hypochondriac

This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his jaw have relaxed, leaving him there in that ungainly sort of plight, a reproach to all his tribe, who must, no doubt, imprecate lock-jaws upon him.

Headly Chivers, and the Countess have conversed with that amiable hypochondriac, Mr.

He was clearly a confirmed hypochondriac, and I was dreamily conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms, and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable quack nostrums, some of which he bore about in a leather case in his pocket.

So long as Colin shut himself up in his room and thought only of his fears and weakness and his detestation of people who looked at him and reflected hourly on humps and early death, he was a hysterical half-crazy little hypochondriac who knew nothing of the sunshine and the spring and also did not know that he could get well and could stand upon his feet if he tried to do it.

I wish he would come!" I exclaimed, seized with hypochondriac foreboding.

Why, I know one case in which a hypochondriac, a man of forty, cut the throat of a little boy of eight, because he couldn't endure the jokes he made every day at table!

To do him justice, I believe he thinks me a hypochondriac of the first water; but that young man will go far if he keeps on the wicket.

The Hypochondriac opens at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, on Monday and runs until November 19.

Catherine thought she was becoming a hypochondriac - and her concerns grew when she struggled to become pregnant and then suffered the devastation of a miscarriage.