companies

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Another did thoroughly cure folks of dropsies, tympanies, ascites, and hyposarcides, striking them on the belly nine times with a Tenedian hatchet, without any solution of the continuum.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

He has tympanies of business, in his face, And can forget men's names, with a great grace.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

When unnatural humours are engendered, as too much phlegm, tympanies, wind, water, worms, or any other evil humour abounding contrary to nature, it causes barrenness as do all terms not coming down in due order.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

My Lady Bountiful said so—she, good lady, did what could be done; she cured her of three tympanies, but the fourth carried her off; but she's happy, and I'm contented, as the saying is.

From The Beaux-Stratagem A comedy in five acts by Farquhar, George

She, good lady, did what could be done; she cured her of three tympanies, but the fourth carried her off.

From The Beaux-Stratagem by Farquhar, George