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"Dyspeptic" Quotes from Famous Books

... recently doctored up to look like new, for sale. Cost, second-hand, six years ago, L4. Will take L12 for it. Bargain. Would suit a dyspeptic giant, or a professional strong man ...

— Mr. Punch Awheel - The Humours of Motoring and Cycling • J. A. Hammerton

... let the result rest in this somewhat sad but peaceful aspect, it is quite customary to give it a turn and hue of ghastly horribleness, by casting over it the dyspeptic dreams, injecting it with the lurid lights and shades, of a morbid and wilful fancy. The most loathsome and inexcusable instance in point is the "Vision of Annihilation" depicted by the vermicular, infested imagination ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... All fear is bookish talk Cooked up by writers out of literature, To give the shudder to dyspeptic girls. Dying is easy. Come along, my friend! A glass of port shall cure us of such fears; Moments like this make mirth ...

— The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold - A Play for a Greek Theatre • John Jay Chapman

... of science! Perhaps you would do away with the orgiastic eating and drinking, and arrange for a formal conversation about astronomy and the idea of human fraternity, upon strictly reasonable rations of shredded wheat! You would thus create an original festival, and eliminate all fear of a dyspeptic morrow. You would improve the mind. And you would avoid the ridiculous. But also, in avoiding the ridiculous, you would tumble into the ridiculous, deeply and hopelessly! And think how your very original festival would delight the participators, how they would look forward to it ...

— The Feast of St. Friend • Arnold Bennett

Words linked to "Dyspeptic" : sick person, sick, dyspepsia, ill-natured, ill, sufferer, diseased person