phthisic
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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
All sorts of diseases, Whatever you pleases, The phthisic, the palsy, and the gout; If the devil's in, I'll blow him out.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Ernest Rhys
Eunice'll hev her hands full this winter, I guess, with them three hearty children 'n' him all wheezed up with phthisic from October to April!...
From The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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
Them was our brag-words, phthisic and asthma was.
From Sonny, a Christmas Guest by Ruth McEnery Stuart
