The Lady of Lochleven rose from the bedside, and darted a penetrating look at the elder valetudinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

Governor himself, expressed that settled peevishness and ill temper which characterize the morning hours of a valetudinary debauchee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Geierstein] Reference

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 valetudinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of The Epidemics] Reference

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 valetudinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

Plato, in his "Republic," blames Herodicus (one of the teachers of that great doctor Hippocrates) for showing to delicate, sickly persons, the means whereby to prolong their valetudinary existence, as Herodicus himself (naturally a very rickety fellow) had contrived to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

So saying, he laughed very heartily, and even seemed to enjoy the retaliation which had been exacted at his own expence; but lady Bullford looked very grave; and in all probability thought the lieutenant had carried his resentment too far, considering that her husband was valetudinary — but, according to the proverb, he that will play at bowls must expect to meet with rubbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference

Though valetudinary, he lived to be nearly ninety, and to welcome to Scotland his son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)] Reference

It is still visited by valetudinary people, especially on the 1st of May and the 1st of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles of Strathearn] Reference

She had the misfortune of a very valetudinary constitution, owing, in some measure, probably to the irregularity of her form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]

Constable, though valetudinary, and cross with his partner, is certainly as good a pilot in these rough seas as ever man put faith in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

The indulgence and accommodation which his sickness required, had taught him all the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference

It is worthy of remark, that the Austrian medical officers send the valetudinary among the soldiers to these baths from a very great distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II] Reference

Be pleased to acquaint us how we must behave our selves towards this valetudinary Friendship, subject to so many Heats and Colds, and you will oblige.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spectator, Volume 2.] Reference

This lack of temper probably arose from indifferent health, for he was very valetudinary, and realised two verses, wherein he says fortune assigned him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

The other, that I was now sitting in a damp room, a circumstance, though it had hitherto escaped my notice from the color of the bricks, which was by no means to be neglected in a valetudinary state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1] Reference

I, feeble and valetudinary, with no inducement to engage -- no ability to accomplish -- no weapon wherewith to perpetrate such a fact; -- without interest, without power, without motives, without means!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference

The father, a good-natured, silly valetudinary, abandons the management of his household to Emma, he himself being only occupied by his summer and winter walk, his apothecary, his gruel, and his whist table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Reviews] Reference

It produces a weak valetudinary state of body, attended by all those horrid disorders, and yet more horrid methods of cure, which are the result of luxury on the one hand, and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)] Reference

In the earliest years of his youth, he applied himself with ardour to the pursuit of the sister arts, poetry, drawing and music, in each of which by turns, he made a considerable progress; but for the most part pursued these and other polite studies, only as agreeable amusements, under frequent confinement from indisposition, and a valetudinary state of health.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]

But here is a streak of new light upon him: "Monsieur St. Euvremont makes thus his potage de santé of boiled meat for dinner being very valetudinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference

He was a man of high accomplishments, equally qualified for the cabinet or field, and on this account the King, liis fath. er, being aged and infirm, made this his son, governor of Scotland in his own life time; and his elder brother King Robert III. after his accession to the crown, being likewise valetudinary, thought fit to continue him in the regency, and dignified him with the title of DuLe of Albany in 1399.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

309): -- 'The indulgence and accommodation which his sickness required had taught him all the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference

309): ” 'The indulgence and accommodation which his sickness required had taught him all the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]