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Wedgecroft, with his physicianly pre-occupation, can attend, understand, sympathise, without looking up at her.

From Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Granville-Barker, Harley

What are you writing? wedgecroft, with his physicianly pre-occupation, can attend, understand, sympathise, without looking up at her. wedgecroft.   Never mind.

From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Granville-Barker, Harley

He says he ain't sick—not physicianly sick; but he jest don't want to talk an' see folks.

From Dawn by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

It was significant how he had left his rôle of authorship at home and came physicianly, brisk and competent.

From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Donnell, Annie Hamilton