phthisic
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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
I do wish these reformers had come around sooner, when I was learning to spell phthisic, syzygy, daguerreotype, and caoutchouc.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
She went before the commissary, but was obliged to return with that 'becco ettico,' as she called the poor man, who had a phthisic.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
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
Yes, there's considerable of ager and phthisic and bilious fever.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Maurice Thompson
