valetudinarian

How To Use valetudinarian In A Sentence

• I replied by giving him a full, complete, and accurate history of my ailments, after the manner of valetudinarians.
• Less forward-looking ones had slipped into a more valetudinarian mode, forgetting to shave or apply make-up. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
• 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.
• She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self - centered valetudinarian.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• The number of valetudinarians continued to decrease and the Spa House became in time the headquarters of the roistering Rakes of Mallow.
• 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
• 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.