poitrinaire

In this, climate, and being 'poitrinaire', one doesn't make experiments.

The Island Pharisees

In this, climate, and being 'poitrinaire', one doesn't make experiments.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

WOLFE was a _poitrinaire_, and NELSON would never have passed the medical examination to which the naval cadets of to-day are subjected.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914

Paris, also a _poitrinaire_, [354] and as this, if not as the other, the pet and protégée, in a _quasi_-honourable fashion, of an old duke, whose daughter, closely resembling Marguerite, has actually died of consumption.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

And comparatively short as his working life proved to be -- hampered for ten years by the sternest poverty, and for nearly ten more by the sad, illusive optimism of the poitrinaire -- the task of the mere surveyor is no light or perfunctory one.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories

With all its gifts and opportunities it was a melancholy life -- melancholy with something not altogether explained by the somewhat pessimistic philosophy exposed in the Journal, nor by the consumptive tendency of Amiel's physical constitution, causing him from a very early date to be much preoccupied with the effort to reconcile himself with the prospect of death, and reinforcing the far from sanguine temperament of one intellectually also a poitrinaire.

Essays from 'The Guardian'

I remember that when he was a candidate for the Assembly, one of the popular cries, as reported by the newspapers of the time, was _A bas le poitrinaire!

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

I remember that when he was a candidate for the Assembly, one of the popular cries, as reported by the newspapers of the time, was _A bas le poitrinaire!

Our Hundred Days in Europe

It was Cytheris, the fickle actress ” if the scholiasts are right ” who opened his eyes to the fact that there were themes for passionate poetry nearer home than the legendary love-tales; and when she forgot him, finding excitement elsewhere during his months of service with Octavian, he nursed his morbid grief in un-Roman self-pity, this first poet of the poitrinaire school.

Vergil