phthisic

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

He corned for us ten minutes behind the town clock, and Mammy Dilsie had phthisic, so I had to fix the two twins, and we're done left.

From The Tinder-Box by Daviess, Maria Thompson

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 Holmes, Mary Jane

Them was our brag-words, phthisic and asthma was.

From Sonny, a Christmas Guest by Stuart, Ruth McEnery

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 Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle