phthisic
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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
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
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 Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
Eunice'll hev her hands full this winter, I guess, with them three hearty children 'n' him all wheezed up with phthisic from October to April!...
From The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
She put it on her knee, and played a tune that would have made gout, cholic and phthisic dance upon their last legs.
From Peg Woffington by Charles Reade
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