rachitic
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A sequence of rachitic little drawings by Tracey Emin – whose monoprints are so ubiquitous as to have become museum wallpaper – cannot compete with those of her heroine, Louise Bourgeois.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2012
The man who brought the Royal Canadian Navy up from rachitic infancy to lusty manhood headed this week across the Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before she was three years old, a series of infantile diseases had left Gwen so rachitic and knock-kneed that she could barely walk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every year they travel thousands of miles by train, bus, and paddle steamer to play in some 80 of the rachitic towns along the coasts and in the Australian outback.
From Time Magazine Archive
So she went to the arms of that rachitic prince, and she bore him a son—for, as all the world knows, the Duke of Prastana owns Philip for his father.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
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