A person with pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Examples for "consumptive "
Examples for "consumptive "
1 Domini thought she looked consumptive , and was bitterly disappointed in her appearance.
2 It seems Miss Wooler's school is in a consumptive state of health.
3 Another lad, a consumptive was sentenced the same day for two years.
4 He was waiting for his consumptive wife to die to marry me.
5 The fifth was hardly more than a boy, long, thin, obviously consumptive .
1 The way I feel right now, I'd suck on his tubercular handkerchief.
2 But the tubercular French soldiers are the saddest looking men in Europe.
3 I'm tubercular with confidence, convinced we're going to succeed in our mission.
4 The separation of the tubercular from the healthy cows must be complete.
5 On examination, both organs were found to be full of tubercular bacilli.
1 The undertaker down-town is a lunger , and a nervous wreck to boot.
2 How do you feel? He spits on Gorg, a luscious thick lunger .
3 There's nothing the matter with her, except that she's a lunger 's wife.
4 There was, of course, the Eugenie Schumann-Marie Fil - lunger connection.
5 If he was a " lunger " he wanted to die as soon as possible.
6 I saw at once that you weren't a ' lunger . '
7 I have a six-cylinder brain and he has a one - lunger , but they operate on like principles.
8 Whenever you strike a suspicious character out here he's either a ' one - lunger ' or a 'remittance man.'
9 He hawked, rolled down his window, and spat an extremely large yellow-green lunger into the rainy air.
10 New lunger is here, young, good-looking.
11 Well, she's our latest social sensation... sister of some rich lunger that recently hit town; therefore very important.
12 You know what a lunger is?
13 We could get a professor in here cheap-a lunger , maybe-toclassify 'em, and then we'd send out our own salesman.
15 Eddie tried to wipe the lunger off with his good arm, but even that little movement made the pain flare again.
16 It's a lunger bound for the lakes, and some one gave him a twist as to the track an' we caught 'im.
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