"Valetudinary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... velvet cap. His dress of ceremony was black, with a tie-wig, and a little sword. The indulgence and accommodation which his sickness required, had taught him all the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man. He expected that everything should give way to his ease or humour, as a child, whose parents will not hear her cry, has an unresisted ...
— Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope • Samuel Johnson |
