phthisic

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

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

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 Pearson, Francis B.

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

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

It always eases her phthisic to git up here on the high land, an' I've got a new notion about doin' over her best-room carpet sence I see her that'll save rippin' one breadth.

From The Life of Nancy by Jewett, Sarah Orne