dyspepsy
Example Sentences
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Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas."
From Time Magazine Archive
No, any dinner I'd get would give you compound, gallopin' dyspepsy, and I can't be responsible for your death—I love you too much.
From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln
I has the dyspepsy; my suggestion aint as good as common.
From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman
Can he, without dyspepsy, endure irregular meals—hasty eatings and long fastings?
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 by William Chambers
Besides, they eat them unhealthy oysters and Charlotte rooshes, and such like: no wonder so many people get the dyspepsy.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
