Word: gout
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...write on some subjects I have come to the sage conclusion that you are suffering from the gout...
...Argent and Vert" is another failure. It suggests an attempt to amuse the assembled company despite toothache or gout. Its conclusion loses what force it may have had in the original in antidiluvian times, largely because the translator seems incapable of excluding any words seeking admittance and employment after the gates should close...
...medicinal springs at Aix are famed for their efficiency in curing eczema, rheumatism, catarrh, gout, and scrofula...
...hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another; played one of his polo-like strokes-was off again. The two dotards looked at each other. Without a word, but trembling slightly, they turned and began to hurry as fast as their gout-stiffened limbs would carry them, toward the clubhouse. Who but a thief or a nonmember would run around the course as if he were afraid of his shadow? Who but a rumdum or a simpleton would play his ball without taking a stance? It was clearly a matter to be reported...
...Although one swallow does not make a summer, one tophus makes gout and one crescent malaria...