How To Use Valetudinarian In A Sentence
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A man in good health may put up with any thing; but I would advise every valetudinarian who travels this way, to provide his own chaise, mattrass, and bedlinnen, otherwise he will pass his time very uncomfortably.
Travels through France and Italy
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Know then, I have made divers desperate leaps at those upper regions; but always fell backward into this vapour-pit, exhausted and dispirited by those ineffectual efforts; and here we poor valetudinarians pant and struggle, like so many Chinese gudgeons, gasping in the bottom of a punch-bowl.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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A trickle of visitors soon turned to a flood and the Silesian peasant was, by the beginning of the 1840s, personally ministering to hundreds of valetudinarians a year.
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ONE hour more to dinner-time conversation, to be added or subtracted, as occasions offered, or the desire of her friends required: and yet found it difficult, as she often said, to keep this account even; especially if Dr. Lewen obliged them with his company at their table; which, however he seldom did; for, being a valetudinarian, and in a regimen, he generally made his visits in the afternoon.
Clarissa Harlowe
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A "valetudinarian" is a10-dollar word for someone who is sickly.
Post-gazette.com - News
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I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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In the western part of the parish is a valley encircled with hills, celebrated for goats’ milk, which is in much request by valetudinarians, who resort hither during the summer months.
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Her valetudinarian but masterful father, son of a wool merchant, became sufficiently well-to-do to retire from business.
Ada Leverson.
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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
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At three and twenty he thought himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue in the mirror.
Les Miserables
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In their fascinating and eloquent valetudinarian correspondence, Adams and Jefferson had a great deal to say about religion.
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Does he not lie there as a perpetual lesson of despair, and type of bedrid valetudinarian impotence?
Paras. 1-19
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The group highly recommended with the vaccination include citizens above 60 years old, people with chronic diseases, valetudinarians, medical workers, primary school students and kindergartners.
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You, who have nothing to fear on that score, might wish to play the valetudinarian as a novelty.
The Scandal of the Season
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I replied by giving him a full, complete, and accurate history of my ailments, after the manner of valetudinarians.
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The wonder is that valetudinarians have not more frequently availed themselves of the advantages it offers, instead of having recourse to watering-places.
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Emma, a clever, pretty, and self-satisfied young woman, is the daughter, and mistress of the house, of Mr Woodhouse, an amiable old valetudinarian.
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Dietetic recommendations aimed at the cultivation of mind were replaced around the middle of the century by characterisations of polite urban eaters as valetudinarians and the creation of a market for health advice and products.
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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.
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I am persuaded that all valetudinarians are too sedentary, too regular, and too cautious — We should sometimes increase the motion of the machine, to unclog the wheels of life; and now and then take a plunge amidst the waves of excess, in order to caseharden the constitution.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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The number of valetudinarians continued to decrease and the Spa House became in time the headquarters of the roistering Rakes of Mallow.
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I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents;
Mark Twain's Speeches
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At this moment, the stranger who had put the coachman and groom right about the word valetudinarian, rose from the seat he had occupied in the corner of the room, and uttering a deep, hollow groan, walked towards the door.
Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
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The present invention has good taste and health care effect, and may be used as the excellent nutrient source for athlete, valetudinarian and other special people.
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She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self - centered valetudinarian.
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The English people are a nation of valetudinarians, but there is not sufficient nutriment in their food, which seems to consist mainly of chilled meat.
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Less forward-looking ones had slipped into a more valetudinarian mode, forgetting to shave or apply make-up.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE