phthisic

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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

The boatman smiles, Princess Volupine extends A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand To climb the waterstair.

From Poems by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

I suppose, poor half-starved phthisic lad, that he was the most miserable of us all.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund

On the first examination he said he could not account for the statements of his captain and surgeon, unless they arose from a remark he made that he had phthisic when he was small.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

Your doctors of physic May banish the phthisic.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 by Various