What is "salubrity"

Usage examples of "salubrity".

Besides, of what use was her usual patter about the salubrity of the region, since that lady, Madame Seguin, wished to have a nurse at her house?

Druids pour into the wounds of the shepherd, and restore him at once to salubrity and vigour.

We find ourselves in the peaceful possession of the fairest portion of the earth as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate.

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with greater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?

The region to which he retired was famous for its salubrity, and the intense heat of the season effectually forbade much military activity.

But what elated and surprised them most was the remarkable salubrity of the atmosphere.

The captain was on the bow, expatiating to a crowd of listeners on the fertility of the soil and the salubrity of the climate.

But if, as a third and more probable alternative, they succeed in rescuing from the South and from slavery four or five of the finest States of the old Union--and a vast portion of the continent to be beaten by none other in salubrity, fertility, beauty, and political importance--will it not then be admitted that the war has done some good, and that the life and treasure have not been spent in vain?

I am not sure that I did not find a certain mystic salubrity in the bad ventilation.

If this improved condition of better food, better clothing, and--considering the mildness and salubrity of the climate--of better lodging, with abundance of fuel, should fail in improving the moral character and the habits of the convict, then, I grant that the system is bad.

Having heard previously sundry menaces, which had been made by these preposterous and incarnadine individuals of hell, now on trial in prospect of condign punishment, fulminated against the longer continuance of my corporeal salubrity, for no better reason than that I reprobated their criminal orgies, and not wishing my reflections to be disturbed, I hurried my steps with a gradual accelerated motion.

When we are apprised that some few of our middle-aged citizens, who sustained the stroke of that literary scimetar so long ago, still survive among us, I think we may argue from strong data for the salubrity of our climate.

There are about 9000 inhabitants, including a few English families, attracted here by its reputation for salubrity and cheapness of living.

The sky is bright and the weather clear, and the salubrity is shown by the healthy appearance of the population.

That a pest equally malignant had assailed the metropolis of her own country, a town famous for the salubrity of its airs and the perfection of its police, had something in it so wild and uncouth that she could not reconcile herself to the possibility of such an event.