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To guard a city, which, once dropsied with grandeur, has now shrunk with the disease into comparative atrophy; a city, which, having boastfully demanded their aid, has now abandoned them for miles.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

Behind her, high the silvered summit slopes Of strength and faith, she will not turn to view; But towards the cave of weakness, harsh of hue, She goes, where all the dropsied horror ropes.

From The Garden of Dreams by Cawein, Madison J.

She gropes and hobbies, where the dropsied rocks Are hairy with the lichens and the twist Of knotted wolf's-bane, mumbling in the mist, Hawk-nosed and wrinkle-eyed with scrawny locks.

From The Garden of Dreams by Cawein, Madison J.

He was still autocrat of the basement, dropsied with the favor of colonels and generals, deferential to "folks," but a past-master in taking liberties with things.

From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo