phthisic
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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
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 Sarah Orne Jewett
All sorts of diseases, Whatever you pleases, The phthisic, the palsy, and the gout; If the devil's in, I'll blow him out.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Ernest Rhys
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 Edmund Gosse
Yes, there's considerable of ager and phthisic and bilious fever.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Maurice Thompson
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