dropsical

The whole business started to feel a little dropsical.

Its large eyes appeared young and unhealthy, almost dropsical.

He suffers from shortness of breath and has become dropsical.

Dropsical it certainly is, for it will hold a dozen passengers inside.

He was dropsical, that appears in the official correspondence, and the dead prisoner died of dropsy.

He is dropsical with authority, if you like.'

These dropsical patients can be quite difficult."

A dropsical fiddle is no good, no how.

For thirty seconds he sat immobile, staring at his hands, which appeared increasingly dropsical with overload.

Those men are dropsical with authority, permanently deranged, I must go.' '

Foy suffered from "dropsical trouble" during the last two years of his life and was eventually confined to the home.

Or that uses the phrase "dropsical dame."

No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors.

Again, the other valet had long been dropsical, and the valet who died in 1687 died of dropsy.

Kenneth Tynan, for one, dismissed the play as "a clever fragment grown dropsical with symbolic content."

The rain lashed and swished and emptied down, drinking the drab land with a dropsical passion.

"A tavern of dropsical appearance... long settled down into a state of hale infirmity.

The Slider was in bed, a monstrously corpulent figure sagging the mattress, his dropsical face bluish.

She grumbled a little bit to Shenshen, who sat in a straightback chair to one side, looking dropsical.

Ascites was pronounced and the dropsical fluid had gathered till the pressure was intense.

Dropsical Diseases of Plants.

Moving like an ancient dropsical woman, Cinnilla dragged herself into the room and went to sit at Caesar's side on the couch.

I'm so weak, I'm like a dish-rag, and I'm getting dropsical, too."

His health failed in 1768, owing to a 'dropsical asthma,' and he retired in the autumn to Haverfordwest.

If Rubens's women are ample, Jordaens's are dropsical.