DoCTOR: Looks like a case of the marthambles. I'm prescribing a course of azoth for you. You: Will that fix me up? DoCTOR (AFTER A PAUSE): Well, ...
... known only to my friend the famous Dr Tufts, whom you all know, as the hockogrocles, marthambles, the moon-pall and the strong-fives: take a vomit.
If you can manage an attack of the Marthambles, we could persuade one to say an incantation over you. You would then be anointed with infallible ...
Thus, marthambles was a nonexistent disease invented to help advertise the virtues of a probably useless medicine. Maturin uses the term in the sense of a ...
“I shall avoid succumbing to the Marthambles,” Chancellor said. “Are their remedies all so alluring?” “Take your pick,” Lymond said.
Thus , marthambles was a nonexistent disease invented to help advertise the virtues of a probably useless medicine . Maturin uses the term in the sense of a ...
A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian—or Stephen Maturin—could devise.
Ralph and his pal Jim are a pair of cheap and lazy college dropouts.
"You will meet nothing like O'Brian in all literature, and the sooner you make his acquaintance the better for all of us. He is one of the very few writers ever who not only entertain us vastly but alter us morally". -- Chicago Sun-Times
The names of these new Distempers ( he announced ) are : The Strong Fives , The Moon Pall , The Marthambles , and The Hockgrockle . ” One can imagine the scene at the Chapter Coffeehouse when an eminent divine , asked by a friend the ...