"Physicking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Newton was engaged in physicking one of his dogs, named "Beauty" (who, as is well known, destroyed a vast amount of work, and whom he reproved only in these words, "Ah! Beauty, you little know the mischief you have done!"), some strangers called to see ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... Spencer, 'compelled to speak with bated breath' (p. 338) certainly for the first time in my thirty-odd years' acquaintance with him!" My alarm and horror at the supposition that while I had been fiddling (or at any rate physicking), my beloved Rome had been burning, in ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley |
