dyspepsy

Example Sentences

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Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas."

From Time Magazine Archive

She ought to be a good housekeeper, an' a good cook, so 's not to kill that pore child with dyspepsy.

From The Uncalled A Novel by Dunbar, Paul Laurence

And the way I figger it, not havin' vittles reg'lar has give me dyspepsy, and dyspepsy has made me cranky, and not safe to be squdged too fur.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

"Well, I dunno!—I suppose my dyspepsy has made me kind o' irritable," he said by way of apology.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

"You an' your nervis dyspepsy be drowned in the Whale-hole," roared Uncle Salters, a fat and tubly little man.

From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard