phthisic
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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
What you are about I cannot guess, even from your date;—not dauncing to the sound of the gitourney in the Halls of the Lowthers? one of whom is here, ill, poor thing, with a phthisic.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
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 Edmund Gosse
Then Dilsie could sleep in the cabin, as she ought to on account of the jimsonweed in her phthisic pipe.
From The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess
The boatman smiles, Princess Volupine extends A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand To climb the waterstair.
From Poems by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
