"Lumbago" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I wish I hadn't funked it, but with my lumbago I never dare risk damp grass and it looked so awfully ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 14th, 1920 • Various
... elsewhere. There is plenty of other work to be done, thank God; and wholesomer and easier work than mowing with a burning sun on their backs, drinking gallons of beer, and getting first hot and then cold across the loins, till they lay in a store of lumbago and sciatica, to cripple them in their old age. You delight in machinery because it is curious: you should delight in it besides because it does good, and nothing but good, where it is used, according to the laws of Lady Why, with care, moderation, and mercy, and fair-play between man and man. For ...
— Madam How and Lady Why - or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children • Charles Kingsley
... thankful. But you have missed the postscript about Uncle Martin. This is what Harry says: 'I met him in long boots one day when I went up to see Calvert, trailing a survey chain not far from the Day Spring mine, and when I asked him what he was doing it for, and whether snow-slush was good for lumbago, he smiled and answered in the silver tongue of your native country something I failed to comprehend. For a respectable cotton-spinner, as I told him, he ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... believe for a minute the story of my own disease being the same as their miserable little complaints. In recurring periods of conscious thought I go through the list of things I know for a fact I have got—rheumatic fever, sciatica, lumbago, toothache, neuritis, bronchitis, laryngitis, tonsilitis, neuralgia, gastritis, catarrh of several kinds, heart disease and inflammation (or possibly congestion) of the lungs. I shall think of some more presently, if my nurse ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 18, 1917 • Various
... way of apologizing for the unusual rigidity of his style in that chapter, he says in a note, that it was written upon a straight-backed settle, when he was ill of a lumbago, and ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville
... "Some thinks it's lumbago," said the little man; "and more calls it neurology. There is them," he added cautiously, "as has used the word tuber-clossis; I don't hold with that myself, but I'm doctorin' for all three, not ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards
... there and let me get up," said Karna, who lay against the wall—she had kept silence while the men-folk were speaking. "He gets this lumbago, I can tell you!" she declared, jumping out ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... But Lord Panmure's relations with him were hardly more satisfactory than his relations with Lord Raglan; for, while Lord Raglan had been too independent, poor General Simpson erred in the opposite direction, perpetually asked advice, suffered from lumbago, doubted (his nose growingredder and redder daily) whether he was fit for his post, and, by alternate mails, sent in and withdrew his resignation. Then, too, both the General and the Minister suffered ...
— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey
... nearly across the way, had come over after supper to prescribe for the storekeeper's wife, who had lumbago, and joined the circle around the stove, seeing within it such worthy companions as the lawyer and the Squire, and having room made promptly and deferentially ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... amount of pride she seemed to have in it, when she was drawn gently to the fire, by a sturdy figure of a man, much taller and much older than herself, who had to stoop a long way down to kiss her. But she was worth the trouble. Six foot six, with the lumbago, might have ...
— The Cricket on the Hearth • Charles Dickens
... come, for he is down with lumbago in the back. He questioned me as to what ailed Martin, and he got a book to go looking for a cure, and he began telling me things out of it, but I said I could not be carrying things of that sort in my head. He gave me the book then, ...
— The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays • William B. Yeats
... Lumbago is often feigned, and the imposture should be suspected when there is a motive, and when physical signs, such as nodes and tender spots, are absent. A simple test is to inadvertently drop a shilling in front of him, when he will promptly stoop and pick it up. The same ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson
... drunk wine an' porter, I do not deny, But then my accusers hev not tell'd you why; So ther false accusation I feel it more keen, 'Cause I've hed the lumbago i' both o' my een; Besides, mi back warked as if it wor broke, An' mi throit's been so parched wol I ...
— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End
... called impatiently, but Cheape, with his ancient lumbago, in his comfortable cottage would be the last man to profane the sanctuary. 'Sheep,' she concluded, and threw in the fusee. The pyre went up in a roar, and the immediate flame hastened night ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... when I was young—as brisk As a yearling tup with the ewes, till I'd the pains, Like red-hot iron, clamping back and thighs. My heart's a younker's still; but even love Gives in, at last, to rheumatics and lumbago. Now, I'm no better than an old bell-wether, A broken-winded, hirpling tattyjack That can do nothing but baa and baa and baa. I'd just to whistle for a wench at ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
... Asthma, Backache, Lumbago, Strains, Bronchitis, Female Weakness and all other transient aches and pains. A strengthening support wherever applied. ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... over-shoes.—No, much obliged to you, said I. I don't want those things, and I had a little rather talk with you here, privately, in my study. So I dressed myself up in a jaunty way and walked out alone;—got a fall, caught a cold, was laid up with a lumbago, and had time to ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... amongst a goodly company of Lords, Ladies, and wits, etc., there was poor old Vice Leach, the lawyer, attempting to play off the fine gentleman. His first exhibition, an attempt on horseback, I think, to escort the women—God knows where—in the month of November, ended in a fit of the Lumbago—as Lord Ogleby says, 'a grievous enemy to Gallantry and address'—and if he could have but heard Lady Jersey quizzing him (as I did) next day for the cause of his malady, I don't think that he would have turned a 'Squire of dames' in a hurry again. ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... of a few more days she went to her old husband to ask him how he was. He said he was a bit troubled with his lumbago, ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... you,—or somebody. When the wind is east, or north-east, or even north, I am cross, for I have the lumbago. It's all very well talking about being good-humoured. You can't be good-humoured with the lumbago. And I have the gout sometimes in my knee. I'm cross enough then, and so you'd be. And, among 'em all, I don't ...
— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope |
