city-dyspeptics

Updated: June 26, 2025

Then, in these low-hill valleys of the Alleghanies the sun pours its hottest, most life-breeding glow, and even the wintry wind puts all its vigor into the blast, knowing that there are no lachrymose, whey-skinned city-dyspeptics to inhale it, but full-breasted, strong-muscled women and men, with narrow brains, maybe, but big, healthy hearts, and physique to match.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863