The poet requested to have the title of Valetudinarian to her majesty: the queen smiled, and Scarron considered the smile as a commission to his new office.
His skill in this art he rendered subservient to his philanthropy; for he gratuitously attended the valetudinarian poor wherever he resided, and favoured them with medical advice, as well as pecuniary assistance.
A certain Valetudinarian confesses he has often been cured of a sore Throat by the Hoarseness of a Carman, and relieved from a Fit of the Gout by the Sound of old Shoes.
Valetudinarian though he was, Horace maintains, in his later as in his early writings, a uniform cheerfulness.
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.
We have not walked as far as the creek yet; the first effect of valetudinarian habits is, I find, to make one feel really ill.
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.
The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue.
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.
Like Voltaire and Rousseau, he was born dying, and he remained delicate and valetudinarian to the end.
He has been justly, though perhaps harshly, described as a "valetudinarian Grandison.
The Valetudinarianis a man subject to some affliction, imaginary or real, or it may be both.
Mr. Burr, a young man who had left the room soon after he came in, having been annoyed with his valetudinarian twaddle.
The company again left the Valetudinarian for their social enjoyments; and not long after left Mrs. Blunt's for their respective homes.
The bore is gone, the valetudinarian has made his exit," exclaimed Master Thompson, rather excited.
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.
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.
In March and April however, I would not advise a valetudinarian to go forth, without taking precaution against the cold.
Nora Avenel had fled from the boyish love of Harley L'Estrange, recommended by Lady Lansmere to a valetudinarian relative of her own, Lady Jane Horton, as companion.
No valetudinarian was ever more unpleasantly jostled out of his self-compassion.
Sat like a valetudinarianin the Park all day getting fresh air--among the imbeciles, invalids, and children.
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.
This valetudinarian majority should make the youngest of us pause and reflect.
For Mr Morion, valetudinarian though he was, had not even the "qualites de ses defauts" in some respects.
