Mares heavy with foal often have dropsical swellings. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
This treatment alone has cured many dropsical patients. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
She appeared to me quite dropsical as I crossed o'er the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawning of the Day] Reference
Its large eyes appeared young and unhealthy, almost dropsical. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
If a dropsical patient be seized with hiccup the case is hopeless. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
In dropsical persons, ulcers forming on the body are not easily healed. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
Situated away from the point of origin or attachment. dropsy (dropsical) (edema). From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
His dropsical Symptoms have left him and he has for a month past surprizingly mended. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 3 September 1782] Reference
Whisper him (if he doubts) that she is bloated, dropsical, and not the woman she was. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Instead of dropsical and rotting hovels, neat and smiling cottages were seen on every side. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
There stood against the wall opposite to the window an ancient and dropsical chest of drawers. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
There is a prominent error in connection with all dropsical tendencies, which should be removed. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Holland than elsewhere, it is best to order "Hollands," with water, as a drink for dropsical persons. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
He also healed here the dropsical woman of the house where He stayed, and was mocked by the Pharisees. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference
A dropsical person might be plagued by thirst, yet drink - ing would aggravate the disease (Boyle, 1725). From Wordnik.com. [HEALTH AND DISEASE] Reference
About this time the child began to "swell up" as if dropsical; it lost its healthy color and looked as if made of wax. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
As a water-god also he presided over the souls of the drowned and those who in life suffered from dropsical affections. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
The eye could not be satiated by beholding him, like the dropsical man with water by looking at the river Euphrates. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
Moving like an ancient dropsical woman, Cinnilla dragged herself into the room and went to sit at Caesar's side on the couch. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
In other cases the tumour will be full of watery waste, or there may be a simple dropsical swelling owing to failure in kidney action. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
The building was decidedly ugly, its dark frontage running up into an overhanging upper story, giving it a listing and dropsical look. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
‘What reptile?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking about him for fear he should tread on some overgrown black beetle, or dropsical spider. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
He was attacked by a low fever, his stomach rejected food, insomnia afflicted his nights, and dropsical swellings appeared on his legs. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
A dropsical condition of the leg may follow, and because of interference with the circulation of the blood we get cramps and neuralgias. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
In the female, the ovary is frequently the seat of dropsical accumulation to such an extent as to distend the abdomen very considerably. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Then he could tolerate a disproportion and profusion that make his book as dropsical and shapeless as each sentence is symmetrical and smooth. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The wound was not trifling, and to one in his damaged and dropsical condition it was dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
"Do not you know that the king thirsts for money as a dropsical man does for water, my lord bishop?". From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
By the fourth day out his gums were as blue as indigo, and he was so swelled up with his own venom he looked dropsical. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Revised] Reference
How is it -- answer me, son of so wise a father -- that no one pities the dropsical jeweller, and all pity the healthy Savoyard?. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
He unwound the bandage and showed a hand and arm swollen out of all shape, twice the natural size, and of a singular dropsical pallor. From Wordnik.com. [The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake] Reference
The man was gross and yet haggard; it was not the padding of good living which clothed his bones, but a heaviness as of some dropsical malady. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference
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