And it can be costive, which is the last thing she needs with that wound in her stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Funeral In Blue]

I've heard that before, to mean drunk, but not costive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

The animal becomes costive, and the shivering fits recur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

I have made a soap-boiler costive; it was my masterpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duchess of Malfi] Reference

Of course, it was of the nature of a ‘Q’ to be costive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference

Larkin had the reputation of being the most costive of artists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homage to Philip Larkin] Reference

The pulse is small, feeble and frequent, and the bowels costive.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference

Figs cooked in milk make an excellent drink for costive persons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, without being costive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Much needless alarm is often felt by persons on account of a costive state of the bowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference

I had a case of a calf that got very costive -- so bad that it moaned dreadfully from pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference

An egg may be taken at this meal by those luxuriously inclined, and if not of a costive habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes] Reference

When a lady who is nursing is habitually costive, she ought to eat brown instead of white bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

A costive state of the bowels is common in pregnancy; a mild laxative is therefore occasionally necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The effects would have been comic but for a costive sobriety that seemed to have swept the City like an infection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

Although the bowels in pregnancy are generally costive, they are sometimes in an opposite state, and are relaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The active circulation of the digestive fluids ceases, and the sufferer is said to be costive or to have chronic diarrhea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

When a child vomits, or has a diarrhoea, or is costive and feverish, it is owing to some derangement, and needs attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

Sometimes the patient is costive, and has been so for several days, the dysentery coming on without being preceded by looseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference

The third day, the patient was packed twice, and had four baths, and the bowels being costive, an injection of tepid water in the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference

Tom is very costive about trees, and talks only of 300 poplars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)] Reference

He took no other medicine, except a little rhubarb when costive.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

Australia, and all the rest of them -- to our costive habits of body.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Wind] Reference

If the bowels still become costive, give daily 1 ounce sulphate of soda and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

A dog should never be suffered to remain costive more than a couple of days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Such fruits, if the bowels be in a costive state, will be particularly useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference

"Why, yes, sir, I believe he is a clever youth enough," was the costive answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story] Reference

He was disinclined to move; his belly was hard and hot, and he was supposed to be costive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

On the 15th, being costive, she took a jallap purge, and on the 24th she was discharged cured.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

Digital. to be taken every night, and as he was costive, jallap made a part of the composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference