Vanquished at last, I went over to visit the eupeptic voyagers. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference
Every chance-comer was instantaneously gauged as dyspeptic or eupeptic, friend or foe. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
A smallish, eupeptic gentleman, he inquired politely if they were bringing any items to Earth for sale. From Wordnik.com. [Codgerspace]
Clara Cullom ate joyously, with the appreciative discrimination of the clear-skinned, eupeptic human animal. From Wordnik.com. [The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas] Reference
'Alas,' says Carlyle, 'what is the loftiest flight of genius, the finest frenzy that ever for moments united Heaven with Earth, to the perennial never-failing joys of a digestive apparatus thoroughly eupeptic?'. From Wordnik.com. [No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes] Reference
Being founded upon a rock, it does not care, in its collective capacity, to sit upon rockers, but has an immense series of warehouses, omnivorous and eupeptic, which swallow all manner of tithes, from grain and horseshoes to the less stable commodities of fresh fish and melons, assimilating them by admirable processes into coin of the realm. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
A.M. to 7 P.M., a foolish feat even for the eupeptic. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
The cheerful, eupeptic countenance of the latter was clouded with care. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference
But why at sight of those rubicund, full-grown, eupeptic Morris-dancers on the vernal highroad?. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
I did not sleep much, for I was strung too high with expectation, and I envied Blenkiron his now eupeptic slumbers. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
On the problem of Death, except in masquerade of robes and wings, his eupeptic temperament never allowed him to dwell. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
Placid as this music may seem on the surface, it no more reflects a tranquil reality than eupeptic pop songs about Santa reflect a vibrant economy. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
In the long drop of nightdress from shoulder to peeping toes, her hair cascading straight but full of electric fluff to her waist, she was as vibrant and as eupeptic as. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
On the whole, as you may have gathered, while I should call Proud Peter a comfortable tale of the eupeptic type, I enjoyed it rather less than other stories from the same facile pen. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916] Reference
Stamping with his foot, he brought up the cook with the euphonious and eupeptic name, and that quick-witted domestic soon had a supper on the table that would have made a full man's mouth water. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)] Reference
For to-night at least I intend to cherish a vision of myself marching triumphantly down the years, toasting-fork in hand, in person eupeptic and callipygian, on paper brilliant and profound. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
Therefore the argument which had sprung up between them during dinner had ended by being not so much a duel as a brawl: and while duels with food are both entertaining and eupeptic, brawls are neither. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Miniver] Reference
How much of Carlyle's fame he owes to his dyspepsia, one cannot accurately determine; but his works contain an excess of invective that probably would have had no place there if he had been a eupeptic person. From Wordnik.com. [The Pugnacious Style] Reference
On the other hand, a virtue that breathes so freely as not to be aware of its breathing is the right moral analogue of a thoroughly eupeptic state; as "the healthy know not of their health, but only the sick.". From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference
On the other hand, a virtue that breathes so freely as not to be aware of its breathing is the right moral analogue of a thoroughly eupeptic state; as “the healthy know not of their health, but only the sick.”. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters]
The night once come, our happiness, our unhappiness, -- it is all abolished; vanished, clean gone; a thing that has been: 'not of the slightest consequence' whether we were happy as eupeptic Curtis, as the fattest pig of. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
If we are careful to be wisely and without excess happy and affectionate when they are good, and saddened and slightly cooled in manifestations of love if they do wrong, the power of association in the normal, eupeptic child will early choose right as surely as pleasure increases vitality. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
As to the self-sufficiency of this world, a successful Professor with a eupeptic body might take such a view, but if one found oneself with cancer of the stomach in a London garret, one might question the doctrine that there was no need to yearn for any state of being save that in which we found ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Mist]
The night once come, our happiness, our unhappiness, -- it is all abolished; vanished, clean gone; a thing that has been: not of the slightest consequence whether we were as happy as eupeptic Curtis, as the fattest pig of Epicurus, or unhappy as Job with potsherds, as musical Byron with Giaours and sensibilities of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference
Nay, in stupidity itself on a scale of this magnitude, there is an impressiveness, almost a sublimity; one thinks how, in the words of Schiller, “the very Gods fight against it in vain”; how it lies on its unfathomable foundations there, inert yet peptic; nay, eupeptic; and is a Fact in the world, let theory object as it will. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I]
The night once come, our happiness, our unhappiness, -- it is all abolished; vanished, clean gone; a thing that has been: 'not of the slightest consequence' whether we were happy as eupeptic Curtis, as the fattest pig of Epicurus, or unhappy as job with potsherds, as musical Byron with Giaours and sensibilities of the heart; as the unmusical Meat-jack with hard labour and rust!. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
“I am an eupeptic, energetic sort of person on principle. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
The mutton-eater is eupeptic. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Bridles that eupeptic thrush. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919] Reference
Extolling it as utterly eupeptic. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference
I envied them their eupeptic calm. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Men] Reference
Thus the son of a robust, cheerful, eupeptic. From Wordnik.com. [Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion] Reference
eupeptic. ". From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Wenuses] Reference
She was -- indeed she was magnificently -- eupeptic. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
Thus the son of a robust, cheerful, eupeptic British country squire, with the tastes and range of his class, and of a clever, imaginative, intellectual, highly civilized Jewess, might be very superior to both his parents; but it is not likely that the Jewess would find the squire an interesting companion, or his habits, his friends, his place and mode of life congenial to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutionists Handbook] Reference
When born with good constitutions, they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours, as the steam-hammer with the music-box; Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens, and Bentleys, and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs, with a supreme culture. From Wordnik.com. [XII. English Traits. Universities] Reference
When born with good constitutions, they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours, as the steam-hammer with the music-box; -- Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens, and Bentleys, and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs, with a supreme culture. From Wordnik.com. [English Traits (1856)] Reference
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