And yet, after all, this, and the affair of the small fish, were mere indispositions due to the foreignness of the food to my stomach, which had learned to prosper on seal meat and on nothing but seal meat. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Unfortunately, the padre comisario's apostema returned, along with other "achaques e indisposiciones" ( "ailments and indispositions"), causing him several more months of agony. 94 ❋ Unknown (2008)
American troops in Afghanistan labor under two indispositions which the Petraeus counterinsurgency doctrine never held properly in view. ❋ David Bromwich (2010)
If the superfluities are few and of severe putrefaction, they are followed by fevers, mortal ulcers, rheumatic pains, gout, kidney stones, and mortal indispositions, which although not fatal make life a living death .... ❋ Unknown (2008)
He begins with the trivial and moves to more serious objections, first comparing the inconveniences of motherhood to such “monthly indispositions” as gout and the common cold. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One day Granville, out of patience with these assumed indispositions, destroyed a note of invitation to a ball at the house of a Councillor of State, and gave his wife only a verbal invitation. ❋ Unknown (2007)
How much sloth and negligence, heat and passion, the prevalency of fashion or acquired indispositions do severally contribute, on occasion, to these wrong judgments, I shall not here further inquire. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Beaumont for consolation on the occasion, owned that were their indispositions to gather strength, she should be too ready for her peace of liiind, to charge them to her o\\\\ account. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The world I actually experience is not a world of mere successive stimulus and response; it is a world of structured objects capable of simultaneous interaction however one analyzes this and ordered dispositions and indispositions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But he did not make the weakness of his constitution a pretext for his ease, but rather used war as the best physic against his indispositions; whilst by indefatigable journeys, coarse diet, frequent lodging in the field, and continual laborious exercise, he struggled with his diseases, and fortified his body against all attacks. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
I believe that all the indispositions and weaknesses she has proceed from her always lying in bed or on a sofa; she eats and drinks reclining, through mere idleness; she has not worn stays since the King's death; she never could bring herself to eat with the late King, her own father, still less would she with me. ❋ D'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, Duchesse (2001)
“If appearance and taste lose something here, health gains, and the bourgeois garners the advantages of enjoying a diversity of foods at small expense and of avoiding the indispositions consequent upon an overrefined style of cooking une cuisine trop recherchée.” ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)
I am frequently confined by slight indispositions to which I was always subject. ❋ Unknown (1973)
Are there no indispositions, deadness, and coldness in duties grown upon you? ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
The exercise of it may be variously impeded, by temptations, spiritual indispositions, desertions, and by our own negligence in stirring up the grace of God. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
