Another common disorder that was highlighted was obesity hypoventilation syndrome (also known as Pickwickian syndrome). From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines] Reference
The northerners do not understand that these expressions are only meant in a sort of "Pickwickian" sense; hence the error. From Wordnik.com. [Before the War, and After the Union; An Autobiography] Reference
'bloody shirt' is only a kind of Pickwickian battle cry. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry : an autobiography,] Reference
That "character" is used in a Pickwickian sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
He watched the Pickwickian from under sleepy eyelids. From Wordnik.com. [Black Butterfly] Reference
There was something Pickwickian in his small rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Australian political society the Pickwickian spectacle of a drunken. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
‘Nay,’ said the eloquent Pickwickian — ‘I know it but too well.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
He assumed his duties with a bland Pickwickian zest, which did good to the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917] Reference
His white silk scarf had twisted up the points of his collar to give him a Pickwickian air. From Wordnik.com. [Black Butterfly] Reference
A Pickwickian scene where he gets lost in a park and ends up, embarrassed, in somebody's backyard. From Wordnik.com. [Did Someone Say No Worries?] Reference
Saying this, Mrs. Pott smiled sweetly on the disturbed Pickwickian, and extended her hand towards him. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
In the latter part of June he was reported to have said that I would be re-elected, but this was regarded in a Pickwickian sense. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
There was a living distinctness, too, in the Pickwickian. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Manners and Customs] Reference
"Flying the garter" is another of the Pickwickian boy games. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Manners and Customs] Reference
Victorian Era Exhibition a very interesting Pickwickian curio. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Manners and Customs] Reference
Pickwickian would withdraw the expression he had just made use of. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
Pickwickian Inn, and is drawn within the glamour of the legend, and, what. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
Pickwickian who cried "No" so loudly come forward and deny it, if he could. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
In an interesting letter of Dickens '-- Pickwickian ones are rare -- sold at. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Manners and Customs] Reference
I leave it as a pleasant crux for the ingenious Pickwickian to find out where. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Manners and Customs] Reference
A now version has recently been discovered of the old Pickwickian inscription. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916] Reference
Gazette devoted to "Pickwickian, Dickensian and Eatanswillian humour and research.". From Wordnik.com. [The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations,] Reference
Pickwickian enthusiast can ascertain this -- 'an he will -- by a little calculation. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
Pickwickian stranger to meet so appreciative a response, and many curious details were mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
Boz in his Pickwickian names was fond of disguising their sense to the eye, though not to the ear. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Manners and Customs] Reference
The general tone of both is the same and in the modern work there is a general Pickwickian flavour. From Wordnik.com. [Bardell v. Pickwick] Reference
Sir Walter, with real Pickwickian sagacity, points to a true explanation which may be applied in other cases. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast - but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. From Wordnik.com. [A conservative blog for peace] Reference
The truculent Dowler figured before in "The Tuggs at Ramsgate" -- a very amusing and Pickwickian tale -- under the title of Capt. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
I lately looked through the swollen pages of the monster London Directory to find how many of the Pickwickian names were in common use. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
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