invalidism

• “There is no romance in invalidism, and I do not welcome this weakness.”

  Spock, Obama, the Kwisatz Haderach, and decriminalizing evolution.

• “When I am striding about the hills here I really feel as if my invalidism were a mere piece of malingering.”

  Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3

• “Froebels; while her invalidism is a complex problem, she has turned to man in her diseases.”

  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

• “It was evident that something must be done speedily to save Phillida from a decline that might end in death, or from that chronic invalidism which is almost worse.”

  The Faith Doctor A Story of New York

• “Europeans, it is the same here as it is in India, the habit of drinking freely of spirituous liquors is universal, and one half the invalidism which is attributed to climate should be ascribed to indulgence in hard drinking.”

  Due West or Round the World in Ten Months

• “By abolishing official charity and substituting a non-contributary system of old age pensions, a general system of insurance by the State of all its members against unemployment and invalidism ...”

  Becoming a Socialist Nation | Heretical Ideas Magazine

• “Julia Foraker, a political wife of the Gilded Age, was born in rural Ohio in 1847, when, as she puts it, the only careers available to a woman were "the home or invalidism.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Little-Known Gold From the Gilded Age

• “Meanwhile, his chronic invalidism of body and purse does not too much affect him.”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

• “He wasn't a man to take kindly to invalidism and the fact that he would have to slow down a little because of his heart wouldn't prevent him doing exactly what he wanted.”

  Fictionaut: You Don't Take Names

• “The other is the competitive invalidism the Eliots have instead of a marriage.”

  Archive 2009-12-01

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