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
It give me dyspepsy just to think of it.
From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.
"An' if ye eat too much it only brings on the dyspepsy."
From From Farm to Fortune or Nat Nason's Strange Experience by Alger, Horatio
No, any dinner I'd get would give you compound, gallopin' dyspepsy, and I can't be responsible for your death—I love you too much.
From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.
This I knew was, from the confined air, prejudicial to my health; but what was dyspepsy or consumption to that little hard-faced old gentleman—to those breeches—to that broad-brimmed hat—to those buckles—to that gold-headed cane?
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
