What is "dyspeptic"

Usage examples of "dyspeptic".

The Shadow saw him strolling past the spacious breakfast room - Hastings Bleer, a crab-faced man of seventy-five, who seemed to have solved the secret of perpetual youth, despite his dyspeptic look.

Bradshaw expected naturally to see a youth of imperfect constitution, and cachectic or dyspeptic tendencies, who was in training to furnish one of those biographies beginning with the statement that, from his infancy, the subject of it showed no inclination for boyish amusements, and so on, until he dies out, for the simple reason that there was not enough of him to live.

Possibly it was young Augustus Gom, a dyspeptic, and who had married a wife with a Roman nose, fierce blue eyes, and a mouth that was lipless.

A glass case displayed ivory netsuke, a comb and brush set of mother-of-pearl, earrings of black pearl and golden filigree, everything a little chipped, a little shabby, and over it all reigned thin, dyspeptic Agawa at the counter with an abacus, ashtray and pack of Golden Bats.

Hence it became the better part of wisdom to die in the full flower of life, since, for example, a rachitic old man, toothless, short-winded and dyspeptic, could never fully enjoy the banquets, songs and nymphs of paradise.

He received his visitor very pleasantly, expecting, as a matter of course, that he would begin with some new grievance, dyspeptic, neuralgic, bronchitic, or other.

The bench was just to the left, giving the public a close and unexpurgated view of the law, personified this morning at one minute past ten thirty by a rotund stipendiary magistrate with a dyspeptic frown.

The first thing which caught his eyes as he entered the drawing-room before dinner was Argemone listening in absorbed reverence to her favourite vicar,--a stern, prim, close-shaven, dyspeptic man, with a meek, cold smile, which might have become a cruel one.

Ladies Farmoor and Bellser-Bar, and the sullenly dyspeptic attitude of the Invigilator, everyone had seemed pleased, not least the Marshal.

Offerton had chosen that very moment to come out of the chapel, and now stood in the shadow of the porch, a tall, 14 KEN FOLLETT dyspeptic figure in a college gown and mortarboard hat.

Sage, behind his counter, served an elderly lady with dog powders designed, no doubt, for a dyspeptic pug which sat and groaned after the manner of his kind at her feet.

At the end of fifteen days the dyspeptics, the invalid, and the most delicate ladies in the party were chewing sailor-boots in ecstasy, and only complaining because the supply of them was limited.

No sooner had McDougall uttered the words than tourism-industry honchos launched a dyspeptic counterattack.

New York is crammed with dyspeptic millionaires who need an efficient physical instructor to look after them.

This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters.