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
You have the phthisic, when I know you have climbed the Rigi and Montanvert, and half the mountains in Switzerland!
From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes
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
Come, now, wasn't my picture of the phthisic wife and moaning child worth a place on the line—I mean, wasn't it good, eh?
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
