"Indoor" Quotes from Famous Books
... when she began to grow better, she made herself useful among the other patients, and was so helpful, that when one of the nurses went away, they kept her on in her place. But evidently she had not been used with town life, or even indoor life, and she grew dowie first, and then despairing, and he was glad at the thought of getting her away, for fear of what might happen. It was change which she needed, and work such as she had been ... — Allison Bain - By a Way she knew not • Margaret Murray Robertson
... out of bed too early in the morning, but rise in time to eat your breakfast slowly, attend to the toilet, and catch the car without haste. If your occupation be an indoor one, rise an hour earlier, and walk or ... — Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs
... may stick too closely to the house; an underdomestic one may go too often to movies and suffer the fatigue of mind and body that comes from over-indulgence in this most popular indoor sport. Carelessness about the eating and the care of the bowel functions may have started a vicious chain of things leading through irritability and fatigue into neurasthenia. We say human beings are all the same, but the range of individual susceptibility to trouble is such that ... — The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson
... people still play games. I do not mean cards or tennis or golf or any of the famous outdoor and indoor sports, but just games, the sort of things that are sometimes called stunts and that make the life of the party—or, by their absence or failure, rob the evening gathering of all its vitality. For the people who play games, Edna Geister is the one best bet. ... — When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton
... receive first consideration in planning the indoor laboratory. It should be as spacious as circumstances will permit and safe, that is to say clean and ... — A Catalogue of Play Equipment • Jean Lee Hunt
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