In their fascinating and eloquent valetudinarian correspondence, Adams and Jefferson had a great deal to say about religion. |
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Diseases cannot be cured by mummifying the valetudinarian victim's mortal vessel in bandages. |
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Emma, a clever, pretty, and self-satisfied young woman, is the daughter, and mistress of the house, of Mr Woodhouse, an amiable old valetudinarian. |
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Thackeray, who adored the painting, assumed that Turner had cast the tugboat as the gnomic villain of the piece, dragging the valetudinarian to its last indignity. |
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Are you a mere valetudinarian, my dear Ladyship, or some prolific mendicant whose bewitched offspring she hopes I can return to human shape? |
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I would have made supper, but Federico was even more fussy and valetudinarian than your average Italian man, and insisted on making himself risotto bianco with only a single leaf of basil to flavour it. |
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The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. |
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