valetudinary

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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.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

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.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

She had the misfortune of a very valetudinary constitution, owing, in some measure, probably to the irregularity of her form.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

Could a person in this condition execute violence against another?—I, feeble and valetudinary, with no inducement to engage—no ability to accomplish—no weapon wherewith to perpetrate such a fact;—without interest, without power, without motives, without means!

From Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

This attack gives a decidedly valetudinary tone to one of his subsequent letters to Deborah.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell