Usage examples (23)

• The Lady of Lochleven rose from the bedside, and darted a penetrating look at the elder valetudinary.
• Governor himself, expressed that settled peevishness and ill temper which characterize the morning hours of a valetudinary debauchee.
• The whole season being wet, cold, and northerly, people were, for the most part, healthy during winter; but early in the spring very many, indeed, the greater part, were...
• Beside these suffering men Lord George lay on a floor all night, having given up the minister's house in Musselburgh, which had been destined as his quarters, to those who were...