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salubrious
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  • Don't know anything about the north, but am altogether salubrious and balmy, hey, my lady?"†   (source)
  • Also I think of changing my residence for a time: probably I shall close or let 'The Shrubs,' and take some place near the coast—under advice of course as to salubrity.†   (source)
  • The better, Mr. Harthouse gave him to understand as they shook hands, for the salubrious air of Coketown.†   (source)
  • Decision, salubrity, jocosity, prosperity, seem to hover within his call; he is evidently a practical man, but the idea in his case, has undefined and mysterious boundaries, which invite the imagination to bestir itself on his behalf.†   (source)
  • His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun.†   (source)
  • 'Sir,' said Mr. Micawber, 'I rejoice to reply that they are, likewise, in the enjoyment of salubrity.'†   (source)
  • To these flourishing resolutions, which briefly recounted the general utility of education, the political and geographical rights of the village of Templeton to a participation in the favors of the regents of the university, the salubrity of the air, and wholesomeness of the water, together with the cheapness of food and the superior state of morals in the neighbor hood, were uniformly annexed, in large Roman capitals, the names of Marmaduke Temple as chairman and Richard Jones as…†   (source)
  • We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.†   (source)
  • If such superb white flowers as that could bloom in Catholic soil, the soil was not insalubrious.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insalubrious means not and reverses the meaning of salubrious. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • …from the ground, mixing together all those different emanations, unites them into a stack, so to say, and combining with the electricity diffused through the atmosphere, when there is any, might in the long run, as in tropical countries, engender insalubrious miasmata—this heat, I say, finds itself perfectly tempered on the side whence it comes, or rather whence it should come—that is to say, the southern side—by the south-eastern winds, which, having cooled themselves passing over the…†   (source)
  • A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insalubrity means not and reverses the meaning of salubrity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • Therefore Mahbub had avoided halting at the insalubrious city of Peshawur, and had come through without stop to Lahore, where, knowing his country-people, he anticipated curious developments.†   (source)
  • He would have let the house, but could find no tenant, in consequence of its ineligible and insalubrious site.†   (source)
  • As I looked out of the coach window, and observed that an old house on Fish-street Hill, which had stood untouched by painter, carpenter, or bricklayer, for a century, had been pulled down in my absence; and that a neighbouring street, of time-honoured insalubrity and inconvenience, was being drained and widened; I half expected to find St. Paul's Cathedral looking older.†   (source)
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