eye of Madame Raquin, Thérèse begins an ... «ArtsHub, Aug 14»
