The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue.

The valetudinarian habit of discussing his health had grown on Rose[…]

True Madam there are Valetudinarians in Reputation as well as constitution—who being conscious of their weak Part, avoid the least breath of air, and supply their want of Stamina by care and circumspection

The most uninformed mind, with a healthy body, is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

The cuisine, of course, would not be such as would raise water bubbles in the mouth of a valetudinarian; the carnivorous propensity will mostly be gratified by steak which, when cut, will resemble the Mudhook Yacht Club burgee of rouge et noir; and savory soups and luscious salmon will be luxuries only obtainable in "cannister" form.

Are you a mere valetudinarian, my dear Ladyship, or some prolific mendicant whose bewitched offspring she hopes I can return to human shape?

She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self-centered valetudinarian.

Valetudinarian

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