Their appetites were always with them and on edge, so that they bit voraciously into whatever offered and with an entire innocence of
indigestion.
He was nervous and bilious and suffered tortures from
indigestion which made him often gloomy and miserable.
"Just the same I'd sooner be myself than have book
indigestion. An' as for Saxon, why, one kiss of her lips is worth more'n all the libraries in the world."
Besides, you forget, Caesar, an
indigestion declares itself immediately, while a prick or a bite occasions a delay of a day or two.' Caesar gave way before such cogent reasoning, and the cardinals were consequently invited to dinner.
If it was necessary to walk to a remote spot, he walked, but he had never known himself to "exercise." 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. He was by inclination a temperate man; but he had supped the night before his visit to the Louvre at the Cafe Anglais--some one had told him it was an experience not to be omitted--and he had slept none the less the sleep of the just.
"I was, sire, even if it were nothing more than an
indigestion," said Colbert; "for people do not give their sovereigns such banquets as the one of to-day, unless it be to stifle them beneath the burden of good living." Colbert awaited the effect this coarse jest would produce upon the king; and Louis XIV., who was the vainest and the most fastidiously delicate man in his kingdom, forgave Colbert the joke.
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.
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.
'Food items should be consumed with patience to avoid
indigestion,' he advised.
Indigestion literally means impaired digestion and most people at some time in their lives will experience it.
Certain medicines a doctor prescribes can have side effects that may upset your stomach and cause
indigestion, diarrhoea or constipation.