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
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was small, rachitic, poor and struggling.
From Time Magazine Archive
A frail, rachitic tyke of a play, with barely enough clothes to cover it, The Male Animal manages to captivate by its impish tongue and winning smile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hardening of the bones is delayed, the development of the skeleton in general is restricted, and deformities of the legs and spinal column are frequent, in addition to the usual rachitic affections.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
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