"Indigestion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I said. "Indigestion, most likely. Too much tea the last day or two, and not enough solid food. I've been ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... content in your wilderness? It seems to have been a pattern wilderness. For you, a simple wholesome food, ready cooked, was provided. You took no thought for rent and taxes; you had no poor among you—no poor-rate collectors. You suffered not from indigestion, nor the hundred ills that follow over-feeding; an omer for every man was your portion, neither more nor less. You knew not you had a liver. Doctors wearied you not with their theories, their physics, and their bills. You were ...
— The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome
... cna, but something of the kind. He had received a present of Alpine cheese, and he ordered some for supper. The trap for his life was baited with toasted cheese. There is no reason to think that he ate immoderately; but that night he was seized with indigestion. Delirium followed; during which it is singular that his mind teemed with a class of imagery and of passions the most remote (as it might have been thought) from the voluntary occupations of his thoughts. He raved about the State, ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey
... don't quite starve us, and let everybody else have indigestion. We don't say it out loud, but there it is; and the spirit of it might ...
— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope
... eat it!" answered the twins' father, with a laugh. "I'm going to bait a trap with cheese to catch the mice. I don't care whether they get the indigestion or not." ...
— The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat • Laura Lee Hope
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