phthisic

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

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 Gosse, Edmund

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 Train, Arthur Cheny

Your doctors of physic May banish the phthisic.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 by Various

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 Rhys, Ernest