| Back in the eighties, with his dropsical gut and his bad day with a beer in front of the TV, he was a living rebuke to Jane Fonda and her remorseless workouts, and nothing much has changed. |
| It weighed several tons, and its tyres were like dropsical life-belts. |
| Again, the other valet had long been dropsical, and the valet who died in 1687 died of dropsy. |
| This one was dropsical, the other subject to apoplectic fits. |
| His big and dropsical head, disproportionate to his emaciated body, leans against his mother's shoulder, his eyes blinking weakly. |
| The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, already mentioned as a tavern of a dropsical appearance, had long settled down into a state of hale infirmity. |
