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  • Because of a kind of scientific superstition he never worked, or read, or bathed, or made love until two hours of digestion had gone by, and it was such a deep-rooted belief that several times he held up military operations so as not to submit the troops to the risks of indigestion.†   (source)
  • LuLing, Art, Ruth, and various cousins were sitting poolside in the backyard—or lanai, as Auntie Gal referred to it—where Uncle Edmund had fired up a grill to barbecue enough slabs of spare ribs to give everyone indigestion.†   (source)
  • It made the sound of iron indigestion.†   (source)
  • "Indigestion," she murmurs, patting her belly.†   (source)
  • Someone who would deny fiercely that there had been any concern—just a little indigestion from them fried onions that kept me from sleeping.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was the idea of Andy, but somehow they gave me indigestion.†   (source)
  • I seem to have a touch of indigestion.†   (source)
  • Horrible, fluffy things that give me hair balls and indigestion .†   (source)
  • The sleep stuff or the indigestion?†   (source)
  • Milo would make them strong, Pilu would give them a magic voice, and I would give them...indigestion.†   (source)
  • So Hufsa went away with Prince Rainbow and El-ahrairah's people were left in peace, apart from indigestion brought on by eating too many carrots.†   (source)
  • Sure, the idea of matching costumes had given him indigestion at first, but Vlad was quickly catching on to this having a girlfriend thing.†   (source)
  • She carne in smiling big at two farmers who wanted Papa to extend credit for a new mule, and then greeted Mr. Cratic Flournoy, who was complaining of indigestion.†   (source)
  • It would serve you right if you had an acute attack of indigestion.†   (source)
  • I would probably have indigestion if I ate one-now that I no longer felt ashamed of the things I had always loved, I probably could no longer digest very many of them.†   (source)
  • Thought I had a touch of indigestion, you know, until the bleeding started up.†   (source)
  • It's just that you always get indigestion afterward.†   (source)
  • The thought of backtracking and searching all the cozy little homes and luxury hideaways of David Angelini was giving her a bad case of indigestion.†   (source)
  • I feel within me the manifest prognostics of indigestion.†   (source)
  • And if indigestion it is, we can always dose him.†   (source)
  • In fact it was nothing—indigestion, the doctors decided six hours later, and he was sent home along with all four of his children, the other three having assembled at the hospital as soon as Nora phoned them.†   (source)
  • During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.†   (source)
  • No one else in the world could without dying of indigestion.†   (source)
  • She added, "I have the feeling he suffers from indigestion," and drummed her breast while she swallowed.†   (source)
  • They may eat you as well, brave brother, but I trust you'll give them indigestion.†   (source)
  • But not like before from severe indigestion.†   (source)
  • The council had called Grover's performance on the quest "Brave to the point of indigestion.†   (source)
  • He said: "Spicy food gives me indigestion."†   (source)
  • Her indigestion was gone, like a bad guest.†   (source)
  • The stuff of my indigestion, perhaps.†   (source)
  • Did you know the monstrous squid is the only beast known to eat demigods whole, armor and all, without getting indigestion?†   (source)
  • His favorite job was caring for Hannibal the elephant, but he'd managed to mess that up, too—giving Hannibal indigestion by feeding him peanuts.†   (source)
  • Indigestion.†   (source)
  • He became the animal he knew best—the one he'd cared for, fed, bathed, and even given indigestion to at Camp Jupiter.†   (source)
  • And Manx has a stale acid feeling, that fidgety indigestion where you drink too much on an empty stomach, even though he knows he ate a meal he recalls the dish Ivie left him, he tastes the meat loaf and greens, but there's a wrenching pull like he's all sucked dry.†   (source)
  • We were constantly taking bicarbonate of soda for indigestion.†   (source)
  • Francon had indigestion, so I went there as his representative.†   (source)
  • We won't have a business career-we've given that up because it gave us nervous indigestion!†   (source)
  • LAURA: Well, not very-well-I had to drop out, it gave me-indigestion— [Jim laughs gently.†   (source)
  • He suffered from indigestion.†   (source)
  • Twice in a house where no one ever forgets to say "Pardon me," or gets indigestion, or neglects to have a clean handkerchief!†   (source)
  • Because there was still no warrant for him, you see: it was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion; and now other horsemen rode into the square and became aware of the situation, so that there was quite a posse waiting when he walked out onto the gallery.†   (source)
  • He took a long pull at it, with his eyes on the impassive child, the baked street, the vultures moving in the sky like indigestion spots.†   (source)
  • Or a soul-indigestion?†   (source)
  • But there was no grave: there was nobody there: an appalling sense of loneliness came over Mr Tench, doubling him with indigestion.†   (source)
  • 'It's indigestion,' Mr Tench said.†   (source)
  • Just indigestion.†   (source)
  • "No; indigestion," I retorted, and continued my walk as if nothing untoward had occurred.†   (source)
  • You haven't—you've only got indigestion.†   (source)
  • She's been going to him for weeks, and he's treated her for heart and indigestion.†   (source)
  • She had nausea and indigestion, but she kept on with her work.†   (source)
  • Say it's only indigestion, say so, Mary!†   (source)
  • I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers—ambition and indigestion.†   (source)
  • Indigestion is charged by the good God with preaching morality to stomachs.†   (source)
  • He seemed suffering from an unusually bad night's rest, induced by severer indigestion then common.†   (source)
  • "If people of my age WILL eat chicken-salad in the evening what are they to expect?" she enquired; and, the doctor having opportunely modified her dietary, the stroke was transformed into an attack of indigestion.†   (source)
  • And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind.†   (source)
  • Pilchuck, who suffered with indigestion, made sarcastic remarks about Tom's cooking, and the other men were vociferous in their disapproval.†   (source)
  • The lack, in Lady Caroline's face, of any sense of evil, except the evil wrought by cowardly Provencal girls and stupid police, confounded him; yet he had long concluded that certain classes of English people lived upon a concentrated essence of the anti-social that, in comparison, reduced the gorgings of New York to something like a child contracting indigestion from ice cream.†   (source)
  • It was drawled out, broken by shouts from the neighboring tables, by mechanical love-making to the waitress, by stertorous grunts as the coffee filled him with dizziness and indigestion.†   (source)
  • Then arose a slim, melancholy girl, whose face had the "interesting" paleness that comes of pills and indigestion, and read a "poem."†   (source)
  • "It's evident—parbleu!" he continued; "for, make up your mind as much as you like, even a simple headache or a fit of indigestion (un derangement d'estomac) is enough to ...Take me, for instance—I have made my proofs.†   (source)
  • Had you come into the room you might have supposed the old man had unpleasant dreams or perhaps indigestion.†   (source)
  • "Do you mean to say," said Sloane stolidly, "that 'cause you had some sort of indigestion that made you act like a maniac last night, you're never coming on Broadway again?"†   (source)
  • Bad indigestion?†   (source)
  • It is indigestion, no doubt?†   (source)
  • To convince Carp of his mistake, so that he would have to eat his own words with a good deal of indigestion, would be an agreeable accident of triumphant authorship, which the prospect of living to future ages on earth and to all eternity in heaven could not exclude from contemplation.†   (source)
  • The sharp reprimand was not lost upon her, and in time it came to pass that for "fay" she said "succeed"; that she no longer spoke of "dumbledores" but of "humble bees"; no longer said of young men and women that they "walked together," but that they were "engaged"; that she grew to talk of "greggles" as "wild hyacinths"; that when she had not slept she did not quaintly tell the servants next morning that she had been "hag-rid," but that she had "suffered from indigestion."†   (source)
  • And if Mr. Ned Land did not repent of his gluttony at our oyster fest, it's because oysters are the only dish that never causes indigestion.†   (source)
  • There an't better land in the country than this perwerse lad grazed on, and yet he goes and catches cold and indigestion and what not, and then his friends brings a lawsuit against ME!†   (source)
  • Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.†   (source)
  • He had no theory with regard to cold bathing or the use of Indian clubs; he was neither an oarsman, a rifleman, nor a fencer—he had never had time for these amusements—and he was quite unaware that the saddle is recommended for certain forms of indigestion.†   (source)
  • In truth, it turned out to be one of those problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving their defunct bodies almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil.†   (source)
  • 'And you awoke, and found you were lying on your back, or with your head hanging over the bedside, or suffering some pain from indigestion?' said Ralph.†   (source)
  • Indigestion and the digest.†   (source)
  • No, it's only indigestion?†   (source)
  • It was fortunate for me that, owing to its peculiar cause—indigestion—the irritability and consequent nervousness of Nippers, were mainly observable in the morning, while in the afternoon he was comparatively mild.†   (source)
  • The indigestion seemed betokened in an occasional nervous testiness and grinning irritability, causing the teeth to audibly grind together over mistakes committed in copying; unnecessary maledictions, hissed, rather than spoken, in the heat of business; and especially by a continual discontent with the height of the table where he worked.†   (source)
  • I know of nothing more purgative of winter fumes and indigestions.†   (source)
  • Since these plots were set in agitation, I have had nothing but hurried journeys, indigestions, blows and bruises, imprisonments and starvation; besides that they can only end in the murder of some thousands of quiet folk.†   (source)
  • Thinking I would give Jamie time to recover, both from pique and indigestion, I stayed in my own room most of the next day, reading an herbal Brother Ambrose had provided me.†   (source)
  • Bursting with money and indigestion.†   (source)
  • Seventhly, it is an argument of Indigestion, when Greek and Latine Sentences unchewed come up again, as they use to doe, unchanged.†   (source)
  • To attain to eminence in letters costs a man time, watching, hunger, nakedness, headaches, indigestions, and other things of the sort, some of which I have already referred to.†   (source)
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